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Dr. Richard Aló is the Executive Director of the Center for Computational Sciences and Advanced Distributed Simulation and Executive Director for Grants and Contracts in the College of Sciences and Technology at the University of Houston-Downtown. He has held these positions since 1995. He earned his MA and Ph.D. in Mathematics with minor in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 1965. He has held his current position of professor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Houston since 1982. From 1982 to 1995, he was Chair of the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences at UHD. He has served on several advisory and executive boards, including the Mathematical Association of America’s SUMMA Committee (Support for Undergraduate Minority Mathematics Awareness), Association of Departments of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at Minority Institutions (founding member), Coalition for Diversity in Computing (Chair and also founding member), National Science Board NSF GRPA Committee and Multi Sector Crises Management Center, Board of Directors, Washington. He chaired two national conferences for ADMI and co chaired the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Symposium, Houston, 2001 and the Education Committee for Supercomputing 2002. Dr. Aló was selected as the 2002 Educator of the Year by the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC). He has published over 150 research papers and a graduate text for Cambridge University Press.. Recent areas of investigation include Automatic Decision Making (Artificial Intelligence), Object Recognition (Facial Expression and Gesture Analysis), and Fuzzy Logic. His primary research and educational interests are computational science applications, grid computing and cyber infrastructure tools, automated reasoning and decision making. He is currently PI on the NSF CI-TEAM Implementation award Minority Serving Institutions – CyberInfrastructure Empowerment Coalition (MSI-CIEC) and co PI on the NSF Broadening Participation award, Computing Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institutions.
