Weidong KouDr. Weidong Kou is Director and Distinguished Professor of Chinese State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks. He also serves as Adjunct Professor of the University of Maryland and the University of Hong Kong. Professor Kou is the Founding Chair of International Symposium on Electronic Commerce (ISEC). He served as ISEC's General Chair/Program Chair from 1998 to 2001 and Co-Chair of the International Conference on Global Information Technology in 2002. He has been invited as the keynote speakers for many conferences. He has also served as a Guest Editor for special issues on e-commerce for International Journal on Digital Libraries. Prof. Kou has authored/edited 8 books in the areas of e-commerce, security, and multimedia technologies, and published over 60 papers on journals and conferences. He has also authored 9 US and Canada issued and pending patents. Prof. Kou is a Senior Member of IEEE. He was elected as a Member of New York Academy of Sciences in 1992. Read More Read Less