Hai Jin is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering from HUST in 1994. In 1996, he was awarded the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship at the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany. He worked for the University of Hong Kong between 1998 and 2000 and participated in the HKU Cluster Project. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California between 1999 and 2000. He is the chief scientist of ChinaGrid, the largest grid computing project in China.

Dr. Jin is a member of IEEE and ACM. He is the Associate Editor of The International Journal of Grid and Web Services, The International Journal of Computer and Applications, and The Journal of Computer Science and Technology. He is the executive member and region coordinator of the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC). He is a technical committee member of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) for parallel and distributed computing and systems. He is the steering committee member of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), and served as a program vice-chair of the CCGrid'01, PDCAT'03, and NPC'04; and a program chair of GCC'04. He served as conference chairs for the International Workshop on Internet Computing and E-Commerce from 2001 to 2003. He also served on program committees for more than 50 international conferences and workshops. He has co-authored four books and published over 120 research papers. His research interests include cluster computing and grid computing, network storage, network security, and fault tolerance. Hai Jin can be reached at hjin@hust.edu.cn.