Stephen E. Cross
| Stephen E. Cross | |
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| Born | October 7, 1951 |
| Citizenship | American |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields |
Software engineering Systems engineering Process improvement Technology transfer |
| Institutions | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater |
University of Cincinnati (1974) Air Force Institute of Technology (1977) University of Illinois (1983) |
| Notable awards |
Defense Superior Service Medal (1991) University of Cincinnati College of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus (2002) IEEE Fellow (2003)Irish America Star of the South (2010) |
Stephen Edward Cross is executive vice president for research (EVPR) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), a position to which he was appointed in 2010. As EVPR, Cross coordinates research efforts among Georgia Tech's colleges, research units and faculty; and provides central administration for all research, economic development and related support units at Georgia Tech. This includes direct oversight of Georgia Tech's interdisciplinary research institutes, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2) and the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC).
Prior to this position, he served as director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 2003 until 2010, director and chief executive officer of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute from 1994 to 2003, and an officer in the United States Air Force from 1974 to 1994.
He is an IEEE Fellow, a former editor-in-chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems and former associate editor of the Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Systems Management. He is a recipient of the Defense Superior Service Medal. Cross has published more than 60 research papers in computing, and has provided expert testimony to the United States Congress.
Cross attended Madison High School in Madison, Ohio, from 1965 to 1969. Cross earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1974 and subsequently joined the United States Air Force. While in the Air Force, he received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1977 and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1983. Cross also graduated from United States Air Force Test Pilot School's Flight Test Engineer Program, the Air War College, and the National Defense University.
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