Data Science □ Algorithms □ Parallel Computing □ Business Data Analytics □ Computational Biochemistry.

Building large-scale high-performance computing systems for solving computationally hard problems in computational biochemistry, business data analytics, and computational engineering.

Research results & innovations have been published in 180+ research papers (in peer-reviewed scientific journals or conference proceedings) and have received more than 6,000 citations. 

According to the Stanford-Elsevier list of the world’s most-cited scholars, I rank among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists in data science & AI.

2025 – present: Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, School of Computer Science.

2009 – 2025: Chancellor’s Professor, School of Computer Science.

2015 – 2022: Founding Director, Institute For Data Science.

2010 – 2020: Fellow, IBM Centre For Advanced Studies, Toronto.

2003 – 2005: Professor of Information Technology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

2000 – 2003 and 2006 – 2008: Director, School of Computer Science.

1986 – 2009: Assistant Professor / Associate Professor / Professor, School of Computer Science.

PhD, Computer Science, University of Würzburg, Germany, 1986.

BCS & MCS, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 1983.