Albert Y. Zomaya FAA FRSN is currently the Chair Professor of High Performance Computing & Networking and Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow in the School of Information Technologies, [1] The University of Sydney. He is also the Director of the Centre for Distributed and High Performance Computing. [2] He is currently the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing and Springer's Scalable Computing and Communications. [3] He was past Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers.
Zomaya, an ethnic Assyrian, received his B.S. degree (1987) from Kuwait University [4] in Electrical Engineering and PhD degree (1990) in Control Engineering from Sheffield University, [5] United Kingdom.
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, [6] Sheffield University in the United Kingdom.
Zomaya published more than 1000 scientific papers and articles and is author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He is currently the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing and Springer's Scalable Computing and Communications and serves as an associate editor for 22 leading journals. He was past Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers. Professor Zomaya is the Founding Editor of the Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing. [7]
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. He is the recipient of the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing Outstanding Service Award [8] (2011), the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing [9] (2011), and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award [10] (2014). His research interests are in the areas of complex systems, parallel and distributed computing, and green computing. In 2019 he was awarded the NSW Premier's Prize for "Excellence in Engineering or Information and Communications Technology". [11] In 2020 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, [12] while in 2022 he became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. [13]
Professor Zomaya is the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, [14] the Founding Editor in Chief of the Springer's Scalable Computing and Communications Journal, [15] and serves as an associate editor for another 20 journals including, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. He was past Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. [16]
Professor Zomaya is the author/co-author of more than 450 publications. . He has several books to his name:
Albert Y. Zomaya FAA FRSN is currently the Chair Professor of High Performance Computing & Networking and Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow in the School of Information Technologies, [1] The University of Sydney. He is also the Director of the Centre for Distributed and High Performance Computing. [2] He is currently the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing and Springer's Scalable Computing and Communications. [3] He was past Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers.
Zomaya, an ethnic Assyrian, received his B.S. degree (1987) from Kuwait University [4] in Electrical Engineering and PhD degree (1990) in Control Engineering from Sheffield University, [5] United Kingdom.
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, [6] Sheffield University in the United Kingdom.
Zomaya published more than 1000 scientific papers and articles and is author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He is currently the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing and Springer's Scalable Computing and Communications and serves as an associate editor for 22 leading journals. He was past Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers. Professor Zomaya is the Founding Editor of the Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing. [7]
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. He is the recipient of the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing Outstanding Service Award [8] (2011), the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing [9] (2011), and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award [10] (2014). His research interests are in the areas of complex systems, parallel and distributed computing, and green computing. In 2019 he was awarded the NSW Premier's Prize for "Excellence in Engineering or Information and Communications Technology". [11] In 2020 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, [12] while in 2022 he became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. [13]
Professor Zomaya is the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, [14] the Founding Editor in Chief of the Springer's Scalable Computing and Communications Journal, [15] and serves as an associate editor for another 20 journals including, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. He was past Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. [16]
Professor Zomaya is the author/co-author of more than 450 publications. . He has several books to his name: