ICITSC 2026

Ranka Sanjay

Professor, University of Florida, USA.

Research field: Cloud Computing; Concurrency; Parallelism and High-Performance Computing; Data Mining; Database; Data Science and Informatics; Digital Health; Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems; Energy-Aware Computing; Image and Signal Analysis; Internet of Things.

Sanjay Ranka is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida. The focus of his current research is the development of efficient computational methods and data analysis techniques to model scientific phenomenon, and practical applications of focus are improvements to the quality of healthcare and the reduction of traffic accidents. A core aspiration of his research is to develop novel algorithms and software that make an impact on the application domain, exploiting the interdependence between theory and practice of computer science. He has co-authored one book, four monographs, 300+ journals and refereed conference articles. His recent co-authored work has received a best student paper runner-up award at IGARSS 2015, best paper award at BICOB 2014, best student paper award at ACM-BCB 2010, best paper runner-up award at KDD-2009, a nomination for the Robbins Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Physics in Medicine and Biology in 2008, and a best paper award at ICN 2007. He is a fellow of the IEEE and AAAS and a past member of IFIP Committee on System Modeling and Optimization. He won the 2020 Research Impact Award from IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing. He is an associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and an associate editor for ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Sustainable Computing: Systems and Informatics, Knowledge and Information Systems, and International Journal of Computing. Additionally, he is a book series editor for CRC Press for Bigdata. In the past, he has been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and IEEE Transactions on Computers. His work has received 12,800+ citations with an h-index of 55 (based on Google Scholar). He has consulted for several startups and Fortune 500 companies.