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Paul Ward is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He serves as the Associate Director of Software Engineering and is a faculty fellow at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies. Professor Ward specializes in distributed systems and computer networks, with a focus on dependable self-managing distributed systems and their management. His research also delves into fault detection and diagnosis in web services. In the area of networks, he has worked on raising the abstraction level of networks from basic packet delivery to service-oriented networks, addressing issues such as service discovery and the coupling of functional and non-functional attributes. Professor Ward studies problems related to capacity and fairness in wireless mesh networks as well as routing in delay-tolerant networks. He is a co-holder of multiple patents, including those for novel methods in mobile web services discovery and solving application failures through social collaboration.
Includes fields like Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology.