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A Brief Biography

Albert Y. Zomaya is currently the Peter Nicol Russell Chair Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney. He is also the Director of the Centre for Distributed and High Performance Computing which was established in early 2010. In 2019, he became the Inaugural Director of the Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Energy Informatics and Demand Response Technologies. Professor Zomaya also served for five years as an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow during 2010-2014.

Professor Zomaya was the Chair Professor of High-Performance Computing & Networking (2008-2021), the CISCO Systems Chair Professor of Internetworking (2002-2007), and also served as Head of School for 2006-2007 in the School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney. 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 currently serves as Steering Committee Member, PhD program in Cyber Physical Systems, University of Messina, Italy, Member, Mobile and Pervasive Computing Institute, Lund University, Sweden, Management Team Member, Centre for Complex Systems, The University of Sydney, Australia, among other roles.

Professor Zomaya is the author/co-author of seven books, more than 600 publications in technical journals and conferences. Also, he is the editor of 25 books and 30 conference volumes. He has led more than 40 large multi-organisational and multidisciplinary research projects that have produced high impact results for the government and industry.

Professor Zomaya served as Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers for two terms during 2011-2014. Currently, he serves as a Founding Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, Editor-in-Chief for the ACM Computing Surveys, Associate Editor-in-Chief (Special Issues), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He serves as an Associate Editor for several leading journals, such as, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is the Founding Editor of several book series, such as, the Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Springer Scalable Computing and Communications, and the IET Book Series on Big Data.

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 many professional bodies, for example, as a Co-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems, Communication Chair of IEEE Special Technical Community on Sustainable Computing, member of the Advisory Board of the advisory board of the Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), and several others.

Professor Zomaya has delivered more than 300 keynote addresses, invited seminars, and media briefings and has been actively involved, in a variety of capacities, in the organization of more than 700 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 Member 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). Also, he received the IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service Award (2011), the IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing (2011), the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2014), the ACM MSWIM 2017 Reginald A. Fessenden Award (2017), and the 2019 New South Wales Premier Prize of Excellence in Engineering or Information and Communications Technology. His research interests span several areas in parallel and distributed computing, mobile computing, and complex systems.


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Last updated: February 7, 2022