5-Day Workshop on
High Performance Computing
(A Short Hands-on Tutorial on Programming Parallel/Distributed Platforms)
August 7th – 11th, 2006
at GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology, Swabi in collaboration with
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
The Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute aspires to act as a catalyst for improvement in technology and research in the field of Engineering Sciences and Technology and to be a model to other institutes to emulate. Thus producing graduates who are distinguished by their commitment to both professional and moral excellence.
About the Lead Instructor:
Dr. Ashfaq A. Khokhar is Professor in the De-partment of Computer Science and Depart-ment of Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) USA.
| |
|
 |
| |
Fig. 4. Dr. Ashfaq A. Khokhar |
| |
|
Dr. Khokhar has published over 120 technical papers and book chapters in refe-reed conferences and archival journals in the area of wireless networks, multimedia systems, data mining, and high performance computing. He has supervised research of numerous PhD and MS students who are currently serving in leading universities, re-search labs, and industry. He is recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 1998. His paper entitled "Scalable S-to-P Broadcasting in Message Passing MPPs" has won the Outstanding Paper award in the International Conference on Parallel Proc-essing in 1996. He has served as the Pro-gram Chair of the 17th Parallel and Distrib-uted Computing Conference (PDCS), 2004, Vice Program Chair for the 33rd Interna-tional Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2004, and General Chair of the Workshop on Frontiers of Information Tech-nology, 2004. Dr. Khokhar has been nomi-nated for IEEE Fellow in 2006. His current research interests include: high performance computing, wireless and sensor networks, multimedia systems, and data mining.
Top of page 
