Shiyong Lu (吕世勇) Associate Professor Director, SWR Laboratory Department of Computer Science Wayne State University 5143 Cass Ave Detroit, Michigan 48202, U.S.A.

Office: 430 State Hall Lab: 318 State Hall Phone:313--577--1667(O), 577--6711(L) Fax: 313--577--6868 Email: shiyong@wayne.edu

"Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name." – Psalm 1:1

Short biography

Dr. Shiyong Lu is the director of the Scientific Workflow Research (SWR) Laboratory, one of the leading research groups in the area of scientific workflow (what is scientific workflow?) in North America. Dr. Lu received his Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2002. Before that, he received his M.E. from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing in 1996 and B.E. from the University of Science and Technology of China at Hefei in 1993. Dr. Lu's research interests focus on scientific workflows and their applications. Dr. Lu is an author of one book and over 80 articles published in various international journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). He is a member of IEEE.

Research

• Scientific workflow management systems (SWFMSs)
• Scientific workflow application systems (SWFASs)
• Selected publications | List of publications at DBLP
• Demo of the VIEW system (to be open-sourced)

Teaching

• Fall 2009: CSC6710: Database Management I | CSC4710: Information System Design

Selected professional services

• Founding and current workshop chair of IEEE 2009 Third International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF2009), in conjunction with ICWS09.
• Guest editor of the Special Issue on Scientific Workflows, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, due 7/1/2009.
• Recent program committee members: ICWS 2009, SCC 2009, CLOUD 2009, SERVICES 2009.

Current Ph.D. students

1. Cui Lin

2. Xubo Fei

3. Jamal Ali Alhiyafi

4. Dong Ruan

5. Chunhyeok Lim

6. Izabelle Caraconcea

Ph.D. graduates

1. Artem Chebotko, Assitant Professor, University of Texas at Pan American, 2008.

2. Seunghan Chang, 2008.

3. Yi Lu, Assistant Professor, Prairie View A&M University, 2006.

4. Mustafa Atay, Assistant Professor, Winston-Salem State University, 2006.

M.S. graduates

1. Scotia Meeshan Roppnarine, March, 2009

2. Seema Mahadev, October, 2008

3. Cavitha Sabesan, August, 2007.

4. Ronghui Hu, December, 2006.

5. Feng Cao, August, 2004.

6. Yu Deng, August, 2004.

7. Chunxia Zhang, December, 2003.

8. Rong Huang, December, 2003.

Favorite links

- Family pictures: family-in-the-small | family-in-the-large

- My advisor Prof. Arthur J. Bernstein’s wonderful retirement life and his fruitful academic tree.

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