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Professor, Computer and Electrical Engineering and the
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS)
Former Director, UMIACS
3433 A.V. Williams Bldg.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

301/405-1925 TEL
301/405-6707 FAX
joseph@umiacs.umd.edu
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Research Interests

High-performance computing, parallel algorithms; data intensive computing with applications to remote sensing; data grids; digital preservation; scientific visualization; data mining

Background Information

Joseph Jájá received his B.S. degree in Mathematics with high distinction from the American University of Beirut in 1974. He was awarded his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics by Harvard University in 1976 and 1977, respectively.

Dr. Jájá served as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science from 1977-82 and as an Associate Professor of Computer Science from 1982-82 at the Pennsylvania State University. In 1983, he became an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland and joined ISR, then the Systems Research Center, as a research faculty appointment in 1985. He was promoted to full Professor in 1987. He served as the ISR Associate Director for Research from 1988 to 1994. He was the Director of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies from July 1994 to December 2004.

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UM Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
ADAPT: An Approach to Digital Archiving and Preservation Technology
Visual Exploration of Large Scale Multidimensional  Data
Earth Science Information Partnership for Land Cover
Performance and Management of Distributed Heterogeneous Networks
Parallel Algorithmics
Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics

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