Ed Lazowska
 Ed Lazowska holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Lazowska's current activities include directing the University of Washington eScience Institute, whose objective is to make the techniques and technologies of data-intensive science available across the UW campus; chairing the Computing Community Consortium, whose objective is to expand the engagement of the computing research community in articulating and addressing the societal challenges of the 21st century; and, until recently, co-chairing (with David E. Shaw) the Working Group of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) charged with reviewing the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. Lazowska received his A.B. from Brown University in 1972 and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1977, when he joined the University of Washington faculty. Lazowska's research and teaching concern the design, implementation, and analysis of high-performance computing and communication systems. For the first ten years of his career, Lazowska's principal focus was computer system performance: the development of effective performance evaluation techniques, and the use of these techniques to gain insight about significant computer systems and computer system design issues. Lazowska then turned his attention to the design and implementation of distributed and parallel computer systems - work that yielded a number of widely-embraced approaches to kernel and system design in areas such as thread management, high-performance local and remote communication, load sharing, cluster computing, and the effective use of the underlying architecture by the operating system. Current research includes information technology to support sustainable rural development, data architecture for the Ocean Observatories Initiative, control theory applied to computer system management, and support of the NetSE initiative. Twenty Ph.D. students and 23 M.S. students have completed degrees working with him. Complete bio
Susan Graham
 Susan L. Graham is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Emerita and a Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research spans many aspects of programming language implementation, software tools, software development environments, and high-performance computing. As a participant in the Berkeley Unix project, she and her students built the Berkeley Pascal system and the widely used program profiling tool gprof. She has done seminal research in compiler code generation and optimization. Her most recent projects are the Titanium system for language and compiler support of explicitly parallel programs and the Harmonia framework for high-level interactive software development. Professor Graham is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Among her awards are the ACM SIGPLAN Career Programming Language Achievement Award (2000), the ACM Distinguished Service Award (2006), the Harvard Medal (2008), the IEEE von Neumann Medal (2009), the Berkeley Citation (2009), and the ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award (2011).Complete bio
Erwin Gianchandani
 Erwin Gianchandani is Director of CRA’s Computing Community Consortium and Computing Innovation Fellows Project. Before joining CRA, he was an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at NSF, where he worked on NSF's smart health and wellbeing initiative. Previously, he was Director of Innovation Networking at the University of Virginia, reporting to the university’s Vice President for Research. Erwin's research interests include developing systems biology approaches for utilizing experimental data to reconstruct and analyze intracellular biochemical reaction networks – to better understand disease mechanisms and identify therapeutic targets. Erwin has co-authored over a dozen peer-reviewed research publications and been involved with multiple patent disclosures and Federal research grants. He holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering, a M.S. in biomedical engineering, and a B.S. in computer science from the University of Virginia. erwin [at] cra.org
Randal Bryant
 Randal E. Bryant is Dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. He has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon since 1984, starting as an Assistant Professor and progressing to his
current rank of University Professor of Computer Science. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Dr. Bryant's research focuses on methods for formally verifying
digital hardware, and more recently some forms of software. His 1986
paper on symbolic Boolean manipulation using Ordered Binary Decision
Diagrams (BDDs) has the highest citation count of any publication in
the Citeseer database of computer science literature. In addition, he
has developed several techniques to verify circuits by symbolic
simulation, with levels of abstraction ranging from transistors to
very high-level representations. Complete bio
Deborah Crawford
 Deborah Crawford is Vice Provost for Research at Drexel University. She received her Ph.D. in Information Systems Engineering from the University of Bradford and her B.Sc. (Hons) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Glasgow, both in the United Kingdom. She joined Drexel in September 2010 after a seventeen-year career with the National Science Foundation. Deb has been active in the computing community for almost a decade. Her research contributions were in the areas of electronic and photonic nanostructures, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, and high-speed photonic devices for high bandwidth communication applications. She published in these fields in former lives at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, AT&T Bell Labs (Holmdel) and the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Lance Fortnow
