In 1996, he was awarded Bell labs Research Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. He became a Fellow of The IEEE in 1997. He is a Counselor of National Science Foundation of China. He has served at various technical program committees of international conferences. Bill Bao received his Ph.D degree in Computer Software and Theory from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China in 2000.
D dissertation focuses on the coordination of distributed software components.
His current research interests include Internet, Network Computing, Optical Network, etc. His professional interests include network management, network security and mobile agent. Upon graduation, he joined Yaskawa Information Systems Co., Ltd, Japan, where he developed a database system. In 1993, he entered the Department of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, where he did research on algorithms and data structures, computational complexity, automated deduction and speech recognition. In 2000, he joined Bell Labs Research China.