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José Fortes is a Professor and AT&T Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He directs the Advanced Computing and Information Systems (ACIS) Laboratory and leads major NSF-funded initiatives, including iDigBio and CENTRA. His research focuses on distributed systems, cloud computing, and autonomic computing, with applications in e-Science and digital government.
Education:
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1984
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University, 1981
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Universidade de Angola, 1978
Research Interests: Distributed information processing systems, autonomic computing, software-defined systems, dependable systems, human-machine cooperative intelligence, biodiversity informatics, parallel processing, and fault-tolerant computing.
Key Achievements:
- Recipient of the University of Florida's Teacher/Scholar of the Year (2020) and SEC Faculty Achievement Award (2021)
- Former NSF Program Director for Microelectronics Systems Architecture (1989–1990)
- Editorial Board Member of major journals including IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems
Labs/Teams: Director of the Advanced Computing and Information Systems (ACIS) Laboratory, a hub for cyberinfrastructure development and interdisciplinary research.
