The University of the South Pacific (USP) has appointed Professor Eduard Babulak as the new Professor of Computing Science and Information Systems at the Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment at the USP’s Laucala Campus.

Babulak is an international scholar, researcher, consultant, educator and professional engineer with more than 25 years of teaching experience and industrial experience as a professional engineer and consultant.

An expert-evaluator for the European Commission in Brussels, in June 2007, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), Fellow of British Computer Society (BCS), Nominated Fellow of the IET, nominated distinguished member and senior member of ACM, mentor and senior member of IEEE and served as a Chair of the IEEE Vancouver Ethics, Professional and Conference Committee.

He worked as a Full Professor and head of the MIS Department in Cyprus, held five Visiting Professorships in Canada, Spain, and in the Czech Republic. He also worked as an Associate Professor in California, senior lecturer in the UK, lecturer in Pennsylvania, Germany, Austria, lecture and teaching assistant in Canada and college instructor in Czechoslovakia.

Babulak speaks 14 languages and is a member of the Institution of Engineering Technology (MIET), American Society for Engineering Education (MASEE), American Mathematical Association (MAMA) and Mathematical Society of America (MMSA).