Xiaoming Fu

Xiaoming Fu is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and Founding Director of the Sino-German Institute of Social Computing. He earned a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University (2000) and has held academic positions at TU Berlin (2000-2002) and the University of Göttingen since 2002. His research spans mobile computing, social computing, cloud computing, big data analysis, and networked systems, with a focus on (mobile) social networks, Internet of Things, and software-defined networking.

• Education: Ph.D. (2000) from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
• Key Positions: Founding Director, Sino-German Institute of Social Computing (2015-present); University Professor and Head of Computer Networks Group (2007-present); Assistant Professor (2002-2007); DAAD Visiting Professor at Columbia University (2008-2009); Fulbright Scholar at UCLA (2009).
• Editorial Leadership: Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Social Computing and ACM Transactions on Social Computing; served on editorial boards of IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Magazine, and others.
• Research Leadership: Principal Investigator for EU FP6-ENABLE, FP7-GreenICN, H2020 COSAFE, and MobileCloud projects; coordinator of EU H2020 ICN2020 and CleanSky projects.
• Leadership in Professional Organizations: Vice Chair of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Computer Communications (2010-2012); Chair of IEEE Communications Society and Internet Society Internet Technical Committee (2011-2013); founding co-chair of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Germany Chapter.
• Honors and Awards: IEEE Fellow (2022), ACM Distinguished Member (2021), Member of acatech (2024), Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (2017), and more.