Dr Zaslavsky is a Senior
Principal Research Scientist and Leader of the Semantic Data Management science
area. Before coming to CSIRO in July 2011, he held a position of a Chaired
Professor in Pervasive and Mobile Computing at Lulea
University of Technology, Sweden where he was involved in a number of European
research projects, collaborative projects with Ericsson Research, PhD
supervision and postgraduate education.
Between 1992 and 2008 Arkady was a full-time academic staff member at Monash
University, Australia, where he held various academic and administrative
positions including Director of Monash Research Centre for Distributed Systems
and Software Engineering, Director of Monash CoolCampus
initiative that brought together pervasive computing researchers with
university users. He was a Principal Investigator at CRC DSTC (Distributed
Systems Technology Centre) leading and contributing to the DSTC project M3:
Enterprise Architecture for Mobile computations. He led and was involved in a
number of research projects funded by ARC (ARC Discovery and Linkage) and
industry, both at national and international level, totalling in support more
than AU$ 12,000,000.
He chaired and organised many international workshops and
conferences, including Mobile Data Management, Pervasive Services, Mobile and
Ubiquitous Multimedia and others. Arkady made
internationally recognised contribution in the area of disconnected transaction
management and replication in mobile computing environments, context-awareness
as well as in mobile agents. He made significant internationally recognised
contributions in the areas of data stream mining on mobile devices, adaptive
mobile computing systems, ad-hoc mobile networks, efficiency and reliability of
mobile computing systems, mobile agents and mobile file systems.
Arkady received MSc in Applied Mathematics majoring in
Computer Science from Tbilisi State University (Georgia, USSR) in 1976 and PhD
in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute for Control Sciences (IPU-IAT),
USSR Academy of Sciences in 1987. Before coming to Australia in 1991, Arkady worked in various research positions at industrial
R&D labs as well as at the Institute for Computational Mathematics of Georgian
Academy of Sciences where he lead a systems software research laboratory. Arkady Zaslavsky has published
more than 300 research publications throughout his professional career and
supervised to completion more than 30 PhD students. For more information