Alice C. Parker

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Alice Cline Parker is an American electrical engineer. Her early research studied electronic design automation; later in her career, her interests shifted to neuromorphic engineering, biomimetic architecture for computer vision, analog circuits, carbon nanotube field-effect transistors, and nanotechnology. [1] [2] [3] [4] She is Dean's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California. [5]

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Education and career

Parker's father, Joseph K. Cline, was a biochemist who (with Robert R. Williams) first synthesized thiamine; because of him, she grew up interested in science from a young age. [2] [4] Her parents divorced when she was young, and had no money to put her through college; [4] her career in engineering was set by a high school physics teacher, who encouraged her to apply for an engineering scholarship, with which she supported her education. [2] [4] She became one of two female engineering students at North Carolina State University (NCSU), [4] where Wayland P. Seagraves became a mentor. [1] [4]

After graduating from NCSU in 1970, [1] Parker went to Stanford University on an NSF Fellowship, [4] but was frustrated by her inability to find a faculty member who worked on brain modeling; Stanford professor Michael A. Arbib, who worked in this area, had recently moved to another university. [4] She earned a master's degree in electrical engineering there, [5] before marrying and following her new husband back to North Carolina. Still unable to find a research program in biomedical engineering, she returned to graduate study in computer engineering at NCSU, working on microprogrammable computer architecture with James W. Gault, [4] and completing her Ph.D. in 1975. [5] [6]

She was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 1975 to 1980, [7] recruited there by Angel G. Jordan, and began working in high-level synthesis, the automated design of computer hardware from an algorithm describing its intended behavior. [4] In 1980, she moved to the University of Southern California, [7] on the recommendation of her Army Research Office grant officer, Jimmie Suttle. [4] She has been a full professor since 1991, [7] and has served the university as Vice Provost for Research and Vice Provost of Graduate Studies. [4]

Recognition

Parker was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1991, "for contributions to design automation in the areas of high-level synthesis, hardware descriptive languages, and design representation". [8] She was the 2009 winner of the Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education. [9] She was named to the NCSU Electrical and Computer Engineering Hall of Fame in 2017. [1]

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  2. 1 2 3 Conversations on Gender Equity: Alice Parker, Springer Nature, retrieved 2021-05-30
  3. ↑ Banegas, Diane E. (27 January 2009), "Synthetic Brains: Researchers study the feasibility of brains made from carbon nanotubes", Research news, National Science Foundation, retrieved 2021-06-03
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Parker, Alice Cline (2020), "From Silicon to the Brain Using Microelectronics as a Bridge", in Parker, Alice Cline; Lunardi, Leda (eds.), Women in Microelectronics, Springer, pp. 173–186, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-46377-9_12
  5. 1 2 3 "Alice Cline Parker", Viterbi Faculty Directory, USC Viterbi School of Engineering , retrieved 2021-06-03
  6. ↑ Alice C. Parker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. 1 2 3 Positions held, 31 July 1997, retrieved 2021-06-03
  8. ↑ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2021-05-30
  9. ↑ Ming Hsieh Department Professor Wins High Honor: The American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Sharon Keillor Award for 2009 goes to Alice Parker, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, 20 May 2009, retrieved 2021-06-03
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