Gul Agha

Who is Gul Agha?

Gul Agha is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Director of the Open Systems Laboratory. He is known for his work on the Actor model of concurrent computation, and was also Editor-in-Chief of ACM Computing Surveys from 1999 to 2007.

Agha received his Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Science from the University of Michigan in 1986, under the supervision of John Holland. However, much of his doctoral research was carried out in Carl Hewitt's Message-Passing Semantics Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Agha's dissertation was published by the MIT Press as Actors: a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems, a book which, according to the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, has been cited over 300 times. According to Google Scholar, his research have been cited over 10,000 times... Agha was born and completed his early schooling in Sindh, Pakistan. He received his B.S. with honors from the California Institute of Technology in 1977.