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Biography
Michael T. Goodrich is a mathematician and computer scientist. He is a Chancellor's Professor and the chair of Department of Computer Science, of Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, a school of University of California, Irvine.
University career
He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Calvin College in 1983 and his PhD in Computer Sciences from Purdue University in 1987 under the supervision of Mikhail Atallah. He then served as a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University until 2001 and has since been a Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Irvine where he is the Associate Dean for Faculty Development in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and Technical Director for the ICS Secure Computing and Networking Center (SCONCE).
Fellowships
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fulbright Scholar, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Editorships
He is also a member of the editorial boards of several top journals on algorithms:
- Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications (CGTA)
- International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications (IJCGA)
- Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA)
- Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS)
Awards
IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, the NSF Research Initiation Award, the DARPA Spirit of Technology Transfer Award, the Brown Univ. Award for Technological Innovation, the ACM Recognition of Service Award, and the Pond Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.