EAB Members: Prof. Fatos Xhafa

Fatos Xhafa is Full Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. He received his PhD in Computer Science in 1998 from the Department of Computer Science of BarcelonaTech. He was a Visiting Professor at University of Surrey (2019/2020), Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK (2009/2010) and a Research Associate at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA (2004/2005). Prof. Xhafahas widely published in peer reviewed international journals, conferences/workshops, book chapters and edited books and proceedings in the field (Scopus h-index 41 as of October 2020). He is awarded teaching and research merits by Spanish Ministry of Science and Education, by IEEE conference and best paper awards. 

Prof. Xhafa serves as a reviewer for international journals and books from major publishers and acts as a member of Editorial Boards and as a Guest Editor of Special Issues. He is Editor in Chief of the Elsevier IoT Journal, Editor in Chief of IJGUC Journal, Inderscience, Editor in Chief of the Elsevier Book Series Intelligent Data-Centric Systems and of the Springer Book Series Lecture Notes in Data Engineering and Communication Technologies. He is a member of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society and Emerging Technical Subcommittee of Internet of Things. 

His research interests include parallel and distributed algorithms, massive data processing and collective intelligence, IoT and networking, P2P and Cloud-to-thing continuum computing, optimization, security and trustworthy computing, machine learning and data mining, among others. Further biographical  information for Prof. Xhafacan be found at https://www.cs.upc.edu/~fatos/ and at his Scopus ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6569-5497