Josep Díaz - Curriculum Vitae#
Josep Díaz (http://www.lsi.upc.edu/ diaz/ diaz@lsi.upc.edu)
Born: March 15,1950
PhD (Doctor en Ciencias) from Universidad de Valencia, 1982
Present and Previous Positions:
- 1984 -today Full Professor in Computer Science at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC)
- 1979-1984 Lecturer at the UPC
- 1977-1979 Instructor of Mathematics at the Riverside City College
- 1975-1977 Scholarship at the Computer Science Lab. in the Mathematics Department of the University of California Riverside.
Fields of Scholarship:
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Randomized Techniques in Combinatorics and Graph Theory
- Complexity Theory
- Algorithms for Data Spreading in Large Dynamic Networks
- Approximation Algorithms
- Game Theory
Honours and Awards:
- Member of Academia Europaea 2012
- Spanish National Prize in Computer Science, Jose Garca Santesmases (2011)
- Senior Distinction for the promotion of the research given by the Catalan Government (2002)
Positions in International Scientific Organizations:
- 2010 - 2013: Member of the Gödel Award Committee
- 2005 - 2008: One of the four external members in the Advisory Committee for the Japanese initiative New Horizonts in Computing
- 1999-2003: Member of the advisory body of the Inamory Foundation, for the Kyoto Prize
- 1997-2002: President of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
- 1997-2002: Member of the executive committee of ACM-SIGACT
- 1995-1997: Vice-president of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
- 1998-2008: Spanish representative in the TC-1 of IFIP
Also:
- 2006-today: Editor-in-Chief, of Computer Science Reviews (Elsevier).
- 1998-today: Member of the editorial board of Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier).
- 1986-1990: Member of the editorial board of Theoretical Informatics and Applications (Dunod).
- 1991-2001: Member of the editorial board of Journal of Universal Computer Science.
Conference organization and/or Chair of the PC:
ICALP, ESA, RANDOM, CIAC, CAAP, TAP-SOFT.
EC Research Projects:
Josep Diaz has been the General Coordinator of a large European Project COMBSTRU (2002-2006), and the main local researcher/leader in the EC projects: WISEBED (2008-2011), FRONTS (2008-2011), DELIS (2004-2008) COMBSTRU (2002-2006) (in this one General Coordinator), FLAGS (2002-2004), ALCOM-FT (1999-2003), ALCOM-IT (1995-1998), ALCOM-II (1992-1994), ALCOM(1989-1992).