AKL BIO

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

Dr. Akl is Editor in Chief of Parallel Processing Letters (World Scientific Publishing, since 2006, and previously a Regional Editor of the same journal, 1991 - 2006), an Editorial Board Member of Computational Geometry (Elsevier; 1993 -), International Journal of Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems (Taylor and Francis; 2004 -), International Journal of Unconventional Computing (Old City Publishing; 2011 -), and Communications in Applied Geometry (Research India Publications; 2006 -), an Area Editor (Unconventional Computation) of Scalable Computing and Communications (Springer; 2012 - ) 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).

Dr. Akl was winner in 2004 and 2007 of the Howard Staveley Award for Teaching Excellence. He received the Queen's University Prize for Excellence in Research in 2005 and the Queen's University Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision in 2012. He is currently Director of the Queen's School of Computing.

Selected Publications

Dr. Akl 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) and Adaptive Cryptographic Access Control (Springer, 2010).

Journal and Conference Papers Technical Reports Current Research Posters Recent Theses Supervised Recent Book TEDxQueensU Talk A Computational Challenge Non-Universality in Computation Contributions to a Recent Book Chapters in a New Book Inherently Parallel Computations