Dr Joseph Hui received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from MIT in 1981, 1981, and 1983. Since graduation, he has worked at IBM and Bellcore, as well as taught at Columbia University, Rutgers University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and since 1999 holds the ISS Chair Professor of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University.
At Rutgers and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he performed research on multimedia and Internet communications, built video servers, commercialized Voice over IP, and assisted in the research and construction of the Hong Kong Internet Exchange. He was also appointed an adviser of the Hong Kong Government that ended the monopoly of Hong Kong Telecom for local and International phone service.
Since joining ASU, his research changed to wireless mesh networks, IO virtualization, cloud computing, and recently renewable energy generation, storage and usage. From his research, many companies were formed, including IXSoft and IXTech in the Hong Kong SAR, and in the US, 4Blox, and recently Nuon Labs and its subsidiaries Virtuon, Pcion, Etherion, and a recently acquired company ABM (Advanced Battery Management).海报20101215