Dr. Haibin Zhu is a Full Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Founding Director of Collaborative Systems Laboratory, member of the University Budget Plan committee, Arts and Science Executive Committee, and the Research Committee, Nipissing University, Canada. He received B.S. degree in computer engineering from the Institute of Engineering and Technology, China (1983), and M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1997) degrees in computer science from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), China. He was a visiting professor and a special lecturer in the College of Computing Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA (1999-2002) and a lecturer, an associate professor and a full professor at NUDT (1988-2000). He has published (and been accepted) over 200 research works including over 27 IEEE Transactions articles, six books, five book chapters, three journal issues, and three conference proceedings.
He is a senior member of IEEE and is serving as associate vice president (AVP),Systems Science and Engineering, co-chair of the technical committee of Distributed Intelligent Systems member of the SSE Technical Activity Committee, the Conferences and Meetings Committee, and the Electronic Communications Subcommittee of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society, Associate Editor (AE) of IEEE Transactions on SMC: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, IEEE SMC Magazine, and IEEE Canada Review. He has been an active organizer for the annual IEEE Int’l Conf. on SMC since 2003, as Poster Co-Chair (2020), Special Session Chair (2019), Tutorial Chair (2018), Area Co-Chair (2017), Social Media Co-Chair (2015), Web Co-Chair (2015), Session Chair (2003-2020), and Special Session Organizer (2003-2020). He was a Program Co-Chair for the 13th Int’l Conf. on Computer Science and Information Technology, Oct.14-16, 2020, Online (ICCSIT2020) and the 10th Int’l Conf. on Pervasive and Parallel Computing, Communication, and Sensors, Nov. 3-5, 2020, Online (PECCS2020), the Publication Chair for the 1st IEEE Int’l Conf. of Human-Machine Systems, Sept 7-9, 2020 (online) was the Program Chair for 16th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, Banff, AB, Canada, May 8-11, 2019. He is a PC Chair for 24th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, Dalian, China, May 6-8, 2020 (postponed), and was a PC Chair for 17th IEEE Int’l Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, Whistler, BC, Canada, June 27- 29, 2013. He also served as PC member for 90+ academic conferences.
He is the founding researcher of Role-Based Collaboration and Adaptive Collaboration. He has offered over 70 invited talks on collaboration topics internationally, e.g., Canada, USA, China, UK, Germany, Turkey, Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore. His research has been being sponsored by NSERC, IBM, DRDC, and OPIC.
He is the receipt of the meritorious service award from IEEE SMC Society (2018), the chancellor’s award for excellence in research (2011) and two research achievement awards from Nipissing University (2006, 2012), the IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant Awards(2004, 2005), the Best Paper Award from the 11th ISPE Int’l Conf. on Concurrent Engineering (ISPE/CE2004), the Educator’s Fellowship of OOPSLA’03, a 2nd class National Award for Education Achievement (1997), and three 1st Class Ministerial Research Achievement Awards from China (1997, 1994, and 1991).
His research interests include Collaboration Theory, Technologies, Systems, and Applications, Human-Machine Systems, CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work), Multi-Agent Systems, Software Engineering, and Distributed Intelligent Systems.