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Charles Ahn

Dr. Ahn is a real medical doctor, graduating from Medical School,
Seoul National University in 1986 with M.D. He was also majoring
Electrophysiology and received Ph.D in 1991. After 3 years of service
as a naval medical officer, he went to U.S. in 1994 and studied
for 2 years at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and gained
ExMSE (techno-MBA degree).

Charles started anti-virus research in 1988, the first year of Korean
computer virus history. In 1995 he founded Dr. Ahn's Laboratories, Inc.
which has very popular product-line in Korea called "V3".

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David Banes

David Banes has an engineering drawing and cartographic (map drawing)
background, and started his anti-virus career around 1988 in the early
days of Dr Solomon's where Dr. Alan Solomon trained him in data
recovery, viruses and programming skills. Since then he has had an
extensive experience at Dr Solomon's in setting up the production/QA
facility, Tech Support, R&D, Product Management, and setting up the
North American operation.

David is now living in Australia, working for Symantec as Manager for
SARC Asia Pacific. He has also written several articles for magazines
and spoken at user groups about computer security.

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Kenneth Bechtel

1984 While in the US Army, Kenneth Bechtel was assigned an additional duty of
"Automation Data Security NCO", which followed him through out his career.
1988 While Serving in Korea, he discovered Dr Cohen's paper on Computer Viruses,
and recognized them as a threat. He immediately started researching the subject and found
several viruses on diskettes on the downtown software black-market diskettes.
He wrote the first policy for US Army Korea on Computer Viruses.
1990 Reassigned to Ft Polk Louisiana, and became the installation's unofficial Virus Guru.
1993 Left the military and begun private consulting to local Central Pennsylvania Businesses.
1995 - 1997 LAN Manager and Anti-Virus Lab tech for NCSA (ICSA).
1998 Back in private practice founded Team Anti-Virus, accepted as a WildList Reporter.

Larry Bridwell

Larry Bridwell serves as Program Manager for Content Security Programs at ICSA Labs, a division of TruSecure@ Corporation. In his position, Larry is responsible for developing certification programs for products that provide security from malicious code attacks and desktop intrusion products. He also serves as manager of the Anti-Virus Product Developer’s consortium (AVPD) as well as managing special projects such as ICSA Labs’ highly regarded annual Virus Prevalence Survey.
In his duties in the ICSA Labs anti-virus certification program, Larry deals with the developers of anti-virus software on the global market today, speaks at conferences and seminars internationally, and serves on national & international anti-virus and malicious software working groups. Before coming to ICSA Labs, Larry earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in educational philosophy and has over 20 years of project management and managerial experience.

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Alan Broderick

Alan studied languages and linguistics at Hull University in the United Kingdom
before embarking on a career in International Sales. He gained a wealth of
experience in both direct and channel sales in a number of sectors before
joining Sophos in 1996.

As Overseas Sales Manager he directed Sophos partners throughout the world.
Alan then became Head of International Development and was responsible for
building business in remote territories and working towards the establishment
of various Sophos subsidiaries.

In August 2000 Alan launched Sophos KK in Yokohama, Japan.

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Charles Cousins

Charles holds an MSc in Electronic Engineering from the University
of Cambridge and an MBA from London Business School. Charles has
worked in Europe, Asia and Australasia, holding positions with Rank Xerox,
Inchcape, Northern Telecom and most recently Psion, where he
was Regional Director for the Asia Pacific region.
Charles became Managing Director of Sophos Anti-Virus Asia in 2001.
He is responsible for all sales, marketing and technical support activities
in the region and for establishing a network of business partnerships
throughout Asia.

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Graem Cowling

Graeme begun his career as a Teacher in Secondary schools (Years 9-12) and also lectured at University level in the areas of Chemistry, Biology and General Science education. He currently holds B.Sc, Dip. Ed.(Monash), Dip. IT, FCS FRSC qualifications amongst others.

