Maurice Tchuente   Marital status : Married, 4 children. Degrees : Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, INPG, Grenoble, France Doctorat d’Etat ès Sciences Mathématiques (1982), Grenoble Thesis Supervision: Grenoble I (03), Yaounde I (10). Positions : Pro-Chancellor University of Buea (31 dec. 2008, - present), Secretary General ICSU (Nov. 2008 , -), Board Chairman ANTIC (2006), Minister of Higher Education of Cameroon (2002), Rector of the Universities of Douala, Ngaoundere, Dschang (1996 – 2002) Academic Positions : Senior Research Fellow, IRD, France (2008), CNRS (2006), Professor, University of Yaounde I (1992), Associate Professor : Universities of Yaounde I (1986), Grenoble II (1984), Research Fellow CNRS (1977), Lecturer, Univ. of Marseille (1976). Invitations as Professor: Universites of Chile, Paris VI, Rennes 1, Metz, Ouagadougou IAI Libreville, ENS-Lyon. Organization of several International Workshops and Summer Schools: Int. Conf. on Dynamical Systems and Cellular Automata, Proc. Academic Press, September 1984, Int. Conf. on Parallel Algorithms & Architectures, Proc. North Holland, April 1986, ... Editorial Boards of International Journals: Parallel Processing Letters, ARIMA, Editor-in-Chief, TSI, … Awards : Boutros Boutros Ghali Award (1995), C.N.R. Rao Prize for Scientific Research (2008), Best Paper Award ASACS (2009). Honours : Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Valeur (Cameroun),  March 2000, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (France), October 2000, Commandeur de l’Ordre International des Palmes Académiques du Conseil Africain et Malgache de l’Enseignement Supérieur (CAMES), April 2002. Membership of Academies :  Cameroon  Academy of Sciences The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) Publications : Books and Proceedings Dynamical Systems and Cellular Automata, J. Demongeot, E. Goles and M. Tchuente (eds), Academic Press, 1985 Automata Networks in Computer Science, Theory and Applications, F. Fogelman Soulie, Y. Robert and M. Tchuente (eds), Nonlinear Science Series, Manchester University Press, 1987. Parallel Computation on Regular Arrays, Manchester University Press, 1991. Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, Proceedings of  the International Workshop on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, North Holland, M. Cosnard, Y. Robert, P. Quinton and M. Tchuente (eds), 1986. More than 80 papers in International Journals  and Proceedings of International Conferences