|
Short
Biography
Susan L. Graham is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Emerita 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. Their
paper on that tool was selected for the list of best papers from twenty years
of the Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
(1979-1999). She has done seminal research in compiler code generation and
optimization. She and her students have built several interactive
programming environments, yielding a variety of incremental analysis
algorithms. Her most recent projects were the Titanium system for
language and compiler support of explicitly parallel programs and the
Harmonia framework for high-level interactive software development.
Professor Graham received an A.B. in mathematics from Harvard
University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University. She 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, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was the founding editor-in-chief
of the ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 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).
She has
served on numerous advisory committees. She was a member of the U.S.
President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to
2003. She served as the Chief Computer
Scientist for the NSF-sponsored National Partnership for Advanced Computational
Infrastructure (NPACI) from 1997 to 2005.
She co-chaired a National Research Council study on the Future of
Supercomputing. She was a member of
the Harvard Board of Overseers from 2001 to 2007 and was President in
2006-2007. She was vice-Chair and then Chair of the Council of the
NSF-sponsored Computing Community Consortium. She currently serves as a
member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
(PCAST), as a member of the Harvard Corporation, as the Vice-chair and
Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Cal Performances, and as a member of
the Board of Overseers of the Curtis Institute of Music.
|