Graeme's University education included research in the bio-inorganic metallic chemistry of casein. Further research has also been conducted since 1977, in the area of software development and systems engineering as a Certified Apple Developer. His current research interest include the improved integration of computers in teaching, malicious code techniques and distance learning as the virus researcher at the University of Ballarat, School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences.

After his teaching career, in 1980 he began his computing career as an advisor to the Australian Government Schools Commission providing input into the way computers were to be introduced into education al all levels. It was here that he became interested in the potential for malicious coding.

For over 10 years, Graeme has provided technical and software support to major international corporations in the areas of Macintosh intergration within heterogeneous network environments, Web development and support as well as antivirus activities and security. Over this period he has also undertaken studies in Oracle, Lotus Notes, MCSE and MacCSE. Graeme is currently completing the Linux, CCNA and Novell CNA certifications as well as holding AS3760 and WorkPlace First Aid Certifications.

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Paul Ducklin

Paul Ducklin is Sophos Head of Global Support.
Paul Ducklin joined Sophos from the South African Council or Scientific and Industrial Research in 1995.
He has held a variety of roles within Sophos,
most recently heading up Sophos's global technical support operations from Sophos' offices in Sydney, Australia.

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Allan George Dyer

Allan Dyer first worked with biological viruses during his Microbiology
degree from University College London in 1984. After taking Control
Engineering as his Masters from Sheffield University in 1987, he worked
supporting computer users in University College London and the London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he first had to combat
computer viruses in 1988. He took a leading role in the Anti-Virus Team
of the Bloomsbury Computing Consortium and has many years of experience
fighting computer viruses from all over the world.

Allan is now working in Hong Kong as Technical Consultant for
Yui Kee Computing, Yui Kee Company Ltd. leading the F-Secure Support Team.

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Motoi Endo

In 1990 Motoi Endo joined JADE, one of the first anti-virus companies in Japan,
owned by Seiji Murakami. Motoi's career as an anti-virus professional had started since then.
He was responsible for product development and research and analysis on computer virus.
He also wrote programs and designed the circuits for anti-virus hardware called "Security Board".

Motoi is now working for JCSR (Japan Computer Security Research center)
in Shizuoka, Japan. His responsibility includes research and analysis
of virus, and anti-virus system development.

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Peter Ferrie

He was born in Australia in 1971. He worked for an
Australian distributor of anti-virus software, from 1992 to 1998. In
February 1998, he moved to Iceland and worked for Frisk Software
International, producer of F-Prot anti-virus. In June 2000, he
joined Symantec Corporation where he designs and develops anti-virus
technologies for the Norton Anti-Virus product line. He is a
contributor to Virus Bulletin magazine. He joined CARO in 2001.

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David Harley

David Harley is a senior manager in the UK's National Health Service
Information Authority, where he is responsible for Threat Assessment, Incident Reporting,
and Virus Management Coordination. His affiliations include AVIEN, EICAR,
TruSecure, WildList Organization, and Team Anti-Virus.

He is co-author of "Viruses Revealed" (Osborne), and has contributed chapters
to "Maximum Security" (SAMS), and the 4th edition of the Computer Security Handbook (Wiley).
He is currently working on a new edition of Robert Vibert's Enterprise Anti-Virus Book.
He is a frequent contributor to Virus Bulletin and has presented at
Virus Bulletin, SANS and EICAR conferences.

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Hendrick Adrian & Hitoshi Kimura

Hendrik ADRIAN (Representative of Kaspersky Labs OEM in Japan & Virus Expert) and
Hitoshi KIMURA (Japan Technical Director/CTO) was working as the Security System
Developer before work with Kaspersky Labs started from 4 years ago.
With the strong background of UNIX they went to the
serious Security and
AntiVirus research and implementation in many secure appliance such as
bridge, router, server and firewall.
They chose to dedicate they work to Kaspersky Labs after meeting with
Mr. Eugene Kaspersky himself and impressed by
the performance Kaspersky AntiVirus Engine's technology.

