Athman Bouguettaya - Biography#

Athman Bouguettaya is Professor and previous Head of School of Computer Science, at the University of Sydney, Australia. He was previously Professor and Head of School of Computer Science and IT at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He was also previously Science Leader in Service Computing at the CSIRO ICT Centre (now DATA61), Canberra. Australia. Before that, he was a tenured faculty member and Program director in the Computer Science department at Virginia Tech (USA). He is or has been on the editorial boards of several journals including, the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, The ACM Computing Surveys, the International Journal on Next Generation Computing, VLDB Journal, Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, and the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer-Verlag book series on Services Science. He served as the General Chair of 2021 IEEE ICWS and ICSOC 2020. He served as a Program Chair of the 2012 and 2017 WISE Conference and 2008 International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC). He has published more than 280 books, book chapters, and articles in journals and conferences in the area of service computing and databases (e.g., IEEE TKDE, the ACM TWeb, WWW Journal, VLDB Journal, SIGMOD, ICDE, VLDB, and EDBT). He was the recipient of several federally competitive grants in Australia (e.g., ARC), the US (e.g., NSF, NIH), Qatar (NPRP). EU (FP7), and China (NSFC). He also won major industry grants from companies like HP and Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and IEEE Distinguished Visitor. He is a WISE Conference Fellow, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM.