Fargo, N.D. – Samee U. Khan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at NDSU, has received the 2012 Chinese Academy of Sciences Young International Scientist Fellowship. The fellowship’s aim is to foster close collaborations between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and international researchers. Khan will work with academy researchers in the newly established Center for Cloud Computing at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology.

“The Center for Cloud Computing has state-of-the-art facilities, which makes it a very attractive proposition for international researchers,” Khan said.

Khan chairs the steering committee for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Technical Area of Green Computing. The technical area promotes research and education on the general topic of green computing that covers domains, such as cloud computing, utility computing, cluster computing, supercomputing and cyberinfrastructures.

“I feel honored to be selected for the fellowship. I hope that I can form close collaborations with academy researchers and also interface NDSU researchers with the Chinese Academy to address research issues related to the energy efficiency in cloud computing,” Khan said.

Khan is an adjunct professor in the NDSU computer science department and an adjunct professor of computer science at the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South Asia Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan.