!!!Josep Diaz

[{Image src='Diaz.jpg' caption='' alt='Diaz' width='200' class='image_left' height='267' popup='false'}]Josep Diaz is Professor in Computer Science at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain


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).












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