The 2021 International Conference on Smart Technologies and Systems for Internet of Things / Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies Bd.122 (PDF)

Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the Center for Advanced Computing Systems at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) which he joined in 2002. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and his M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, New York, USA, in 1992 and 1987, respectively; and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, in 1985. His early education was from Central Model High School, and Government College, Lahore. Prior to joining UTA, he was Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has authored 260-plus publications that include books, papers in peer-reviewed journals, and conference proceedings, related to software for supercomputing systems, parallel optimization algorithms, digital video compression and analysis, assistive technologies, and sustainable computing. Professor Ahmad has received numerous international research awards, including five best research paper awards at leading conferences and top-tier journals. Dr. Ahmad's research, with career-wide funding exceeding $13 million, is sponsored by government agencies and several companies. His research work, according to the Google Scholar, is widely cited with over 20,000 authors in computer science referencing his research papers. Also, according to Google Scholar, he is ranked among the world's best researchers in several research areas of computer science and engineering. Aside from being the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal, Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, he has served as an editor of six others journals, chaired over 20 conferences, and delivered more than 150 talks. A senior visiting scientist at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York, and a visiting lecturer at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, he also holds honorary professorships at several