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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 300 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. He is also the Founding
Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley Book Series on Parallel and
Distributed Computing, Series Co-Editor (with Yi Pan) of the Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics, and the Series Co-Editor (with Mary Eshaghian-Wilner) of the Wiley Book Series on Nature Inspired Computing. Professor Zomaya is an
associate editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Computers, Journal
of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Journal of Algorithms and
Computational Technology, Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and
Intelligence, International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and
Distributed Systems,
Mobile Information Systems, International Journal of Bioinformatics
Research and Applications, International
Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, International
Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, International Journal of
Computers and Applications, Future Generation Computer
Systems Journal, Journal
of Interconnection Networks, 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) 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, 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. |