 Lance Fortnow received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at MIT in 1989 under the supervision of Michael Sipser. After two stints at the University of Chicago (spending four years at the NEC Research Institute in-between), Fortnow started as a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Northwestern University in January of 2008. Fortnow also has a courtesy appointment at the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences department at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and an adjunct professorship at the Toyota Technological Institute - Chicago. Complete bio
Stephanie Forrest
 Stephanie Forrest is Professor and Chairman of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and a Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Professor Forrest received her Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan. Before joining UNM she worked for Teknowledge Inc. and was a Director's Fellow at the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Professor Forrest is an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute and serves on its science board. She also served as SFI's Interim Vice President 1999-2000. Complete Bio
Gregory Hager
 Gregory D. Hager is a Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology. His research interests include time-series analysis of image data, image-guided robotics, medical applications of image analysis and robotics, and human-computer interaction. He is the author of more than 220 peer-reviewed research articles and books in the area of robotics and computer vision. In 2006, he was elected a fellow of the IEEE for his contributions in Vision-Based Robotics. Complete Bio
Chris Johnson
 Chris Johnson directs the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah where he is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Physics and Bioengineering. His research interests are in the areas of scientific computing and scientific visualization. Dr. Johnson founded the SCI research group in 1992, which has since grown to become the SCI Institute employing over 145 faculty, staff and students. Professor Johnson serves on several international journal editorial boards, as well as on advisory boards to several national research centers. Professor Johnson has received several awards, including the the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) award from President Clinton in 1995 and the Governor's Medal for Science and Technology from Governor Michael Leavitt in 1999. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Anita Jones
 Professor Jones has served on the National Science Board, and chaired its Committee on Programs and Plans, which performs the Board's in depth evaluation of MREFC candidates. She is a member of the Defense Science Board and was the Director of Defense Research and Engineering. She, with NAE President Bill Wulf, formulated the notion of the Computer Science Grand Challenge Conferences as a community visioning exercise and chaired the first of the three conferences in this CRA and NSF sponsored series. Complete bio
M. Frans Kaashoek
 M. Frans Kaashoek is a professor in MIT's EECS Department and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He received his PhD from the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for his work on group communication in the Amoeba distributed operating system. His principal field of interest is designing and building computer systems. Some of the current projects that he is working on with students include exokernels, an extensible operating system architecture, and SFS, a secure, decentralized global file system. Complete bio
Hank Korth
 Henry F. Korth is Weiseman Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. He is director of the Systems, Experimentation, and Analysis Laboratory for Databases (SEAL DB). His publications include three books, one of which, Database Systems Concepts, is soon to be in its sixth edition; over 100 journal articles, conference publications and other technical papers; and twelve book chapters. Korth also holds eight patents. Before his arrival at Lehigh, Korth held positions of leadership with Lucent Technology's Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. Complete bio
Eric Horvitz
 Eric Horvitz is interested in principles of sensing, learning, and decision making under uncertainty. This includes human decision making and computational models of reflection and action. Beyond theoretical models, he pursues applications in several realms, including time-critical decision making, scientific exploration, information retrieval, and healthcare--with goals of understanding how computational models perform amidst real-world complexities, and of deploying valuable systems. Complete bio
Ran Libeskind-Hadas
 Ran Libeskind-Hadas is a professor of computer computer science and department chair at Harvey Mudd College. His research interests are in the area of algorithms, optical networking, and computational biology. He also works in the development of innovative undergraduate curricula in computer science. Libeskind-Hadas received the A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard University and the M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Complete bio
John Mitchell
 John Mitchell is the Mary and Gordon Crary Family Professor in the Stanford Computer Science Department. His research focuses on web security, network
security, privacy, programming language analysis and design, formal methods, and applications of mathematical logic to computer science. Over the past thirty years, Mitchell has written over 175 research articles and produced three books. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer Security, has served on the editorial board of eleven professional journals, and has served on the program committee of over 80 professional conferences. His past awards include a Director's Award from the U.S. Secret Service for his efforts in connection with the Electronic Crimes Task Force. Prof. Mitchell has managed research projects sponsored by AFOSR, DARPA, DHS, DHHS, NSF, ONR; he is the Stanford principal investigator for the TRUST NSF Science and Technology Center and Chief IT Scientist of the DHHS SHARPS project on healthcare IT security and privacy. Complete bio
