Prof. Dr. I-Shyan Hwang received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Electronic Engineering from Chung-Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, in 1991 and 1994, respectively. Since  February 2007, he has worked as a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Yuan-Ze University, Chung-Li, Taiwan. His current research interests are high-speed networks, fixed mobile convergence, heterogeneous multimedia services over fiber optic networks, optical green computing, NGN, and optical-network-based infrastructure over cloud computing. Dr. Hwang served on the Editorial Board of the Springer Photonic Network Communications Journal, and served as Guest Editor of the special issue “Software-Defined Optical Network” for the Photonics Journal.