Author

Sukumar Ghosh is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, since 1995. He earned his PhD (computer science and engineering) from Calcutta University, Calcutta, India, in 1971 and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Dortmund, Germany, as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His research interests are in distributed systems, with special emphasis on dynamic distributed systems; fault-tolerant, self-stabilizing, and autonomic distributed systems; and peer-to-peer networks. He has published more than 100 research papers and 5 book chapters on these topics and has supervised 16 PhD students.

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