This page introduces the contributors to Histories of Computing in Asia, the Springer proceedings volume from the IFIP WG 9.7 International Workshop on the History of Computing. The published volume could not include this full contributor list, so I am pleased to share it here as an online companion to the book.
The contributors follow the tradition of the working group, including historians, cultural studies scholars, technical specialists, and museum and archive professionals. This mix has been a strength of our history of computing workshops.
Histories of Computing in Asia: Revised Selected Papers, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (AICT volume 739, © 2026). doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-19480-0
- “Teaching the History of Computing across Asia/America: Computerization, Globalization, and Racialization.”
- Yoehan Oh (he/him) is a postdoctoral associate and lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University, United States. He is an interdisciplinary researcher who studies the global Asian and Asian American connections between computing, the humanities, and qualitative social sciences. He took his MSc and PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States, respectively. His current book project is an interpretive analysis of Naver, the South Korean big tech company. He has a background in electrical engineering and computer science, with BSc in Engineering and MSc in Engineering, both from SNU, and working at LG Electronics, South Korea, on smart TV software systems. His research has been supported by the Jong Ha Scholarship Foundation, the D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science & Technology in East Asia, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History and Archiving Fellowships.
- “Help of Soviet Scientists to Chinese Colleagues at the Initial Stage of the Computer Era in China.”
- Vladimir Kitov, Associate Professor, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. In Russia and the USSR, he is a well-known specialist in the field of system software. Real-time computer systems developed under the leadership of V. Kitov were used in more than 40% of industrial enterprises in the USSR. For more than 20 years, he worked as a top manager in Moscow at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Siemens and Fujitsu. Over the past 25 years, he has given annual presentations at well-known IT congresses and was a member of their organizing committees. He is the author of more than 120 scientific publications, including six monographs.
- Olga Kitova, Doctor of Economics, PhD (Mathematics), is the head of the Department of Computer Science at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (Moscow). She is Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, and a member of the Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Kitova worked as a top manager in leading international and Russian IT companies: Kaspersky Lab (product director), Luxoft (marketing director), Software AG (director of marketing and partner relations in Russia and the CIS), etc. Dr. Kitova is the author of 200 scientific publications, including 9 monographs and 10 textbooks. She is the developer and head of the master’s programs “Information Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence” and “Digital Business,” as well as the developer and head of the educational program of postgraduate study “Informatics and information processes.” She is a member of the Academic Council of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.
- “CAD/CAM and the Reorganization of Labor Process in the Taiwan Mold Industry.”
- Chunhao Huang is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. His research interests include labor sociology, industrial sociology and science, technology, and society (STS).
- “Qian Xuesen and the Development of New Computer Technology in China.”
- Si Hongwei is an associate professor at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences (IHNS), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also the director of the Computer History Working Committee of the China Computer Federation (CCF). His research direction is in the history of computers.
- Jiang Yuping is a professor at the Institute of History and Culture of Science of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His main research field covers the history of science and technology in modern China.
- Cui Jin is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences (IHNS), Chinese Academy of Sciences. His supervisor is Prof. Sun Xianbin. His research field is the history of computers.
- “Review of the Study of the Chinese Electronic Computer History.”
- Cui Jin is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences (IHNS), Chinese Academy of Sciences. His supervisor is Prof. Sun Xianbin. His research field is the history of computers.
- Sun Xianbin is a professor at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences (IHNS), Chinese Academy of Sciences. A graduate from the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Peking University, Prof. Sun once worked as a senior engineer in Marketing Department of Mobile Communications at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Currently, Prof. Sun conducts research on the history of science and technology, science and society, and the heritage and digital humanities of science and technology.
- “Wiring the State Back in: Digitalization, Intermediaries, and ICT4D at the Last Mile.”
- Khetrimayum Monish is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Southeast Asia Research Centre for Digital Tech and Society (SEADS), Monash University, Malaysia. He took his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and he has previously been a part of research projects at the Centre for Internet and Society, India and at IIIT Bangalore, India. Prior to joining SEADS, he was a IFRIS Postdoctoral Fellow at Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés, Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris.
- “History of Computing in India: The Role of Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis and the Indian Statistical Institute.”
- Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Ph.D., is head of the Library, Documentation and Information Science Division at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and in-charge of the Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Memorial Museum and Archives. With over 24 years of experience at premier institutions, he has led national and international projects, published widely, and edited several books. Dr. Satpathy is recipient of the SIS Young Information Scientist and SATKAL Young Librarian Awards. His research interests include digital libraries, indigenous knowledge, and EDIA (equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility).
- “Denaturalizing the Hegemony of Internet English with the History of Telegraphy.”
- Christopher Leslie (he/him) is a lecturer in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at the Prince of Songkla University in Hat Yai, Thailand. He is the chair of IFIP Working Group 9.7. In this role, he has organized workshops on international innovation in computing, histories of computing in Eastern Europe, and histories of computing in Asia. He was an editor of proceedings volumes for each of these workshops (which were published by Springer). Dr. Leslie is the author of several articles and a book, From Hyperspace to Hypertext: Masculinity, Globalization, and Their Discontents, which was published in 2023 by Palgrave. A two-time winner of U.S. Fulbright awards, Dr. Leslie has taught at the City University of New York, New York University, Universität Potsdam (Germany), and the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou. Dr. Leslie was born and raised in the western corner of New York State and started his academic career with the intention of becoming a computer engineer. Although he ended up in cultural studies, he has not strayed far from the world of technology. He took his M.A. and Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center in New York City.