Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal#
| Membership Number: | 5240 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/sumi.helal/en |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5451-4398 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumi-helal-1550241/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - Present Full Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
- 2004 - 2024 Full Professor, University of Florida, USA
- 2017 - 2020 Full Professor and Chair in Digital Health, Lancaster University, UK
- 2011 - 2013 Finland Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro), Aalto University and EIT Digital, Finland
- 1998 - 2004 Associate Professor, University of Florida, USA
- 2000 - 2000 Academic Visitor, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
- 1996 - 1998 Member of the Technical Staff, Microelectronics and Computer Corporation, USA
- 1991 - 1995 Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Internet of Things
- Mobile computing
- Digital health
- Health AI
- Pervasive Computing
- Computing Continuum
Honours and Awards
- 2022 ACM Fellow (Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery)
- 2022 AAIA Fellow (Fellow of the Asia Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association)
- 2020 Computer Society 2020 President-Elect nominee
- 2019 AAAS Fellow (Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science)
- 2018 EIT Fellow (Fellow of the British Institution of Engineering and Technologies)
- 2018 IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core recipient
- 2017 Elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society
- 2015 IEEE Fellow ( Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
- 2013 ACM Outstanding Service Award
- 2011 Finland Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro) Award
- 2011 University of Florida Technology Innovator of the Year
- 2007 Best of SensorExpo Silver Award to Pervasa Inc., a start-up founded by Dr. Helal
