Ahmed H. Sameh Professor of Computer Science sameh@cs.purdue.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, 1968
M.S. in Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1964
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1961

Employment History

Awards & Honors

• Phi Kappa Phi; Sigma Xi.
• Fulbright Fellow, 1963-1964.
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students: Fall `74, Fall `75, Fall `78, Spring `80, Spring `81, Spring `82, Fall `82, Spring `83.
• Appointed an Associate in the Center for Advanced Study on a full-time basis for two semesters of the 1991-92 academic year. (Declined in order to accept position of Head of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota.)
• William Norris Chair in Large Scale Computing, 1991-1992, 1993-1996.
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993-present.
• Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science, 1997-present.
• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1998-present.
• Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1999-present.
• IEEE's 1999 Harry Goode Award for "seminal and influential work in parallel numerical algorithms".

Areas of Research

• Parallel Algorithms in Numerical Linear Algebra.

Editorships of Journals

• Editorial Board of International Journal of Parallel Programming, 1998-present.
• Editor, IEEE Computational Science & Engineering, 1993-present.
• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Computational Science & Engineering, 1993-1995.
• Editor, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 1992-present.
• Managing Editor, International Journal of High Speed Computing, 1988-1993.
• Editor, Computer Physics Communications, 1986-1991.
• Editor, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 1986-1988.
• Editorial Board of Parallel Computing, 1984-present.
• Assoc. Editor of it SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, 1984-1989.
• Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers, 1983-1987.
• Advisory Board of Computing, 1976-1978.

Other Scholarly Activities

• International Conference on Parallel Processing, Program Co-Chairman, 1980.

• National Research Council Panel for NIST Computing, 1987-1992.
• International Conference on Supercomputing, Conference Co-Chairman, 1990.

• Member of the External Advisory Committee for the Kentucky NSF/EPSCoR Grant, 1992-1994.

• Advisory Committee, 10-th International Parallel Processing Symposium, 1996.

• Universities Space Research Association, Consultant, 1992-1997.

Professional Memberships

• Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
• Fellow, The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)