Ishfaq Ahmad (computer scientist)

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Ishfaq Ahmad is a Pakistani American computer scientist, IEEE Fellow,^[1] and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA).^[2] He is the Director of the Center for Advanced Computing Systems (CACS).^[3]

Ahmad's research focuses on parallel and distributed computing systems, with applications in multimedia systems and energy-aware sustainable computing^[4].

Ahmad has received research awards, including:

• IEEE Circuits and Systems Society: 2007 Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Transactions Best Paper Award^[5]
• Outstanding Area Editor Award: 2008 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
• Honoree in Pride of Pakistan, Hall of Fame, and also a Fellow of IEEE

In addition to being a full-time professor at the University of Texas at Arlington,^[6] Ahmad has held the following academic appointments.

• Fellow of the IEEE
• Member of the super-computing advisory board^[7] for Lifeboat Foundation
• Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems
• Co-founder of the International Green and Sustainable Computing (IGSC) Conference

In addition, he has served as editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.

• • Handbook of Energy-Aware and Green Computing, Ishfaq Ahmad and Sanjay Ranka, CRC Press, 2012.
  • Handbook of Exascale Computing, Sanjay Ranka and Ishfaq Ahmad, CRC Press, expected 2018.
  • “Static scheduling algorithms for allocating directed task graphs to multiprocessors,” Y. K. Kwok and Ishfaq Ahmad, ACM Computing Surveys, 1999.