Susan L. Graham | |
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Born | 16 September 1942 |
Citizenship | American |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Alma mater | A.B. Harvard M.S., Ph.D. Stanford |
Thesis | Precedence Languages and Bounded Right Context Languages (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | David Gries |
Other academic advisors | Niklaus Wirth |
Doctoral students |
David F. Bacon M. Kirk McKusick Mark N. Wegman |
Notable awards |
ACM Fellow ACM Ken Kennedy Award IEEE Fellow IEEE von Neumann Medal Fellow of the AAAS |
Website http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~graham |
Susan Lois Graham is an American computer scientist. Graham is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
Born in Cleveland, Graham received her A.B. in mathematics from Harvard in 1964. She did her graduate work in computer science at Stanford, receiving her M.S. in 1966 and her Ph.D. in 1971 under the supervision of David Gries. In 1971 she joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, rising from assistant professor (1971–1976), through associate professor (1976–1981) to full professor from 1981 onwards.
Graham's research projects include:
Graham has published dozens of research articles in industry publications dating back to 1968, including the Journal of the ACM, and has lectured and published extensively on subjects in computer languages, compilers and programming environments.
She is a member of the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Among other activities, she chaired the Panel on Open Source Software for High End Computing.
Graham has long been involved with Harvard, culminating with her joining the Harvard Corporation in 2011.
In 1994 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. She is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the IEEE. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.