[Dr. Hua received his BEng and MEng degrees in CS from Central South University, and his PhD degree in CS from HKU under the supervision of Prof. Francis C.M. Lau.

He is interested in parallel and distributed computing, including algorithms ,  hardness analysis and algorithm-architecture co-design.

He is an associate professor in School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

He is a member of the Services Computing Technology and System Lab, Big Data Technology and System Lab, and the Cluster and Grid Computing Lab.

Dr. Hua was an assistant professor in the IIIS, Tsinghua University.]