Ashfaq Khokhar

Professor and Palmer Department Chair, ECE Department, Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa, United States

About

Ashfaq Khokhar received his BSc electrical engineering in 1985 from UET Lahore, Pakistan, M.S. in computer engineering from Syracuse University, in 1989 and Ph.D. in computer engineering from University of Southern California, in 1993. After his Ph.D., he spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. In 1995, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware, where he first served as Assistant Professor and then as Associate Professor. In Fall 2000, Dr. Khokhar joined UIC in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he currently serves on the rank of Professor. Dr. Khokhar has published over 200 technical papers and book chapters in refereed conferences and journals in the area of wireless networks, multimedia systems, data mining, and high performance computing. He is a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to the fields of Multimedia Computing and Databases. Specialties: Multimedia Systems, Parallel Algorithms, Sensor Networks, Data Mining, Bioinformatics

Experience

  • Professor and Palmer Department Chair at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
    Jan 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

  • CEO and CTO at Video Analytica, Inc.
    Jan 2011 - Present · 15 yrs 6 mos

  • University of Illinois at Chicago (19 yrs 8 mos)
    • Adjunct Professor
      Aug 2013 - Aug 2019 · 6 yrs 1 mo

    • Director
      2000 - Aug 2014 · 14 yrs 8 mos

  • Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
    Aug 2013 - Dec 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    Currently on leave of absence.

  • Assistant and Associate Professor at University of Delaware
    Jul 1995 - Aug 2002 · 7 yrs 2 mos