Past Distinguished Speakers of CSCE

Prof. David Patterson
Fellow: IEEE, ACM, AAAS & Member, National Academy of Engineering; Shared with John Hennessy, the IEEE John von Neumann Medal; University of California, Berkeley
(Pioneering contributions to RISC processor design)

Prof. Ian Foster
Fellow: ACM, AAAS, BCS; Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Lab.; Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago
(Introduced Grid Computing)

The Late Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
Fellow: IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AAAI, IFSA; Member: National Academy of Engineering University of California, Berkeley
(Father of Fuzzy Logic)

Prof. H. J. Siegel
Fellow: IEEE & ACM; Distinguished Professor Colorado State University (formerly at Purdue)
(Pioneering contributions to Heterogeneous Computing)

The Late Prof. John Holland
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan
(Father of Genetic Algorithms)

Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
Member: National Academy of Eng., National Academy of Science; Fellow: IEEE, ACM, AAAI; Director, CITRIS University of California, Berkeley
(Pioneering contributions to AI, HCI & vision)

Prof. Firouz Naderi
Former Director, Solar System Exploration, NASA's JPL; Former NASA's Program Manager for Mars Explortion
(Contributed to some of America's most iconic robotic space missions)

Prof. John R. Koza
Former Consulting Prof., Stanford University
(Father of Genetic Programming)

Prof. David Lorge Parnas
Fellow: IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; MRIA McMaster University, Canada
(Pioneer of Software Engineering)

Prof. John Gustafson
Recipient of Inaugural Gordon Bell Prize; CTO, Ceranovo, Inc.
(Inventor of Gustafson's Law)

Anousheh Ansari
Chairwoman, Prodea Systems; Space Ambassador;
(First Female Space Tourist)

Prof. Eugene H. Spafford
Fellow: IEEE, ACM, AAAS, Executive Director, CERIAS, Purdue University
(Renowned for first analyzing the Morris Worm)

Prof. Victor Raskin
Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, USA
(Author of Semantic Mechanisms of Humor & Ontological Semantics)

Prof. Amit Sheth
Fellow, IEEE; LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Director, Kno.e.sis
(Pioneer in the area of Semantics and Social Data)

Prof. Vladimir S. Cherkassky
Fellow, IEEE; University of Minnesota; Former Director, NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI)
(Pioneer in the area of Learning from Data)

Prof. Barry Vercoe
Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Inventor of Csound, the underlying language for MPEG-4)

Prof. Haym Hirsh
Dean, Computing & Information Science, Cornell University
(Pioneering contributions to Recommendation Systems)

Prof. Alfred Inselberg
Tel Aviv University, Israel & UCLA, USA
(Inventor of parallel coordinates; his work is praised by Stephen Hawking)

Prof. Rajkumar Buyya
Fellow, IEEE; Distinguished Professor; University of Melbourne, Australia
(Pioneer in the area of Cloud Computing)

Dr. K. Eric Drexler
Chief Technical Advisor, Nanorex
(Founding Father of Nanotechnology)

Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna
Fellow: IEEE, ACM; University of Southern California
(Pioneer in the area of Reconfigurable Systems)

Prof. Brian D. Athey
Co-Director, Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS); University of Michigan Medical School
(Pioneer in the area of Computational Medicine)

Prof. Diego Galar
Lulea University, Sweden
(Known for contributions to Big Data Analytics for Manufacturing)
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