Dr. Tian He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in 2004 and the M.S. degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2000, and the B.S. degree from the Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing, China in 1996. All in computer science. He is author and co-author of 20 papers at international conferences and journals. His current research interests include wireless sensor networks, real-time embedded systems and distributed systems. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.