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| Fatos Xhafa |
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| Department of Languages and Informatic Systems, |
| Regular Member |
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| Short Biography |
| Fatos graduated in Mathematics from the Faculty of Natural Sciencies (FNS), University of Tirana (UT), Albania, in 1988. During 1989-1993 he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the FNS, UT, Albania. Fatos joined the Techical University of Catalonia as a Visiting Professor at the Applied Mathematics Department I, and later he entered the Department of Languages and Informatic Systems (LSI) as a PhD student and in 1996 as an Assistant Professor. Fatos got his PhD in Computer Science from the Department of LSI in 1998. Currently, Fatos is Associate Professor (Professor Titular) at the Department of Languages and Informatic Systems and member of the ALBCOM Research Group (ALGORITHMS, BIOINFORMATICS, COMPLEXITY AND FORMAL METHODS). His current research interests include parallel and distributed algorithms, combinatorial optimization, approximation and meta-heuristics, networking systems, distributed programming, Grid and P2P computing. His research is supported by Research Projects from Spain, EU and NSF/USA. Fatos is awarded research merits for the period 1996-2007 from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology and for the period 2001-2006 from the Catalan Government. Fatos is involved in the organization of several International events. He served as Organizing Chair of ARES-2008, PC Chair of CISIS-2008, General Chair of HIS-2008 held at UPC. Cuurently, he is the Workshops Chair of CISIS-2009. He is the co-organizer of 3PGIC workshop (held within CISIS conference), MuCoCos workshop (held within CISIS conference), SMECS workshop (held within ICPP conference) and BWCCA workshop (held within iiWAS conference). Fatos is also member of editorial board, regular reviewer of International Journals and Guest Editors of about 10 Special Issues. Fatos teaches at UPC and also at Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He is also external member of the research group Parallel, Distributed and Collaborative Systems (PDCS) of UOC. |
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