Cheng-Zhong Xu Wayne State University, USA Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Bio sketch: Cheng-Zhong Xu, IEEE Fellow, is a professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University He is also the Director of Cloud and Internet Computing Laboratory and the Director of Center of Excellence in Open Source Computing and Applications in the school Prior to joining WSU, he was a visiting professor of Paderborn University, Germany for one year Currently, he has a joint appointment as the Director and Chief Scientist of the Institute of Advanced Computing and Digital Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences His research interest is mainly in distributed and parallel systems, cloud computing, and wireless embedded computing, with an emphasis on resource management for performance, availability, reliability, energy efficiency, and security He published more than 200 papers in journals and conferences in these areas and received more than 7500 citations with H-index of 40 He was the author of book “Scalable and Secure Internet Services and Architecture” (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2005) and the leading co-author of book “Load Balancing in Parallel Computers: Theory and Practice” (Kluwer Academic/Springer, 1997) He received the Best Paper Nominee Award of 2013 IEEE High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2013 ACM/IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), and 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) He served on a number of journal editorial boards, including IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and China Science He participated in the organization of more than ten conferences, including IEEE CCGrid 2015 as a general co-chair He was a recipient of Career Development Chair Award, and the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching of WSU He was also a recipient of the “Outstanding Young Oversea Chinese Scholar” award of NSFC He received his B.S and M.S degrees from Nanjing University in 1986 and 1989, respectively, and his Ph.D degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1993, all in Computer Science For more information, visit http://www.ece.eng.wayne.edu/~czxu Position Statement: Distributed processing plays in increasingly important role in computing It serves as a key enabling technology for today’s cloud and Internet services The emergent applications and services raise new challenges that we must deal with in distributed processing, including mobility, scalability, reliability, energy-efficiency, interoperability, and security I am fortunate to work in this dynamic field over the past 25 years My extensive research experience in the field equips me with sufficient background to understand the challenges and opportunities My active participation in the organization of related events, including TCDP-sponsored conferences, prepares me well for taking the lead in TCDP community My dual roles in U.S.A and China would give me the opportunity to access more resources and outreach more people for the success of TCDP In my first term, I played a leading role to move the TCDP forward, building on prior success In particular, I worked with TCDP community in planning and executing the following tasks: (1) Promoted the TCDP membership, especially for students and practitioners and cultivate a strong sense of TCDP community via emails, websites, and newsletters Newsletters were distributed to TCDP community of more than 3000 active members quarterly., updating the community of important articles related to distributed processing as well as job advertisements (2) Explored opportunity to sponsor more events on emergent topics of distributed processing so as to reflect the dynamics of the field and expand the presence of TCDP Sponsored conferences were increased from 10 to 13, including financially sponsored and technically sponsored If re-elected, I will continue to work with the TCDP members and executive committee to more the TCDP forward to new level of success Besides increasing the membership and sponsored events, I will be focusing on two tasks in particular: (1) Re-establish the TCDP Award Program that was presented once in ICDCS about 10 years ago The awards could include Technical Achievement Award and Outstanding Service Award to recognize the people we contributed to the community significantly (2) Grow the TCDP community internationally to include more participants from countries like China and India that are under-represented Distributed processing is driven by the principle of globalization by nature TCDP-sponsored events should move around the world to help grow the community from the members outsides the U.S.A Given my research expertise in the field, leadership in professional activities and global collaboration experience, I am confident I can take the lead to fulfill the TCDP mission