Joseph JaJa

Joseph JaJa, the Director of Cyberinfrastructure for SeSynC, is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a Research Professor in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published over 175 papers in a number of areas including parallel and distributed computing, theoretical computer science, Very-Large-Scale-Integrated systems, and data-intensive computing. His current research interests are in high performance computing, long term archiving, management, and preservation of digital information, and scientific visualization. Dr. JaJa has received numerous awards including the IEEE Fellow Award in 1996, the 1997 R&D Award for the development software for tuning parallel programs, the ACM Fellow Award in 2000, and the Internet2 IDEA Award in 2006. He served on several editorial boards, and is currently serving as a subject area editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and as an editor for the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science. Dr. JaJa received his B.S. with highest distinction in Mathematics from American University of Beirut, Lebanon (1974). He then received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1976 and 1977, respectively.