Research Profile - Dr. Johnnie Baker
Johnnie Baker received his bachelors degree from Hardin-Simmons University and his masters and Ph.D. degree from University of Texas in Austin. He was a faculty member at Florida State University prior to joining the faculty at Kent State University in 1973. In addition to computer science, he also has publications in mathematics (both Banach Spaces and general topology) and computational chemistry. He has graduated 2 Ph.D students and 20 masters students and is currently supervising 5 Ph.D. and 2 masters students. He is a member of both ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. He has refereed for numerous conferences and journals, and since 1991 he has served as an editor for Parallel Processing Letters. He is currently the Computer Science Departmental Chair. He served as Departmental Assistant Chair from 1990 through 2001. Home Page
Research areas
Parallel and distributed computing, parallel computational models
Parallel algorithms, associative computing
Joint data and control parallelism, massively parallel architectures
Air traffic control, computational chemistry, molecular similarity analysis