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A Brief Biography
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Albert Y. Zomaya is currently the Chair
Professor of High Performance Computing & Networking and Australian
Research Council Professorial Fellow in the School of
Information Technologies, The University of Sydney. He is also the Director of the Centre for
Distributed and High Performance Computing which was established in
late 2009. Professor Zomaya
held the CISCO Systems Chair Professor of Internetworking during the
period 2002–2007 and also was Head of school for 2006–2007 in the same
school. Prior to his current appointment he was a Full Professor in the School
of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of
Western Australia, where he also led the Parallel Computing Research
Laboratory during the period 1990–2002. He served as Associate–, Deputy–, and
Acting–Head in the same department, and held numerous visiting positions and
has extensive industry involvement. Professor
Zomaya received his PhD from the Department of Automatic Control and
Systems Engineering, Sheffield University in the United Kingdom. Professor Zomaya is the author/co–author of seven books, more than 370
publications in technical journals and conferences, and the editor of nine
books and 11 conference volumes. He is the Editor in Chief of the IEEE
Transactions on Computers and serves as
an associate editor for another 19 journals including some of the leading
journals in the field, such as, IEEE Transactions on Parallel
and Distributed Systems and Journal
of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He is the
Founding Editor of the Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing and the Co–Editor (with Professor Yi Pan) of the Wiley Book Series on
Bioinformatics and (with Professor
Mary Eshaghian-Wilner) the Wiley Book Series on Nature Inspired Computing. He is the Editor–in–Chief of the Parallel and
Distributed Computing Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1996). Professor Zomaya was the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
(1999–2003) and currently serves on its executive committee. He also serves
on the advisory board of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable
Computing, the advisory board of
the Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), is a scientific council member of the Institute
for Computer Sciences, Social–Informatics, and Telecommunications Engineering
(Brussels) and member of the board of the IEEE
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
Technical Committee
on Self–Organized Distributed and
Pervasive Systems.
Professor Zomaya has delivered more than 100 keynote addresses, invited
seminars, and media briefings and has been actively involved, in a variety of
capacities, in the organization of more than 570 national and international
conferences. Professor Zomaya is a Fellow of the IEEE,
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology,
a Distinguished Engineer of the ACM and a Chartered Engineer (CEng). He
received 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 Meritorious Service
Award and in 2006 was made a member of the Golden Core (both
from the IEEE Computer Society). His research interests are in the areas of algorithms, complex
systems, parallel and distributed systems and networking. |
