Dr. Sumit Ghosh who presently serves as the chair of the Computer Science Department at The University of Texas at Tyler. He is the recipient of the 2004 IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award. He is the Principal Investigator of a proposal on "Organic Semiconductor Modeling and Simulation," that has been funded by US Senate and US House of Representatives under Special Appropriations through the US Army Research Lab. He received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur (India), and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, CA. Sumit has held the title of Thomas E. Hattrick Endowed Chaired Professor of Information Systems Engineering in the ECE Department at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey; served as the associate chairman for research and graduate programs in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Arizona State University; been on the faculty of Computer Engineering at Brown University, Providence, RI; served as Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs Research (Area 11) in Holmdel, NJ; and worked as Member of the Technical Staff at Fairchild Advanced Research and Development Labs in Palo Alto, CA.

He is the primary author of 5 reference books: Hardware Description Languages: Concepts and Principles (IEEE Press); Modeling and Asynchronous Distributed Simulation of Complex Systems (IEEE Press); Intelligent Transportation Systems: New Principles and Architectures (CRC Press); Principles of Secure Network Systems Design (Springer-Verlag); and Algorithm Design for Networked Information Technology Systems: Principles and Applications (Springer-Verlag). He has co-edited the book titled, Guarding Your Business: A Management Approach to Security (Kluwer). He is currently co-editing a book titled, "Cybercrimes," with a former Asst. US Attorney of the US Department of Justice and is completing his sixth reference book for Springer-Verlag that will present the discipline of networking from an entirely new perspective and provide new research directions. He has written 95+ transactions/journal papers and 100+ refereed conference papers. Sumit's research focuses on fundamental and challenging yet practical, interdisciplinary problems that are of potential benefit to society. His most recent interests include radically new types of computing engines, creativity and the physiological organization of the human brain, and a computing principles-based analytical foundation for the empirical disciplines of biology, business, chemistry, medicine, pharmacology, and law.

Sumit's research has been funded by US Army Research Office, US Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, US Army Research Lab, US Air Force Research Lab (Rome, NY), US Army Communications and Electronics Command (NJ), National Security Agency, Sandia National Labs, National Library of Medicine, MOTOROLA, INTEL, BELLCORE, NYNEX, MITRE, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Korea), IEEE Foundation, and US Congress.