Robin Murphy
 Robin Roberson Murphy received a B.M.E. in mechanical engineering, a M.S. and Ph.D in computer science (minor: Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems) in 1980, 1989, and 1992, respectively, from Georgia Tech, where she was a Rockwell International Doctoral Fellow. She is currently the Raytheon Professor of Computer Science. From 1998 to 2008, she was a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of South Florida with a joint appointment in Cognitive and Neural Sciences in the Department of Psychology. From 1992 to 1998, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines. Complete bio
Beth Mynatt
 Elizabeth Mynatt is associate dean and professor in the College of Computing and director of the GVU Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The GVU center hosts fifty-five faculty drawn from computer science, psychology, liberal arts, new media design, history of science and technology, engineering, architecture, management, and music. Mynatt played a pivotal role in creating the College of Computing Ph.D. program in Human-Centered Computing, integrating studies in human-computer interaction, learning sciences and technology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, robotics, software engineering, and information security. In the last decade, Mynatt has directed a research program in ubiquitous computing and technologies adapted to everyday life. With work that began at Xerox PARC and has grown to fruition at Georgia Tech, she examines the pervasive presence of computation in everyday life. Mynatt earned her Bachelor of Science summa cum laude in computer science from North Carolina State University and her Master of Science and Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech. Complete bio
Margo Seltzer
 Margo Seltzer is the Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science and a Harvard College Professor in the Harvard's Schooll of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She received an A.B. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard/Radcliffe College in 1983 and a Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992. She is the author of several widely-used software packages including database and transaction libraries and the 4.4BSD log-structured file system.
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Fred Schneider
 Fred Schneider is the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science at Cornell and chief scientist of the NSF TRUST Science and Technology Center. He serves on the NIST Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, the CRA board of directors, the CCC council, co-chairs Microsoft's Trustworthing Computing Academic Advisory Board, and several journal editorial boards. He is a fellow of ACM, AAAS, and IEEE, was named Professor-at-Large at Univ of Tromso (Norway), and received a D.Sci honoris causa from University of Newcastle.
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Bob Sproull
 Robert F. Sproull recently retired as Vice President and Director of Oracle Labs, an applied research group originated at Sun Microsystems. Since undergraduate days, he has been building hardware and software for computer graphics: clipping hardware, an early device-independent graphics package, page description languages, laser printing software, and window systems. He has also been involved in VLSI design, especially of asynchronous circuits and systems. Before joining Sun in 1990, he was a principal with Sutherland, Sproull & Associates, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He is a coauthor with William Newman of the early text, "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics." He is an author of the recently-published book "Logical Effort," which deals with designing fast CMOS circuits. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served on the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and as a technology partner of Advanced Technology Ventures. Complete bio
Josep Torrellas
 Josep Torrellas is the Director of the Center for Programmable Extreme-Scale Computing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Professor of Computer Science and (by courtesy) Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM. He is a former Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, and a Willett Faculty Scholar at Illinois. He received a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has made contributions to parallel computer architecture in the areas of shared-memory multiprocessor organizations, cache hierarchies and coherence protocols, thread-level speculation, and hardware and software reliability. He has graduated 27 PhD students, who are now leaders in academia and industry. He is currently engaged in research with Intel designing the Bulk Multicore architecture for programmability, and the Thrifty-Runnemede extreme-scale multiprocessor. He has lead the I-ACOMA multiprocessor project, and been involved in the DARPA-funded IBM-PERCS multiprocessor, and the Stanford DASH and Illinois Cedar machines. Complete bio
Andrew Bernat
 Andrew Bernat was a founding member and chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at El Paso (spending 20 years there), NSF Program Director and is currently the Executive Director of the Computing Research Association, whose mission is to strengthen research and education in the computing fields, expand opportunities for women and minorities, and improve public and policymaker understanding of the importance of computing and computing research in our society. In recognition of "... his success in creating arguably the strongest computer science department at a minority-serving institution ...", the Computing Research Association honored him with the 1997 A. Nico Habermann Award. He has some 65 publications and (pre-CRA) over $5,000,000 in external funding.
