Professor Albert Zomaya
Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow
Chair of High Performance Computing and Networking
Director, Centre for Distributed and High Performance Computing
School of Information Technnologies
J12 - The School of Information Technologies
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
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.
Teaching and supervision
INFO5993 - IT Research Methods
Selected grants
2013
- Optimising Service Level Agreements for Performance and Energy Efficiency in Cloud Computing Systems; Zomaya A, Zhou B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2010
- Holistic Energy-Aware Scheduling for Distributed Computing Systems; Zomaya A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
- Replica placement in data-intensive distributed computing systems; Zomaya A, Zhou B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2009
- Parallel Algorithms for mobility management; Zomaya A; DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant.
2008
- Data and Job Scheduling in Large-Scale Distributed Systems; Warren J, Zomaya A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage.
- Visualisation and Processing of Whole Slide Images; Zomaya A, Lezoray O, Lezoray O; DVC Research/International Visiting Research Fellowship (IVRF).
2006
- A grid-enabled meta server for protein threading; Charleston M, Zomaya A, Viglas A, Zhou B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
2005
- Scientific Instruments as ICT Components in Building a GrEMLIN for e-Research; Kepert C, Turner P, Zomaya A, Abramson D, Chiu K, Hauser N, Hursthouse M, McMullen D, Pailthorpe B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Special Research Initiatives.
- The EarthByte software and database system; Muller R, Clarke G, Zomaya A, Cawood P, Moresi L, Muhlhaus H, Coffin M, Cox S, Gohl K, Cox S; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Special Research Initiatives.
- Wireless Sensor Networks Enriches Large-Scale Information Systems; Roehm U, Scholz B, Viglas A, Kulik L, Kotagiri R, Selvadurai S, Zomaya A, Tanin E; Australian Research Council (ARC)/National EII Taskforce Grant.
- Collaborative Community Networks - TITAN; Selvadurai S, Landfeldt B, Greenhalgh A, McLachlan T, Zomaya A, Zhou B, Scholz B, Everitt D, Viglas A; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/Research Support.
- A Framework for the Development of Parallel Protein Structure Prediction Algorithms; Zomaya A, Zhou B; University of Sydney/Research & Development.
2004
- Probabilitic scheduling algorithms for parallel task execution; Zomaya A; University of Sydney (Sesqui)/Research & Development.
- Designing a scalable and robust infrastructure for highly dynamic web services.; Zomaya A, Tari Z; APAK Entertainment Pty Ltd/ARC Linkage Collaborating Organisation.
- Pervasive grids with autonomic capabilities; Everitt D, Zomaya A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
2003
- IE-07: Nightingale Project; Smart Internet Technology CRC Pty. Ltd.; Landfeldt B, Zomaya A, Kay J, Everitt D, Quigley A, Greenhalgh A; Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre/BLO Project.
- Modelling network behaviour using partial information; Zomaya A, Casey D; Department of Defence/BLO Project.
- Scalable Algorithms for Network Vulnerability Analysis and Monitoring (Contract Number 4500289234); Zomaya A, Casey D; Department of Defence/BLO Project.
- Dependable distributed enterprises and services; Zomaya A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Special Research Initiatives.
- Dynamid load balancing for systems under heavy traffic demand and high task size variation; Zomaya A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
2002
- An adaptive class of meta-heuristics for routing in datagram networks; Weir H, Zomaya A; Department of Defence, Corp Serv & Infra CentreSA/BLO Project.
Selected publications
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Algorithms in Computational Molecular Biology: Techniques, Approaches and Applications (Wiley,2011)
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MobiWac'09: Proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),2009)
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Computing for Numerical Methods Using Visual C++ (John Wiley & Sons,2008)
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Grid Computing for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (John Wiley & Sons,2008)
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Handbook of Bioinspired Algorithms and Applications (Taylor and Francis,2006)
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Handbook of Nature-Inspired and Innovative Computing (Springer Science + Business Media,2006)
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Parallel Computing for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (John Wiley & Sons,2006)
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Dependable Computing Systems: Paradigms, Performance Issues and Applications (John Wiley & Sons,2005)
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Solutions to Parallel and Distributed Computing Problems: Lessons from Biological Sciences (John Wiley & Sons,2001)
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PhD and master's project opportunities
- Estimation and Inference in Environment Sensing Networks
- Parallel Stochastic Optimization Algorithms
- Self-Assembly and Self-Organization in Complex Systems
- Cellular Automata Based Cryptography
- The Mapping of Optimization Algorithms on Different Families of Computer Architectures
- Scheduling and Load Balancing in Large Scale Distributed Computing Environments
- Quality of Service in Distributed Computing Systems
- Healing and Self-Repair in Large Scale Distributed Computing Systems
- Application Isolation Techniques in Cloud Computing Platforms
- Accountability in Distributed Systems for Bioinformatics Data Management
- Application-Specific Service Level Agreement and Energy-Efficiency Improvement in Cloud Computing Platforms
- Autonomic Communications in Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems
- Detection of Anomalous Variations in Dynamic Networks
- The Choice of Appropriate Difference Measures
- Distributed Coalition Planning and Decision Making
- Federating Autonomous Sensor Networks
- Self-Assembly and Self-Organization in Complex Distributed Systems
- Parallel Stochastic Optimization Algorithms
- MicroRNAs as Regulators of Cellular Programs
- Resilience and distributed systems for a healthy society
- Biological metaphors and resilience
- Complex Networks and Performance


