Dr. Jerry Gao is a professor at San Jose State University. Now, he is the director of the SJSU Research Center on Smart Technology, Computing, and Complex Systems. Since 2020, he has served as the Steering Committee Board Chair for the IEEE International Congress on Intelligent Service-Oriented Systems Engineering (IEEECISOSE) and as a Steering Committee Board Member for the IEEE Smart World Congress. In the last 10 years, he has been a key organizer for many international conferences and workshops, including IEEEAITest2021, IEEE BigDataService 2020, IEEE Smart World Congress 2017, IEEE Smart City Innovation 2017, SEKE2011, IEEE MobileCloud 2013, and IEEE SOSE2010-2011. His current research areas include cyber-physical systems for smart cities, smart agriculture, wildfire science, intelligent test automation, mobile cloud computing, and services. His research and publications receive many citations in the research community; for example, his Google Scholar citations are over 7400. In 2010, he was recognized by the University of Texas at Arlington as a distinguished Alumna of the College of Engineering on its 50th anniversary. In 2011, he was awarded a KSI Fellowship in SEKE2011. In 2013, he received the College of Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in scholarship. Recently, he has been recommended for and listed as Marquis’s American Who's Who 2020–2021 and Marquis’s Industry Leaders in 2021.