Now with the business directing of Mr. Vitaly Bezrodnykh,
they are focusing on the Kaspersky Lab's security and anti-virus
technology development and implementation in Japan, which located in Tokyo, Japan.

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Joe Hartmann

Joe Hartmann was born in Germany and lived there until he was 21
years old. He first met computer viruses and got infected in 1993,
however there was no company at that time who was really helpful to Joe.
Since then he had gotten more and more involved with antivirus research.

Joe is in charge of signature updates for "Perforin Macro Virus Scanner"
since Fall, 1996. In addition to working with Tarkan Yetiser, he works
with Richard Ku of Trend Micro US on macro viruses, analysis and
maintenance of virus samples. He currently lives in Fresno, California
studying for his degree.

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John Hermano

He joined the Trend Micro office in Taiwan as a software engineer
right after graduating from De La Salle University with the degree Bachelor
of Science in Computer Science in 1997. In the year 1998, he returned to
the Philippines and helped setup Trend Development and Support Center
(TDSC), which is now known as TrendLabs HQ Philippines. In the year 1999,
he polished the Just-In-Time (JIT) 24 hour services and Red Alert Virus
Outbreak process of the Antivirus Group. He was then promoted as Assistant
Manager and subsequently as Department Manager of the Antivirus Group in Q1
and Q4 of the year 2000 respectively. He now leads the Product Management
(PM) Group of the Antivirus Group, and works as Global Product Manager for
VSAPI Scan Engine and Virus Pattern.

Although he is based in the Philippines, he travels frequently to other
countries like United States, Europe, Japan and Taiwan , and thus has stayed
longer overseas than in the Philippines during his entire stay in Trend.

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Katrin Tocheva

Katrin Tocheva graduated in 1987 with a Master of Science in Mathematics from
the University of Sofia's Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics (Bulgaria).
Next four years she was working as a software developer for the Institute of
Mechanics and Biomechanics at the Bulgarian Academy of Science.
On April 1st, 1991 Katrin started in the National Laboratory of Computer Virology in
the Bulgarian Academy of Science as a research associate in computer viruses.
During next six years she was also a computer virus and data recovery consultant for
the New Technik Pbl GmbH (Mark&Technik Computer magazine).
In 1993 she became a member of the Bulgarian Chapter of the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM).
Since September 1st, 1997 Katrin Tocheva is working for F-Secure Corporation in Helsinki, Finland
(formerly known as Data Fellows) performing virus research.
Currently she is the Team Manager of the Anti-Virus Research team.
In November 2001 Katrin Tocheva was elected as a CARO
(Computer Anti-virus Researchers' Organization) member and is also a board member
of AVED (AntiVirus Emergency Discussion Network).
Since June 2004 she is a member of AVAR (Association of anti Virus Asia Researchers).
Katrin is a frequent contributor to security conferences and magazines such as:
Virus Bulletin, AVAR, Information Security etc.

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Davies K.T.

In October 1988, while still a student of Physics in the University of Pune,
Davies K.T. created a utility to combat the "(C) Brain Virus". VAXINE was written subsequently in
November 1989 as a response to the growing number of viruses like 8290, Cascade.1701 and Yankee Doodle.
It pioneered the concept of generic immunization against all boot/partition viruses, which
was hailed as a "Great Idea" in a comparative review by PC Quest, September 1990.

He established Pioneer Micro Systems in 1992 and offers anti virus, security
and data backup software for the Windows and NetWare platforms. He is a
contributor to Joe Wells WildList, for virus incidents reported in India.

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Sanjay Katkar

He is from Pune, India. He holds Masters degree in Computer Science.
He moved into research in the virus field since his college and
has been involved into Anti-Virus development.
He is the chief architect of Quick Heal Anti Virus (http://www.quickheal.com).
He is the President of Product Development of Cat Computer Services (P) Ltd. and is also
on the board of directors for Cat. He is also the co-founder of Cat Computer Services P Ltd.
He has released the first version of the product on MS DOS in 1994. In last 7 years
they have developed Quick Heal for all Windows platforms, Microsoft Exchange and some other mail servers also.

