WESLEY CHU, Professor

e-mail:wwc@cs.ucla.edu

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AREAS OF INTEREST

• Distributed computing
• Distributed databases
• Memory management
• Computer Communications
• Performance measurement and evaluation for distributed systems and multiaccess packet-switched systems

Dr. Chu was born in Shanghai, China, and received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Michigan. He earned the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1966. He has worked on switching circuits and computer systems at General Electric and at IBM and did his research in computer communications at Bell Labs, 1966-69. He joined the UCLA Faculty in 1969, and was the Chairman of the Department from 1988-91. He is an IEEE fellow. His current research interests include distributed processing and distributed database systems, knowledge base and database systems, and intelligent information systems.