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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a
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A Brief Biography
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Albert
Y. Zomaya is currently the Chair Professor of High Performance Computing
& Networking in the Prior
to taking up the current position he was a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
The University of Western Australia where he
spent the period spanning 1990–2001. During his time at UWA he headed
the Parallel Computing Research Laboratory, and also spent sometime as
Associate-, Deputy-, and Acting Head of Department. Professor
Zomaya received his PhD from the Department
of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Sheffield University in the
Professor Zomaya has to
his credit 19 book titles and more than 350 publications in technical
journals, collaborative books, and conferences. He is a Chair of the Advisory
Board of the Journal of Pervasive
Computing and Communications, Founding Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of High
Performance Computing and Networking, and member of the advisory board of
International
Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing and Journal of Interconnection
Networks. He is also the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing,
Series Co-Editor (with Professor Yi Pan) of the Wiley
Book Series on Bioinformatics, and the Series Co-Editor (with Professor
Mary Eshaghian-Wilner) of the Wiley Book Series on
Nature Inspired Computing. Professor
Zomaya is an
associate editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Journal of Biomedicine and
Biotechnology, Advances
in Bioinformatics, Communications
of SIWN, IEEE
Transactions on Computers, Journal
of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Journal of Algorithms and
Computational Technology, Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and
Intelligence, Mobile Information Systems, International Journal of Bioinformatics
Research and Applications, and International
Journal of Foundations of Computer Science. He
also served in the past (for two terms) on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and
Distributed Systems and the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics.
Professor
Zomaya is the editor-in-Chief of the Parallel and
Distributed Computing Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1996) and serves on the
executive board of the IEEE Technical
Committee on Scalable Computing and the IEEE Technical
Committee on Parallel Processing. He also serves as Scientific Council Member of the Institute
for Computer Sciences, Social–Informatics, and Telecommunications
Engineering (Brussels), Honorary Advisory
Board Member of the Machine
Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), and member of the
board of the IEEE Technical
Committee
on Self–Organization
and Cybernetics
for Informatics.
He also served as the Chair for IEEE Technical
Committee on Parallel Processing from June 1999 to July 2003. He
was awarded the 1997 Edgeworth David Medal
by the Royal Society of New South Wales
for outstanding contributions to Australian Science. In September 2000 he was
awarded the IEEE
Computer Society's Meritorious Service Award
and in 2006 was made a member of the Golden
Core (also of the IEEE Computer Society's). Professor
Zomaya's research interests are in the areas of algorithms, parallel and
distributed computing, computational machine learning, biological and
adaptive computing systems, networking, mobile computing and wireless
networks, cluster and grid computing, cloud computing, data mining,
scientific computing, bioinformatics, and systems biology. He is the founding
co-chair of the Workshop on Bio-Inspired Solutions to Parallel
Processing Problems (BioSP3) (Now known as the International Workshop on Nature
Inspired Distributed Computing). He served in different capacities on the
programs of more than 300 national and international conferences. He is a
Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, the IEEE, the Institution
of Engineering and Technology (previously known as the Institution of
Electrical Engineers), and a Distinguished Engineer of the ACM. |
