JJ. Garcia-Luna-Aceves is a prominent professor of information technology and engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), holds the Jack Baskin Endowed Chair of Computer Engineering and is the principal scientist at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
Prior to joining UCSC in 1993, he was director of the Center at SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California. Dr. Garcia-Luna-Aceves holds 66 U.S. patents and has published more than 500 articles in magazines, conferences, and books, and was chairman of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia and chairman of many conferences and a member of many IEEE committees. He has won numerous awards in the field of communication protocol theory and design. Dr. Garcia-Luna-Aceves leads the Computer Communication Research Group (CCRG) and serves as director of the CITRIS campus and the Banatao Institute.
Professorā€™s J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves research areas are: principles of computer communication, wireless internet, Internet of Things, information-centric networks, cyber-physical networks, mobile and comprehensive data processing.