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Last modified: August 12, 2008  
University of Florida

Dr. Jose FortesJOSE A. B. FORTES
Professor and BellSouth Eminent Scholar

 

Education:

PhD, EE, University of Southern California, 1984
MS, EE, Colorado State University, 1981
BSEE, Universidade de Angola, 1978

Contact Information:

Email: fortes@ufl.edu
Phone: 352-392-9265
Office: 339 Larsen Hall
Homepage: www.acis.ufl.edu/fortes/

Program Affiliation:

Area: Computer Engineering
Lab:  Advanced Computing and Information Systems

Fields of Interest:

  • Network computing
  • Advanced computing architecture
  • Biologically inspired nanocomputing
  • Distributed information processing systems

Employment:

2001 - Professor and BellSouth Eminent Scholar, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida
1999 - Professor and Assistant Head for Education, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University
1995 - Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University
1993 - Visiting Professor, Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
1989 - Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Purdue University
1987 - Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Purdue University
1984 - Visiting Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Purdue University

Refereed Journals in the Last 3 Years:

2007
Matsunaga, Andréa; Tsugawa, Maurício; Adabala, Sumalatha; Figueiredo, Renato; Lam, Herman; and Fortes, José. “Science gateways made easy: the In-VIGO approach”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 19, Issue 6, Wiley Press, 2007.

Contracts and Grants:

  • National Science Foundation, "DDDAS-TMRP: Dynamic Data Driven Brain Machine Interfaces"
  • Intel Corp., "QoS in a Virtualized Data Center" 

Honors and Awards:

1999 - IEEE Fellow

Patents:

  • Application #11/104,141 - "Time-mode analog computation circuits and methods," with V. Ravinuthula and J.Fortes.