Summing it up he has spent last 10 years starting 1992 into research in the filed of viruses
and Anti Virus and successfully developed and maintained a product providing solutions
for viruses one after another.

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Sunil Kripalani

GM-International Sales - Microworld Software Services Pvt. Ltd
A Management Graduate with about 20 years of experience in the field of Marketing,
Mr Sunil Kripalani in various industries like office automation, telecommunication,
IT and engineering and handled direct sales and channel sales
for different parts of India. Today he is a part of the MicroWorld family
and directing the International & National Sales team toward its goal.
He has travelled extensively in different parts of the country and some parts of the world
like Nepal, Germany, Switzerland, Malaysia, Singapore, Shanghai - China, Hongkong
and knows the pulse of the security market around the world.

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Seok-Chul Kwon

Seok-Chul Kwon began to work at Inha Technical College, Korea, in 1989 when
he got infected by Sunday virus and his program files were destroyed.
Then he joined a company who sells Real-Time OS porting hardware board and makes
BSP (Board Support Package). From 1992 to 1998 he worked for Korean government
NCA (National Computerization Agency)and KISA (Korea Information Security Agency)
as anti-virus and anti-hacking researcher.

Seok-Chul has established his company "HAURI (High AntivirUs Research Inc)"
in March 1998. HAURI means "We are under the sky" in Korean.

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Seiji Murakami

Seiji Murakami is one of the anti-virus pioneers in Japan. After graduating from university
he started working as programmer and system engineer at CASIO Computer Co. Ltd.
In 1985 he established a software company "Jade System House" in Shizuoak, Japan,
and developed RAM disk software for disk basic languages and MS-DOS device drivers.

Seiji became aware of computer virus in 1989 and started research and analysis on them.
In 1990, he developed first local anti-virus product called Scan Vakzin. Jade became well-known
because of the technical tie-up with Dr Solomon's and good customer support.

After Jade was acquired by Network Associates in March 1997,
Seiji founded Japan Computer Security Research center (JCSR) and Japan
Computer Security Association (JCSA) in July 1997 in order to spend
more time on promoting anti-virus activities. He also realized that
there was a need for non-profit and independent anti-virus organization in Asia,
so he set up the AVAR mailing list in June 1998 with Charles Ahn, Allan Dyer,
and Seok-Chul Kwon. This is how AVAR started its history.

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Shih-hao Weng

He was born in Taiwan in 1977.He was first exposed to computer viruses in 1992,
and consequently he began to develop interest in this field.
while studying, he developed a virus scanner on his own time and released it onto the internet during 1995-1999.

In 2002, he graduated from TKU with a Master Degree in Computer Science.
In the same year, he joined the Institute of Information Industry
in Taiwan as a security engineer and was in charge of computer forensics.

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Keith Peer

He is CEO and President of Central Command Inc., founded
the anti-virus solution firm in 1990 and has guided the company since its inception.
He is a recognized expert in the field of antivirus protection, computer viruses,
malicious applications and data security. He has been widely quoted in well-known newspapers,
including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and Philadelphia Inquirer,
not to mention many trade publications. He has also appeared on the television networks
ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, as well as many radio stations nationwide.
Responsible for marketing, corporate positioning, and overall direction of the company,
he has extensive retail and corporate sales expertise. In addition,
he personally oversees strategic relationships with major customers and technology companies,
such as Ford Motor Company, and the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Jonathan Poon

Supporting Randy Abrams in anti-virus activities for the pre-release and
release of Microsoft's software, Jonathan has been involved with
computers and software for about 12 years, specifically in the user education and support fields.

Currently studying for his degree, his main interest of areas includes
computer security, system tweaking, programming, music of any language
and genre, a closet trekkie and a big lord of the rings fan!

