Özalp Babaoğlu

Özalp Babaoğlu (born August 10, 1955, in Ankara, Turkey), is a Turkish/American computer scientist. He is currently "Professore Alma Mater" at the University of Bologna, Italy where he was a Full Professor of computer science from 1988 to 2025. He is also President of the [https://foundation.elicsir.it/ ELICSIR Foundation].

Babaoğlu received a Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the recipient of 1982 ''Sakrison Memorial Award'', 1989 UNIX International ''Recognition Award'' and 1993 USENIX Association ''Lifetime Achievement Award'' for his contributions to the UNIX system community and to ''Open Industry Standards''. Before moving to Bologna in 1988, Babaoğlu was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He has participated in several European research projects in distributed computing and complex systems. Babaoğlu is an ACM Fellow and has served as a resident fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna and on the editorial boards for ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, [https://dl.acm.org/journal/taas ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems] and [https://www.springer.com/journal/446 Springer-Verlag Distributed Computing].

Babaoğlu is an avid cyclist and has a son and daughter. Provided by Wikipedia