ProfessorAthman Bouguettaya

Professor Athman Bouguettaya received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in the US in 1992. Before joining the University of Sydney as Professor and Head of the School of Computer Sciencein 2016, he was Professor and Head of the School of Computer Science and IT at RMIT University in Melbourne. Prior to this he was Science Leader in Service Computing at the CSIRO ICT Centre (now DATA61) in Canberra, and a tenured faculty member and program director in the Computer Science department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in the US.

Professor Bouguettaya is a founding member and past president of the Service Science Society, a non-profit organisation that aims to form a community of service scientists for the advancement of service science.

He has published more than 220 books, book chapters, journal articles and conference papers in the area of databases and service computing; he is currently editor-in-chief of the Springer-Verlag Services Science book series; and he has served as guest editor of a number of special issues of journals including ACM Transactions on Internet Technology on Semantic Web Services, IEEE Internet Computing on Database Technology on the Web, and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing on Service Query Models.

He has also served on the editorial boards of a number journals including ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, International Journal on Next Generation Computing and VLDB Journal; and as a program chair of the 2017 WISE Conference, the 2012 International Conference on Web and Information System Engineering, the 2010 and 2009 Australasian Database Conferences, the 2008 International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and the 2004 IEEE RIDE Workshop on Web Services for e-Commerce and e-Government.

Professor Bouguettaya has been the recipient of several nationally competitive grants in Australia, the US, the EU, China and Qatar, as well as major industry grants from multinational companies including HP and Sun Microsystems (now Oracle).

He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Fellow Nomination Committee.