The 20th IASTED International Conference on
Modelling and Simulation
~MS 2009~

July 6 – 8, 2009
Banff, Alberta, Canada

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Prof. Reda S. Alhajj
University of Calgary, Canada

Biography of the Conference Chair

Conference Chair Portrait

Reda Alhajj received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering in 1988 from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Later, he obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering and Information Sciences from Bilkent University, Ankara in 1990 and 1993, respectively. Currently, he is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He published over 220 papers in refereed international journals and conferences. Dr. Alhajj's primary work and research interests are in the areas of character recognition, biocomputing and biodata analysis, data mining, data models, data grid, mobile databases, multiagent systems, object-oriented databases, query languages, schema integration and re-engineering, and XML.