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Dr. Thomas Hou obtained his B.E. degree from the City College of New York, the M.S. degree from Columbia University, and the Ph.D. degree from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, all in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Hou was a principal research scientist and project leader at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Networking Research Department, Sunnyvale, California. He currently is Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the algorithmic design and optimization for network systems.
His current research focuses on wireless ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and video over ad hoc networks. In recent years, he has worked on scalable architectures, protocols, and implementations for differentiated services Internet; service overlay networking; multimedia streaming over the Internet; and network bandwidth allocation policies and distributed flow control algorithms. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers in the above areas and is a recipient of several Best Paper Awards from IEEE. | 