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UK Professor Wins Silver Jubilee Professorship Award

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 16, 2016) — University of Kentucky School of Information Science Associate Professor Sherali Zeadally has received the Silver Jubilee Visiting Professorship Award from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth, Australia. Zeadally is the recipient of one of the four ECU Silver Jubilee Visiting Professorships to host outstanding researchers and international research leaders from overseas academic institutions.

Zeadally is currently at the university giving a series of lectures and workshops on various topics related to his research.

At UK, Zeadally teaches in the College of Communication and Information's School of Information Science's newest program, Information and Communication Technology. Focusing on computer network and information security, he is the editor-in-chief of two peer-reviewed international journals and currently serves/has served as associate editor or editorial board member for more than 25 international refereed journals. He has also edited or authored six books and authored/co-authored more than 268 refereed publications, including over 155 international peer-reviewed journal papers and 32 refereed book chapters.

In addition to the Silver Jubilee Visiting Professorship Award in the summer of 2016, Zeadally is the recipient of several outstanding research and teaching university awards, 11 international awards and several prestigious national awards.

After earning his doctoral degree in computer science at the University of Buckingham, in England, he conducted postdoctoral work at the School of Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He joined the faculty of the UK School of Information Science in 2013 and was named a University Research Professor by the UK Board of Trustees in 2016.

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