Stephen Yau

Professor Stephen Yau is a faculty member at Arizona State University's School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, where he has worked since 1994. He previously served as Walter P. Murphy Professor and Chair at Northwestern University and as Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Florida.

• Education: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois (1961)

Stephen Yau's research focuses on adaptive service-based systems, cloud computing, software engineering, and security in ubiquitous computing environments. His work emphasizes Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring, privacy-preserving mechanisms, and context-aware middleware.

His publications include pioneering research on service composition, workflow adaptation, and security policy reconciliation. These works span themes like mobile ad-hoc networks, distributed trust models, and autonomic computing.

• Specical Award of the IEEE Computer Society, 2006
• Overseas Outstanding Contributions Award of the Chinese Computer Federation, 2006
• Tsutomu Kanai Award of the IEEE Computer Society, 2002
• The IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000
• Special Award of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies, 1990
• Extraordinary Achievement Award of the IEEE, 1985
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1983
• Richard E. Merwin Award of IEEE Computer Society, 1981

Stephen Yau has advised numerous students and received grants from NSF, DOD, and companies like Hitachi and Fujitsu. He directs ASU's Information Assurance Center and serves on editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Services Computing and the Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing.