{"622223":{"#nid":"622223","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mostafa Ammar Named SCS Interim Chair","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe names of interim chairs were announced this weekend for two of the College of Computing\u0026rsquo;s three schools.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESrinivas Aluru\u003C\/strong\u003E is now interim chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (CSE). \u003Cstrong\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/strong\u003E will take the helm of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E (SCS) as interim chair beginning August 16.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe announcement came Sunday in an email to faculty from \u003Cstrong\u003EZvi Galil\u003C\/strong\u003E, the John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are fortunate to have experienced leaders to guide these schools for the near term. Srinivas and Mostafa are each well known to their respective faculty, staff, and students, and will continue pushing forward as each school searches for its new chair,\u0026rdquo; Galil said. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ammar\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAmmar\u003C\/a\u003E is a Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor with SCS and served as the associate chair of the school from 2006 to 2012. His research interests are in network architectures, protocols, and services. He is a fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and of the Association for Computing Machinery.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~saluru\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAluru\u003C\/a\u003E is a CSE professor who also serves as the co-director for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ideas.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Engineering and Science\u003C\/a\u003E. His research interests are high-performance computing, data science, bioinformatics, and systems biology. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2vuYX1n\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E[RELATED:\u0026nbsp;Fortnow Leaving Georgia Tech for Dean\u0026#39;s Position]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Long-time Professor Mostafa Ammar will be the interim chair."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-06-04 17:31:46","changed_gmt":"2019-06-04 17:39:23","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"612372":{"id":"612372","type":"image","title":"Mostafa Ammar ","body":null,"created":"1538707923","gmt_created":"2018-10-05 02:52:03","changed":"1538707923","gmt_changed":"2018-10-05 02:52:03","alt":"Mostafa Ammar ","file":{"fid":"233104","name":"Mostafa_MG_4421.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mostafa_MG_4421.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mostafa_MG_4421.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":283753,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Mostafa_MG_4421.jpg?itok=8AO3hwf3"}}},"media_ids":["612372"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"46361","name":"GT computing"},{"id":"9152","name":"zvi galil"},{"id":"181451","name":"aluru"},{"id":"181452","name":"ammar"},{"id":"181453","name":"interim chairs"},{"id":"166940","name":"SCS"},{"id":"4305","name":"cse"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnn Claycombe, Communications Director\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ann.claycombe@cc.gatech.edu?subject=Interim%20Chairs\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eann.claycombe@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ann.claycombe@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}