Zary Segall

Endowed Chair Professor in Scalable Mobile Services at The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden and Adjunct Professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland - UMBC

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Zary Segall is an Endowed Chair Professor at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, Scientific Director of the Dept. of Communication at KTH, Director of the Mobile Media and Services KTH Lab, Activity Lead in EIT/ICT Labs and Adjunct Professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland - UMBC.

Prior of joining the University of Maryland as a Distinguished Professor, Dr. Segall was Professor and Dept. Head at University of Oregon and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. As part of his research activity, he had developed theoretical methods and practical systems for parallel processing, highly dependable systems, networking and wearable information systems. This work led to software licensing to IBM, AT&T, GE and NASA and to applications to parallel processing, NASA missions, Air Traffic Control and telecommunication services.

His current research work is in Human Aware Wearable Computing, Future Media, Scalable Mobile Services and Semantic Light.

Dr. Segall is a fellow of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Fulbright Distinguished IT Chair.

Research Areas:

Dr. Segall's current research focus on:

  • Scalable Mobile Services

  • Wearable Computers

  • Semantic Info-light

  • Human Aware Computing

Recent work: mobiSLIM, COSEM, SeRMon.