Selim G. Akl (Ph.D. McGill, 1978)
Selim G. Akl is a professor at
Queen's University in the
School of Computing,
where he leads the
Parallel and Unconventional Computation Group.
His research interests
are primarily in the area of algorithm design and analysis,
in particular for problems in
parallel computing and
unconventional computation.
Activities
He is editor in chief of
Parallel Processing Letters (World Scientific Publishing; 1991 -), and an editorial board member of
Computational Geometry (Elsevier; 1993 -),
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems
(Taylor and Francis; 2004 -), and
Communications in Applied Geometry (Research India Publications; 2006 -),
a founding editorial board member of International Journal of High
Performance Computing and Networking (Inderscience Publishers; 2003 -), and a past editor
of Journal of Cryptology (Springer-Verlag; 1988 - 1991),
Information Processing Letters (North-Holland; 1989 - 1999),
and Parallel Algorithms and Applications (Taylor and Francis; 1991 - 2004).
He is currently Director
of the School of Computing.
Selected Publications
He is author of
Parallel Sorting Algorithms
(Academic Press, 1985),
The Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms
(Prentice Hall, 1989), and
Parallel Computation: Models and Methods
(Prentice Hall, 1997).
He is the co-author of Parallel Computational Geometry
(Prentice Hall, 1993).
Journal and Conference papers
Technical reports
Current Research Posters
Recent theses supervised
A Computational Challenge
Contributions to recent book
Conference
International Conference on Unconventional Computation 2007
Contact Information
School of Computing
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
K7L 3N6
Phone: (613) 533-3184, 533-6062 or 533-6050
Fax: (613) 533-6513
akl at cs dot queensu dot ca
Last Updated: December 21, 2007