Bios of the Past CCC Council Members
Greg Andrews
 Greg Andrews is a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Arizona. His research is on programming languages and software systems for parallel and distributed computing. He has written three books on these topics and received two distinguished teaching awards from the College of Science at Arizona. He is currently Co-Principal Investigator of a large, NSF-funded project to build a cyberinfrastructure that enables solving grand challenge problems in the plant sciences. Professor Andrews was Head of Computer Science at Arizona from 1986-93 and 2006-08. From 2003-05 he was at NSF, where he was the initial Division Director of Computer and Network Systems. Professor Andrews was on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association from 1991-98, and he was on the Council of the Computing Community Consortium from 2006-08. He is a Fellow of the ACM. Complete Bio
Bill Feiereisen
 Dr. William (Bill) Feiereisen is currently, the Director of High Performance Computing at the DoD. Before holding this position he was the Division Leader of the Computer and Computational Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Prior to that Bill spent fifteen years at NASA Ames Research Center first as a computational scientist and later as the leader of the NASA Advanced Computing Facility (NAS). His background is turbulence modeling and the fluid mechanics and gas dynamics of hypersonic reentry flows. He has always had a great fascination for the computing machinery itself, explaining his interest in the confluence of computer and computational science for high performance computing.
David Kaeli
 Dr. Kaeli is the Director of the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research Laboratory (NUCAR). He is the co-leader of the Northeastern University Institute for Information Assurance (IIA) . He is a Research Thrust Leader for the NSF Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) . He is also a member of the Northeastern University Institute for Complex Scientific Software (ICSS) and an IEEE Fellow. Complete bio
Dick Karp
 Member, NAS, NAE, American Philosophical Society; Founding Chair, Section 34 (Computer and Information Sciences) NAS; NSF Waterman Award Committee, NSF (1999-2001,chair 2001); Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, NRC (1976-80, 1992-95); Board of Governors, Weizmann Institute of Science (1987-); Board of Governors, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (1999-2001, chair 2001); External Advisory Board, DIMACS(1990-). Complete bio
John King
 King is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Information Systems, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the Academy of Management. He was editor-in-chief in 1993-98 of the INFORMS journal, Information Systems Research, has been co-editor-in-chief of Information Infrastructure and Policy since 1989 and is a member of several other editorial boards, including that for the Journal of Strategic Information Technology and the ACM Computing Surveys, for which he was associate editor from 1989-97. Complete bio
Peter Lee
 Professor Lee has made numerous research contributions in the area of programming languages and systems for 25 years, in large part with NSF support, most recently through an ITR grant. He is a former Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, overseeing a dramatic increase, from 6% to 40%, in the number of women enrolling in its undergraduate computing programs. He has been a member of numerous government science advisory panels, including DARPA ISAT, DARPA IXO Senior Advisory Group, Army Science Board, and Defense Science Board. Complete bio
Andrew McCallum
 Andrew McCallum is an Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was previously Vice President of Research and Development at WhizBang Labs, a company that used machine learning for information extraction from the Web. In the late 1990's he was a Research Scientist and Coordinator at Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University after receiving his PhD from the University of Rochester in 1995. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. For the past eight years, McCallum has been active in research on statistical machine learning applied to text, especially information extraction, document classification, finite state models, and semi-supervised learning. Complete bio
Karen Sutherland
 Is a Professor of Computer Science at Augsburg University. Her primary research interest is in the area of computer vision with emphasis on computational models of biological vision systems and handling the errors which occur in visual localization. She is working on human localization techniques in virtual environments as compared to those used in real environments. She is also investigating behaviors for multiple robots navigating in destroyed environments such as those found during search and rescue operations. Complete bio
David Tennenhouse
 David is a member of the ACM and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is currently a Director at Real Time Content, the Computing Research Association (CRA) and the International Computer Sciences Institute (ICSI). He is also an advisor to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Directorate; Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science; and the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley. He has held academic appointments at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and in the Sloan School of Management. Complete bio
Dave Waltz
 David L. Waltz has been Director of the Center for Computational Learning Systems (CCLS) at Columbia University since 2003. He was formerly President of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, and from 1984-1993 was Director of Advanced Information Systems at Thinking Machines Corporation and Professor of Computer Science at Brandeis University. He had also been Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois for 11 years. Waltz served as president of AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence) from 1997-1999, and is a Fellow of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and AAAI, a Senior Member of IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and former Chairman of ACM SIGART (Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence). He is currently on the Army Research Lab Technical Advisory Board and the Advisory Board of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and has served on recent external advisory boards for Rutgers University, Carnegie-Mellon University, Brown University, and EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne). He is on the Editorial Advisory Board for IEEE Intelligent Systems, and has served on the Computing Research Association Board, and NSF Computer Science Advisory Board. Complete bio
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