Hamid Arabnia
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Hamid R. Arabnia is Professor of Computer Science at University of Georgia.
Hamid R. Arabnia received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Kent (Canterbury, England) in 1987. In 1987, he worked as a Consultant for Caplin Cybernetics Corporation (London, England), where he helped in the design of a number of image processing algorithms that were targeted at a particular parallel machine architecture. He is currently a Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Georgia (Georgia, USA), where he has been since October 1987. His research interests include Parallel and distributed processing techniques and algorithms, interconnection networks, and applications (in particular, in image processing, medical imaging, and other computational intensive problems). He is the inventor of the MultiRing Reconfigurable interconnection network which allows a large number of processors to be interconnected in a cost-effective and scalable manner.
Arabnia has chaired many national and international conferences and technical sessions in these areas; he is the chair of WORLDCOMP annual research congress (WORLDCOMP attracts over 2,400 attendees per year from 82 countries. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) and is on the editorial and advisory boards of 22 other journals and magazines. He is the chair of the world committee of PDPTA (Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications research organization).
He has received a number of awards, including the William F. Rockwell, Jr. Medal for promotion of multi-disciplinary research from the International Technology Institute. In 2000, he was inducted to the World Level of the Hall of Fame for Engineering, Science and Technology, the highest level for a living person.
He received in 1991, the Johns Hopkins University National Search (Certificate of Achievement) in recognition of his contributions to the national program for enhancing the quality of life for people with disabilities through the application of computing technology. In 2006, Prof. Arabnia received the Distinguished Service Award from MIT in recognition and appreciation of his contributions to the profession of computer science and his assistance and support to students and scholars from all over the world. More recently (October 14, 2007), Prof. Arabnia received an "Outstanding Achievement Award in Recognition of His Leadership and Outstanding Research Contributions to the Field of Supercomputing" from IEEE.
He has published over 300 research publications (journals, proceedings, editorship) in his area of research. He has been a Co-PI on $7,139,525 externally funded projects/initiatives (mainly via Yamacraw - includes some UGA matching) and on $103,453 internally funded projects (as of January 2009). He has also contributed projects for justification for equipment purchase (grant proposals worth over $3 Million - awarded). In addition to the above, during his tenure as Graduate Coordinator/Director of Computer Science (August 2002 - January 2009), he secured the largest level of funding in the history of the department for supporting the research and education of graduate students (PhD, MS).
Arabina has delivered numerous number of keynote lectures at international conferences; most recently at (since September 2008): The 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'08, Australia; http://www.deakin.edu.au/conferences/icpads2008/speakers.php); International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN 2008 / IEEE CS, Sanya/China; http://www.sersc.org/FGCN2008/speakers.php); and The 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-08, Dalian/China). He has also delivered a number of "distinguished lectures" at various universities.He is among the top 100 most prolific authors according to the DBLP database (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/prolific/index.html).