His research focus is on the broader areas of parallel and distributed computing systems and their applications, optimization algorithms, multimedia systems, video compression, assistive technologies, smart power grid, and energy-aware sustainable computing. His research work is published in 250 articles in books, and peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Professor Ishfaq Ahmad's current research is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, National Science Foundation, Department of Education, Semiconductor Research Corporation, Adobe Inc. and Texas Instruments. He is leading several efforts in sustainable computing and computing for sustainability. This includes launching of a new journal with Elsevier, of which he is the founding editor-in-chief, and launching of the .
Awards
Professor Ishfaq Ahmad has received numerous international research awards, including several best paper awards at leading conferences proceedings and top ranked journals, such as IEEE Circuits and Systems Society – 2007 Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Transactions Best Paper Award,IEEE Service Appreciation Award, and 2008 Outstanding Area Editor Award from the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. His research work in high-performance computing and video compression is widely cited with over 17,000 citations to his papers. He is listed in . He is a :Category:Fellow Members of the IEEE|Fellow of IEEE.
Other Appointments
In addition to being a full-time professor at University of Texas at Arlington, he is also
Visiting scientist at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York
Visiting scientist at the Institute of Computing Technology in Beijing, China
Honorary professor at the University of Electronic Sciences at Chengdu, China
Honorary professor at the Amity University in India and UAE
Co-founder of the International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference
In addition, he has served as editor of ', IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
Notable Publications
. Ishfaq Ahmad and Sanjay Ranka, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group LLC, Jan. 2012, two volumes, over 1200 pages.
Handbook of Exascale Computing. Sanjay Ranka and Ishfaq Ahmad. Under publication, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, expected mid-2018.
Static scheduling algorithms for allocating directed task graphs to multiprocessors. YK Kwok, Ishfaq Ahmad, ACM Computing Surveys 31, 406-471.
Dynamic critical-path scheduling: An effective technique for allocating task graphs to multiprocessors. YK Kwok, Ishfaq Ahmad, IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems 7, 506-521.
Benchmarking and comparison of the task graph scheduling algorithms. YK Kwok, Ishfaq Ahmad, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 59, 381-422.
Video transcoding: an overview of various techniques and research issues. Ishfaq Ahmad, X Wei, Y Sun, YQ Zhang, IEEE Transactions on multimedia 7, 793-804.
Power-rate-distortion analysis for wireless video communication under energy constraints. Z He, Y Liang, L Chen, Ishfaq Ahmad, D Wu, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 15, 645-658.
On exploiting task duplication in parallel program scheduling. Ishfaq Ahmad, YK Kwok, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 9, 872-892.
Optimal task assignment in heterogeneous distributed computing systems. M Kafil, Ishfaq Ahmad, IEEE concurrency 6, 42-50.
Efficient scheduling of arbitrary task graphs to multiprocessors using a parallel genetic algorithm. YK Kwok, Ishfaq Ahmad, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 47, 58-77.
A cooperative game theoretical technique for joint optimization of energy consumption and response time in computational grids. SU Khan, Ishfaq Ahmad, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 20, 346-360.
An integrated technique for task matching and scheduling onto distributed heterogeneous computing systems. MK Dhodhi, I Ahmad, A Yatama, I Ahmad, Journal of parallel and distributed computing 62, 1338-1361.
A fast adaptive motion estimation algorithm. Ishfaq Ahmad, W Zheng, J Luo, M Liou, IEEE Transactions on circuits and systems for video technology 16, 420-438.
