Friday 10 April 2020

Computer systems expert named as head of electrical & computer engineering

A national leader in computer systems has been chosen as the new department head for electrical & computer engineering within Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering.

Samee Khan will begin his new role as department head on August 1, 2020, pending approval of the State Board of Trustees, Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning. He comes to Mississippi State from North Dakota State University, where he served as professor of electrical and computer engineering. From July 2016, he has been on leave from NDSU to serve at the National Science Foundation as program director and lead for the Computer Systems Research Cluster within the Division of Computer and Network Systems.

“I feel humbled and entry level computer science jobs to be selected to serve the faculty, staff, and students of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,” Khan said. “During my visit to Mississippi State, I was impressed with the departmental facilities, both instructional and research laboratories, and especially the High Voltage Laboratory – a truly unique enterprise.”

Khan’s research on computer systems (focusing on optimization, security, and robustness) has appeared in over 400 publications. Currently, he is the associate editor-in-chief of the IEEE IT Professional Magazine and associate editor of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and the ACM Computing Surveys. Previously, he has been on the editorial boards on IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine, IEEE Access, and IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He is also a ACM Distinguished Speaker an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

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