UK Board of Trustees Selects Sherali Zeadally as a University Research Professorship Award Recipient

Sherali Zeadally recently became the first professor from the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information to receive the prestigious University Research Professorship Award.

The University Research Professorship Award recognizes outstanding research achievement throughout the University and has been given annually by the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees since its establishment in 1976.  The award includes $10,000 to enable professors to devote more time to their research or to support research activities.

This year, the UK Board of Trustees selected seventeen winners of the award.  Zeadally is grateful to be one of them.

“I am humbled, and at the same time, delighted to receive this highly prestigious university research award,” Zeadally said.

“However, I’d like to stress that this prestigious research award is the result of a strong team effort involving my brilliant students and world-class research collaborators from around the world,” Zeadally said. “I am thankful to all my colleagues in the College of Communication and Information and the University of Kentucky for their recognition of my research productivity and accomplishments over the last couple of years.”

Because of his research, Zeadally’s many published and peer-reviewed articles often become incorporated into the material he teaches in networking and security classes at UK. To date, he has edited or authored six books as well as over 20 international peer-reviewed international conference or workshop proceedings, authored or co-authored more than 260 refereed publications including 150 international peer-reviewed journal papers and 32 refereed book chapters. He has also co-guest-edited over 30 special issues of international refereed journals.

Zeadally is the editor-in-chief of two peer-reviewed international journals. He also currently serves as associate editor or editorial board member for more than 25 international refereed journals.

In addition to this University Research Professor Award, in the last five years, Zeadally was the recipient of one other university award, 11 international awards and two national awards.

Zeadally is an associate professor in the School of Information Science within the College of Communication and Information and teaches in the College’s newest degree program, information communication technology (ICT).

He earned his doctorate degree in computer science at the University of Buckingham, England and conducted postdoctoral work at the School of Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He joined the faculty of the School of Information Science in 2013. Zeadally’s research focuses on computer network and information security.

Zeadally plans to continue publishing his research results in high quality refereed journals and seek grant funding to help sponsor undergraduate and graduate students within the ICT program.