Biography:Hava Siegelmann

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Short description: Computer scientist
Hava Siegelmann
Born (1964-08-23) August 23, 1964 (age 59)
Haifa
Alma materRutgers University
Known forHypercomputation
AwardsMeritorious Public Service Medal
Scientific career
Fieldscomputer science, neuroscience, system biology, biomedical engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
ThesisFoundations of Recurrent Neural Networks (1993)
Doctoral advisorEduardo Daniel Sontag

Hava Siegelmann is an American computer scientist and Provost Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1]

Biography

Siegelmann earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Rutgers University (1993) under Eduardo Sontag. Her dissertation was on the topic of Hypercomputation.[2] She earned an M.Sc. in Computer Science at Hebrew University (1992) and a B.A. in Computer Science at the Technion (1988).

Siegelmann was a program manager of several DARPA AI programs including Lifelong Learning Machines,[3] Guaranteeing AI Robustness Against Deception,[4] and Cooperative Secure Learning.[5] DARPA/DoD awarded her with the Meritorious Public Service Medal for her research and leadership.[6]

Selected publications

References

  1. "Hava T. Siegelmann". University of Massachusetts Amherst. 20 February 2008. https://www.cics.umass.edu/faculty/directory/siegelmann_hava. 
  2. Siegelman, Hava (1993). Foundations of Recurrent Neural Networks (PhD thesis). Rutgers University.
  3. "Lifelong Learning Machines (L2M) (Archived)". https://www.darpa.mil/program/lifelong-learning-machines. 
  4. "Guaranteeing AI Robustness Against Deception (GARD)". https://www.darpa.mil/program/guaranteeing-ai-robustness-against-deception. 
  5. "Cooperative Secure Learning (CSL) (Archived)". https://www.darpa.mil/program/cooperative-secure-learning. 
  6. "DARPA Recognizes UMass Professor Hava Siegelmann for Major Advances in AI" (Press release).