1/13/2010
an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, and Ioannis Chasiotis, an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been named a Donald Biggar Willett Scholars in the College of Engineering.
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an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, and Ioannis Chasiotis, an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been named a Donald Biggar Willett Scholars in the College of Engineering.
Prior to joining the Illinois faculty in 2005, Abdelzaher was an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, where he founded the Software Predictability Group. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, and his PhD from the University of Michigan.
Abdelzaher's interests lie primarily in systems, including operating systems, networking, sensor networks, distributed systems, and embedded real-time systems. I am especially interested in developing theory, architectural support, and computing abstractions for predictability in software systems, motivated by the increasing software complexity and the growing sources of non-determinism. Applications range from sensor networks to large-scale server farms, and from avionics to homeland defense.
He is a member of IEEE and ACM, and has authored/coauthored three book chapters and more than 60 refereed publications in leading conferences and journals in several fields including real-time computing, distributed systems, sensor networks, and control. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Real-Time Systems, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the ACM Transaction on Sensor Networks, the International Journal of Embedded Systems, and the Ad Hoc Networks Journal, as well as editor of ACM SIGBED Review. He was guest editor for the Journal of Computer Communications and the Journal of Real-Time Systems, and is co-editor of IEEE Distributed Systems Online.
This is the latest of many honors Chasiotis has achieved since coming to Illinois in 2005 (also from the University of Virginia). His research interests focus on MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS), nanostructured composite materials, mechanical behavior of nanofibers fabricated from polymers, ceramics and metals and the application of atomic force microscopy in experimental mechanics.
Chasiotis earned his MS and PhD in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology. His undergraduate degree was in chemical engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
One of the most impressive honors he has achieved to date has been the 2008 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Chasiotis will travel on Wednesday (January 13, 2010) to Washington, D.C, where President Barack Obama will personally present the award. The PECASE is the highest honor the U.S. government bestows upon young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. Chasiotis is among 100 individuals being honored in all fields of science and engineering. Other honors over Chasiotis’ career include:
- National Science Foundation Career Award, 2008
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2007
- Xerox Award for Faculty Research from the College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007
- Best Research Paper Award from the 6th International Symposium on MEMS and Nanotechnology, during the Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, 2005.
- American Academy of Mechanics (AAM) Founders Prize and Grant: ASME Congress, 2000
- Charles Babcock Memorial Award: California Institute of Technology, 1999
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Contact: Ioannis Chasiotis, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 217/244-1474.
Writer: Susan Mumm, editor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 217/333-3598.
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