Joseph F. JáJá
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Professor, Computer and Electrical Engineering and the 301/405-1925 TEL |
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.
Links
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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