Dr. Arun K. Somani is currently an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in electrical and computer engineering at Iowa State University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, in 1983 and 1985, respectively. Dr. Arun K. Somani was a Scientific Officer with the Government of India, New Delhi, and a Faculty Member of the University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests include computer system design, architecture, fault-tolerant computing, computer interconnection networks, optical networking, and reconfigurable and parallel computer systems. In addition, he served as an IEEE Distinguished Visitor, an IEEE Distinguished Tutorial Speaker, and an IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Visitor. He delivered several keynote speeches, and distinguished and invited talks all over the world. Dr. Arun K. Somani is also a Distinguished Engineer of ACM, an Eminent Engineer of Tau Beta Pi, and a fellow of AAAS.