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Govind Rammurthy

He is the MD-CEO of Microworld Technologies Inc., New Jersey. He has done his BE in Computer Science
from VJTI , Mumbai, India and has worked with Telco for 2 yrs as Systems Analyst.
Soon after this he started MicroWorld which is 7 years old and already has 10,000 partners
who are promoting eScan and MailScan range of products.
He is the brain behind the revolutionary "MWL Technology" which sets apart
all the MicroWorld products from those provided by the competition.
Today this young, dynamic enterprenure is a name to reckon with in the security industry.
He is the MD-CEO of Microworld Technologies Inc., New Jersey. He has done
his BE in Computer Science from VJTI , Mumbai, India and has worked with
Telco for 2 yrs as Systems Analyst.
Soon after this he started MicroWorld which is 7 years old and already has
10,000 partners who are promoting eScan and MailScan range of products.
He is the brain behind the revolutionary "MWL Technology" which sets apart
all the MicroWorld products from those provided by the competition.
Today this young, dynamic enterprenure is a name to reckon with in the security industry.

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Subramanya Rao

Subramanya Rao has a mechanical engineering background. He switched his career in 1989 to computer software and
established "Proland Software", a company based in Bangalore, India. The company is in the field of
developing software products. He first came in contact with computer viruses in 1990 when his
computer's hard disk (10 MB capacity) was infected by "PC-Stoned" virus. It was a challenge
to locate the virus and remove it. A few months later his computer was again infected by "Jerusalem"
virus. He decided to develop an anti-virus package after analyzing the Jerusalem virus code.

His company launched "Protector Plus" in June 1990. In the beginning, He was involved in
designing, coding, documenting and even marketing our anti-virus software.
Now he is the technical director of Proland Software.

Protector Plus is available for MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, 95/98, NT and NetWare operating systems.
He has 10 years of experience in anti-virus software package development.
Besides the knowledge of the evolution of computer viruses and the
techniques used by computer viruses, he also has the knowledge of system software development
(mainly device drivers) for all platforms on to which Protector Plus is ported.

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Shoko Takahashi

Shoko Takahashi graduated with the degree Bachelor of Computer Science.
And she joined the Trend Micro office in Japan as a virus analyst in 2000.
She also works on VSAPI Scan Engine and Virus Pattern for its delivery
and sustain in Japan BU now.

Srivatsa V.N.

He is a Science graduate and started his career as a Support Engineer for a
company specialised in Banking Software development.

He started his career in the anti-virus industry in 1996 at Proland Software,
the developer of Protector Plus anti-virus software. Currently he is the head
of the Technical Support division.

His area of interest is data recovery and networking. He has 7 years
experience in Customer Support.

Tom Takamoto

Tom Takamoto is a Senior Security Consultant at Canon System Solutions Inc.

He started his research life as a researcher of computer technology on
process control at iron and steel making company. His paper of the study
was given "Kelly Award" by AISE (Association of Iron and Steel Engineers)in the United States in 1987.

Since 1991, he has been working as a researcher of PC related software and
hardware to introduce latest technologies in the world to Japanese market.
His technology area is very wide from TCP/IP Stack for Windows,
MP3 Encoding, Memory Optimization, Firewall / VPN Appliance, and so on.
In 2000, he proposed a new conception of "Digital Security" for corporate
network security (including personal users) by introducing Packet Analyzer,
Application Firewall, Anti-Virus software, Personal Firewall and Anti-Spyware software.
His "Digital Security" conception is well accepted
by the Japanese market.

As an Anti-Virus researcher, he has been focusing on research of the efficiency of Anti-Virus solutions and state-of-the-art heuristics detection. He is also involved in important Anti-Virus protection public campaigns
involving publication of Anti-Virus related articles and press conferences
such as Virus Bulletin Japanese version and Virus Conference together with IDG Japan.

