Anthony Jacobi is an American professor, teaching and conducting research in heat transfer, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. He is currently the Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois and is an Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. [1] [2] [3]
Jacobi was born in Louisville, Kentucky in the United States to Judy (née Shea; January 26, 1939 - July 2, 2021 [4] ) and Kenneth Jacobi (December 26, 1939 - ). He grew up in southern Indiana and east-central Kentucky where his family farmed tobacco.
Anthony Jacobi completed a PhD at Purdue University in 1989, [5] where he was advised by Victor Goldschmidt. [6] He was assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University from 1989 to 1992, before moving to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He became Professor in 2001, and was named the Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor in 2004. From 1997 to 2015, he was Associate Director then Co-director of the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center, an industry-university cooperative research center, founded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Anthony Jacobi became the 21st Head of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois in 2015.
Wen-mei Hwu is a Senior Director of Research and Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA Corporation as well as the Walter J. Sanders III-AMD Endowed Chair Professor Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research is on computer architecture, computer microarchitecture, and parallel processing. He is a principal investigator for the petascale Blue Waters supercomputer, is co-director of the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC), and is principal investigator for the first NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence at UIUC. At the Illinois Coordinated Science Lab, Hwu leads the IMPACT Research Group and is director of the OpenIMPACT project – which has delivered new compiler and computer architecture technologies to the computer industry since 1987. From 1997 to 1999, Hwu served as the chairman of the Computer Engineering Program at Illinois. Since 2009, Hwu has served as chief technology officer at MulticoreWare Inc., leading the development of compiler tools for heterogeneous platforms. The OpenCL compilers developed by his team at MulticoreWare are based on the LLVM framework and have been deployed by leading semiconductor companies. In 2020, Hwu retired after serving 33 years in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, Hwu is a Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at Nvidia Research and Emeritus Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Arthur Cutts Willard was the ninth president of the University of Illinois and an innovator in the field of heating and ventilation. Known for being approachable, a gentleman and well-dressed; he was known and admired by many. He received worldwide acclaim for his research and contribution to the heating, ventilating field; in particular for his contributions to the Holland Tunnel. In addition to his contributions to heating and ventilation industry, Willard was an educator in heating and ventilation and mechanical engineering between 1906 and 1933. He taught at George Washington University and the University of Illinois. Willard was appointed president in 1934 and served until 1946. Although he served as president during a difficult time for the university and the nation, he continued to have the highest expectations of his students. During his time as president he obtained funding for construction and addition of many buildings on the University of Illinois campuses. Willard strongly believed education needed to be more broad and focus on the social and economic problems facing the nation. At the end of service to the university, the Institute of Aviation was established at University of Illinois Willard Airport, and it was named in honor of A.C. Willard.
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