Lanzhou University (Academic Member)

Founded in 1909 and located in Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu Province, Lanzhou University is one of the key universities in P.R. China.

According to statistics provided by the Scientific Citation Index (SCI) and the Index Scientific Research (ISR), Lanzhou University is one of the top ten universities in contributions to academic publications in international journals frequently cited by ongoing research from around the world. Specifically, in 1992 and 1993, the university ranked third nationally in contributions to academic publications and sixth place in journal citations, thus bringing international attention to the university from academic societies worldwide.

Lanzhou University is active in developing international education exchange and cooperation through the international exchange of post-graduate students, visiting scholars and scientific research cooperation with universities and organizations in more than 30 foreign countries and regions including USA, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Canada, Russia, Kong Kong and many others.

One of the 23 schools of the Lanzhou University is the School of Information Science and Engineering which, among others, harbors the Distributed & Embedded System Lab led by Prof. Nicholas Mc Guire. The Distributed & Embedded System Lab was founded in July, 2005. It intends to provide an academic and industrial technology pool that will allow advance in embedded and distributed technology based on free-software components, so as to broaden the field of applications and increase the diversity of implementations.