Georgia State University is a public research university in Atlanta,Georgia,United States. Founded in 1913,it is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities. It is also the largest institution of higher education by enrollment based in Georgia and one of the largest in the nation with a student enrollment of around 50,000,including approximately 33,000 undergraduate and graduate students at the main campus downtown.
John Patrick "Pat" Crecine was an American educator and economist who served as President of Georgia Tech,Dean at Carnegie Mellon University,business executive,and professor. After receiving his early education at public schools in Lansing,Michigan,he earned a bachelor's degree in industrial management,and master's and doctoral degrees in industrial administration from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. He also spent a year at the Stanford University School of Business.
The School of Engineering is one of the ten schools that comprise Tufts University. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in several engineering disciplines and computer science fields. Along with the School of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,the School of Engineering is located on the university's main campus in Medford and Somerville,Massachusetts. Currently,the engineering school enrolls more than 800 full-time undergraduates and 600 graduate students. The school employs over 100 full-time and part-time faculty members.
Jeffrey Scott Vitter is a U.S. computer scientist and academic administrator. Born in 1955 in New Orleans,Vitter has served in several senior higher education administration posts. He is a former chancellor of the University of Mississippi. He assumed the chancellor position on January 1,2016. His formal investiture to the chancellorship took place on November 10,2016,at the University of Mississippi's Oxford Campus.
George Paul "Bud" Peterson is the former president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Peterson is a graduate of Kansas State University,where he earned B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics and an M.S. in Engineering,and Texas A&M University,where he earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. On January 7,2019,Peterson announced his upcoming retirement from Georgia Tech,effective summer of 2019. His successor,Ángel Cabrera,assumed the office September 1,2019,after serving for seven years as president of George Mason University in Fairfax,Virginia. In September 2019,the University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted to name Peterson President Emeritus and Regents Professor of Mechanical Engineering for the standard three-year term. The Board of Regents also awarded him tenure.
Steve C. Currall is an American psychological scientist and academic administrator,and served as the seventh president of the University of South Florida. He previously served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Southern Methodist University from January 1,2016. From 2009 to 2014,Currall served as Dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. He has also held leadership roles at University College London and Rice University. On March 22,2019,Currall was named to succeed Judy Genshaft as president of the University of South Florida,and took office July 1,2019. He announced his resignation due to health and family reasons on July 19,2021.
William Charles Van Buskirk was the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark,New Jersey from Oct 1998 to June 2004,and he retired in December 2011 as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and was the Foundation Professor of Biomechanical Engineering at NJIT.
Moshe Kam is an Israeli-American electrical engineer. He is an engineering educator serving as Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Newark College of Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Until August 2014 he served as the Robert G. Quinn Professor and department head of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel University. In 2011,he served concurrently as the 49th president and CEO of IEEE. Earlier he was IEEE's vice president for educational activities (2005–2007) and IEEE's representative director to the accreditation body ABET. Kam is known for his studies of decision fusion and distributed detection,which focus on computationally feasible fusion rules for multi-sensor systems.
Bruce Eisenstein is an engineering educator serving as the Arthur J. Rowland Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was formerly Interim Dean and Vice Dean of the College of Engineering at Drexel University. He has published nearly 50 papers in the areas of digital signal processing,pattern recognition,deconvolution,along with biomedical engineering. He also served as president of the IEEE in 2000.
Shixin Jack Hu is a Chinese-American engineer who is the senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Georgia. He is also the UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor in the school of environmental,civil,agricultural,and mechanical engineering in the UGA College of Engineering.
Thomas John LeBlanc is a computer scientist and academic administrator. He was the 17th President of the George Washington University from July 2017 to December 2021.
The International University of Grand-Bassam (IUGB) is an independent and nonprofit institution of higher education located in Grand-Bassam,Côte d'Ivoire. In cooperation with Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta,Georgia,and the government of Côte d'Ivoire,IUGB opened in January 2005 and was formally established as an accredited institution of higher education in May 2007. Its main objective is to provide an American-style curriculum to students from Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the first university in French-speaking Côte d'Ivoire that uses English as the primary language of instruction.
Peter Kenneth Dorhout is an American professor of chemistry and the vice president for research at Iowa State University. He was the 2018 President of the American Chemical Society (ACS). As an advocate for science,he has had the opportunity to talk to United States congressional staff about the importance of basic science funding through the National Science Foundation.
Reginald DesRoches is an American civil engineer has served as the president of Rice University since July 1,2022. From 2020 until 2022,he served as provost of Rice. Earlier,beginning in 2017,he was the dean of engineering at Rice's school of engineering,and from 2012 to 2017,DesRoches held the Karen and John Huff Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Susan Poser is the current and first female president of Hofstra University,having succeeded retiring president Stuart Rabinowitz on August 1,2021. Before being named to the Hofstra post,she was chief operating officer,provost,and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Liesl Folks is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Arizona since 2019. She served as the provost for the University of Arizona from 2019 to 2023. Since 2023,she also serves as the Vice President for Semiconductor Strategy at the University of Arizona.
Patrick Joseph Schloss is an American rehabilitation psychologist,educator,professor and university administrator. He served as president of Northern State University in Aberdeen,South Dakota,from 2004 to 2007,and president of Valdosta State University in Valdosta,Georgia from 2008 to 2011. Previously at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania,he served as acting president in 2004,provost and vice president of academic affairs from 2000 to 2003,assistant vice president for academic affairs and the dean of graduate studies,research and libraries from 1994 to 2000. Before that,Schloss was a professor of special education at the University of Missouri and Pennsylvania State University.
The Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and informally Cornell Bowers CIS,is home to three departments -- Computer Science,Information Science,and Statistics and Data Science -- at Cornell University,a private university based in Ithaca,New York.
Karan Lea Watson is an American electrical engineer and academic administrator. She is the former president of ABET,and the former provost and executive vice president at Texas A&M University,where she continues as Regents Professor and senior professor of electrical and computer engineering. Her research has focused on engineering education.
