» I
am a
Fᴜʟʟ
Pʀᴏꜰᴇssᴏʀ (Catedràtic d'Universitat) at
the Dept. of Computer Science, Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. I received my PhD in
Computer Science from the Dept. of CS at BarcelonaTech
in 1998. I have held various academic positions at
BarcelonaTech and short term positions abroad including
Visiting Professorship at University of Surrey and at
the University of London, UK and a Research Associate at
Drexel University, USA. I am member of IMP-Information Modelling
Processing Research Group of UPC.
» My Rᴇsᴇᴀʀᴄʜ Iɴᴛᴇʀᴇsᴛ include
parallel and distributed algorithms, massive data
processing, collective intelligence, IoT and networking
systems, Grid, P2P and Cloud continuum computing, security and trustworthy computing,
optimization and meta-heuristics. I have
widely published in international journals,
conferences/workshops, books and book chapters. My
research results have received an ample reference and
citation with Google H-INDEX
52 and
Index i10 269, WoS H-Index: 32, SCOPUS H-Index:
41.
My research is supported by more than 20 Research Projects
from Spain, EU and NSF/USA. My research activity is awarded
research merits for the six year periods
1996-2001-2007-2013-2019 (four
sexenios) by
CNEAI,
Spanish Ministry and for the periods
2001-2006-2011/2014-2019 (three
sexenis compl. autonòmic.), teaching merits
for the period 1995-2015 (five
quinquenios) and is evaluated to A/A
in teaching/research by the UPC.
» I
have actively engaged in
Eᴅɪᴛᴏʀɪᴀʟ
Dᴜᴛɪᴇs ᴀɴᴅ Pʀᴏꜰᴇssɪᴏɴᴀʟ Sᴇʀᴠɪᴄᴇs. I am
founder and Editor-In-Chief of
Internet
of Things - Journal - Elsevier and of
International
Journal
of Grid and Utility Computing, (Emerging Sources
Citation Index) and AE/EB Member of several indexed Int'l
Journals.
I am
founder and Editor-in-Chief of two books series: the Springer Book
Series Lecture
Notes in Data Engineering and Communication
Technologies
(SCOPUS, EI Compendex, ISI WoS) and the Elsevier Book Series Intelligent
Data-Centric Systems (SCOPUS, EI Compendex).
I am a member of IEEE Comm. Society, IEEE
Emerging Technical Subcomm. of Internet of Things, IEEE
SMC TC on Computational Collective Intelligence.
» I
Tᴇᴀᴄʜ at
The School of
Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa
founded in 1904, among the largest (more than 4000
students) and top best schools of UPC,
Spain and Europe. The Schools is located at the UPC Campus
Terrassa, a vibrant campus with about 40 research
groups and 23 academic degrees. In the past, I also
taught online at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).
»
Aʙᴏᴜᴛ Mᴇ:
I am native
from Albania where I was graduated in Mathematics from
the
Faculty of Natural Sciencies (FNS),
University
of Tirana (UT), Albania, in 1988. During 1989-1993 I
worked as Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Applied
Mathematics of the FNS, UT, Albania before moving to
Barcelona
where I joined the Techical
University of Catalonia as a Visiting Professor at
the Applied
Mathematics Department, and later entered the Department
of Computer Science as a PhD student and in 1996 as
an Assistant Professor.
🅽🅴🆆🆂
»
Awarded
research merits for the six year
period 2014-2019 (fourth
sexenio) by CNEAI,
Spanish Ministry
» Awarded research merits for the six year period
2014-2019
(third
sexeni)
by AQU, Generalitat de Catalunya.
» Springer
Book
Series LN
in Data Engineering and Communication
Technologies
(indexed Scopus, EI Compendex, ISI
WoS)
»
Released the IOS
book: Advances
in Edge Computing: Massive Parallel Processing
and Applications Eds: Xhafa, Sangaiah
»
Released the IET
book:
Security
and Privacy for Big Data, Cloud Computing and
Applications Eds:
Ren, Wang, Choo, Xhafa