Dr. Gurdeep S. Hura

Dr. Gurdeep S. Hura received his Ph.D. from University of Roorkee (India) in 1985. He held a Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada during 1984-1985 academic year, and then he joined the faculty of Computer Science and Engineering of Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio (USA) in 1985-1992. He joined Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Virginia University Institute of Technology, Montgomery, West Virginia as a Professor and Chair in Jan 2005. He moved to University of Maryland Eastern Shore as a Professor and Chair of Department of Maths and Computer Science in July 2006. His research interests include Petri net modeling and their applications, computer networks and network security, software engineering, distributed systems. He is an author/co-author of over hundred technical papers, which were published, in International IEEE journals and conferences. He guest edited special issues on “Petri nets and related graph models: Past, Present and Future”, 1991, “The Practice of Performance modeling and reliability analysis”, 1996, and “Internet: The state of the art”, Computer Communication (Elsevier, UK), 1998. He is an editor of Computer Communications (Elsevier) and International Journal of Electronics and Reliability and Regional Editor of Journal of Integrated design and Process control (SDPS). He was elevated to Fellow of Society for Design and Process Science in 2002. He is a senior member of IEEE and was a member of ACM (1987-1989). He was Chairman of IEEE Computer Society (Dayton Chapter) from 1988-1990. He has presented a number of Invited papers in various IEEE conferences. He has written a chapter on “Local Area Networks, Wide Area Networks, and Metropolitan Area Networks: An Overview” in Computer Engineering Handbook McGraw-Hill, 1992 and another chapter on, “Use of Petri nets in System Reliability Evaluation” in the forthcoming book on “Current issues in System Reliability Evaluation” (Elsevier Publishing Co.1993). He has written a book (with Mukesh Singhal) on “Data and Computer Communications: Networking and internetworking”, CRC Press, 2001. He has been invited to write a chapter on High Speed Networks in the forthcoming Handbook of Computer Engineering, John Wiley, 2006. He is CAC ABET evaluator and serves on the NSF panel review of CISE.