Faculty of Engineering

The University Research Chair of Dr. Paola Flocchini has been renewed

September 13, 2010

Paola Flocchini’s University research chair in distributed computing in unsafe environments has been renewed. These University chairs are established to recognize outstanding accomplishments in research by professors who maintain a solid teaching record. Professor Flocchini teaches at the School of Information Technology and Engineering.

Paola Flocchini is an internationally recognized scholar whose work in the area of distributed mobile agents has made significant contributions to the critical issue of security in networked environments under the threat of viruses, spyware and harmful hosts. While the methodology of her work belongs to the realm of theoretical computer science, Flocchini is motivated by the practical issues and considerations of evolving communication technologies. Drawing on continued technical contributions, international visibility and the support that comes from a variety of funding sources, her proposed research with mobile agents shows great promise of developing new and effective methods for countering the spread of these “intruder” agents, thus establishing a solid first step in “cleaning” networked environments.

Flocchini’s work has been instrumental in several innovations that have advanced our understanding of distributed computations and distributed computability. Her research on computability by autonomous mobile robots and on their coordination and control has been particularly influential—it has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years and generated a substantial amount of follow-up among the international research community.
The Faculty of Engineering wishes to congratulate Paola Flocchini on the renewal of her research chair.

Paola Flocchini’s awards and accomplishments

  • Ontario’s Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA), 2002

  • NATO Advanced Research Fellowship, 1996

  • Associate editor, New Generation Computing (Springer Verlag) 

  • Associate editor, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (Hindawi)

  • Guest editor, Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier)

  • Author of over 100 full papers in refereed journals and international conferences

  • Program committee member for more than 30 international conferences

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