Destiny
grants our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond
our wishes - Goethe |
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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