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Wang Jiangmin

Mr. Wang Jiangmin , who was born in 1951, senior engineer,antivirus expert,chairman of
Beijing Jiangmin New Sci. & Tec. Co. Ltd.

AVAR membership since 2001,first Chinese AVAR individual member.
He is one of the first antivirus experts in China since 1994.
KV antivirus software is first commerical software in China antivirus software market.
He founded Beijing Jiangmin New Sci. & Tec. Co. Ltd. in 1996 in Beijing.
He is chairman of that company and No.1 software designer in this company antivirus team.
He is rewarded as "first antivirus person in China" by CCTV-1 "ORIENTIAL PERSON"
until now Jiangmin Antivirus takes major share in Chinese antivirus software market,
and Jiangmin Antivirus software are entering antivirus market in Canada , India, and Japan,etc.
Kv Antivirus software was rewarded many prizes in China since 1996.
in China , KV antivirus is almost equal to Antivirus Software.
and now , he is going to pay more attention to AVAR ,and will take part in international exchange
more closely through AVAR.

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Michael Xie

Michael is the founder, CTO, vice president of engineering, and president and CEO of Fortinet Canada,
has over 10 years of experience in the network security area.
Previously, he held positions as vice president engineering for ServGate,
software director and architect at NetScreen, and security architect for Milkyway.
Michael has an M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Manitoba
as well as B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in China.
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Motoaki Yamamura

"Moto" Yamamura was born in Japan and was brought up in Chicago, USA and lived there for
17 years. After studying Computer Science, he moved back to Japan to
work at OKI Electric where he was involved in developing graphic library and drivers for UNIX.

He next worked for Yamada Corporation where he met Ikuo Yamashita and
Allan Dyer. Moto and Allan did a presentation together at Virus Bulletin
Conference '97 on "Macro viruses in double-byte languages: technical and
social aspects limiting their spread".

Now he works for Symantec Corporation in Santa Monica as
the Program Manager for Symantec AntiVirus Research Center.
He is currently responsible for managing the virus analysis
and the engine development for the Norton AntiVirus product
lines as well as the World-Wide SARC operations.

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Ikuo Yamashita

Ikuo Yamashita worked for communication device manufacuturer for 10 years, developing hardware
and farmware for each station of satelite communication for ship. Then he joined Yamada Corp,
sole agent of DataFellows in Japan, and became manager of Information Engineering. He is responsible for
virus analysis and all technical issues of F-Secure.

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Yoshihiro Yasuda

Yoshihiro Yasuda works for Network Associates Japan: he is responsible for
virus analysis, programming engine, and localization of Virus Scan.

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Yun Xiaochun

Prof. Yun Xiaochun has been teaching in Harbin Institute of Technology since September 1996. He is a Ph.D supervisor of Harbin Institute of Technology from March 2003, and Ph.D supervisor of Chinese Academy of Sciences from May 2003.

Research and Awarding:
1. < System A>, January 2003 , won the first prize of National Scientific Progress Award.
2. <System B>, November 2002, won the second prize of National Defense Scientific Progress Award, as the first winner
3. <Computer Virus and Prevention Technique> December 2001, won the third prize of National Defense Scientific Progress Award, as the second winner, which had been supported and regarded as National High-tech Industrialize Demonstration Project by National Planning Committee.
4. <HPF Core Compiler Model and Program Analysis Tools>, December 1997, won the third prize of Space Flight Scientific Progress Award, as the fifth winner
5. Outstanding Youth Scientific Innovation Award of Heilongjiang Province, September 2003

Zhao Sizhang

Zhao Sizhang started his career as an herbalist doctor after he graduated from Tianjin Vocation University in 1979. After 25 years of service in Tianjin Chinese Traditional Medicine Group, he joined Beijing Rising Technology Corp., Ltd. in 1998 and appointed as vice director of the Internet Society of China in March 2004. He now serves as CEO of Rising Technology.

Thanks to his wisdom and insight, Rising Technology has developed into China's largest provider of anti-virus software.

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