The Sixth IASTED International Conference on
Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics
CIB 2011
November 7 – 9, 2011
Pittsburgh, USA
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIR
Biography of the Conference Co-Chair
Dr. Znati received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 1988, and a M.S. degree in Computer Science from Purdue University, in 1984. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, with a joint appointment in Telecommunications in the Department of Information Science, and a joint appointment in Computer Engineering at the School of Engineering. He served as the Director of the Computer and Network Systems Division at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Znati also served as a Senior Program Director for networking research at the National Science Foundation. In this capacity, Dr. Znati led the Information Technology Research (ITR) Initiative, a cross-directorate research program, and served as the Committee Chair of the NSF Information Technology Research Initiative.
Dr. Znati's main research interests are in the design and analysis of evolvable, secure and resilient network architectures and protocols for wired and wireless communication networks. He is also interested in bio-inspired approaches to address complex computing and communications design issues that arise in large-scale heterogeneous wired and wireless networks. He is a recipient of several research grants from government agencies and from industry. He is frequently invited to present keynotes in networking and distributed conferences both in the United States and abroad.
Dr. Znati has served as the General Chair of GlobeCom 2010. He was a member of the editorial group of the special issue on bio-inspired computing and communications in wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks, Ad-Hoc Networks Journal 2009. He also served as the general chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2005, the general chair of SECON 2004, the first IEEE conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, the general chair of the Annual Simulation Symposium, and the general chair of the Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference. He also served or currently serves a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks, the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, the Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and Wireless Networks, the Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation and information. He was also a member of the editorial board of the Journal on Ad-Hoc Networks, and a member of IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Systems.
