Biography:Robert K. Cunningham
Robert K. Cunningham | |
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| Spouse(s) | Barbara Shinn-Cunningham |
| Awards | Fellow, IEEE |
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| Fields | computer security, machine learning, electrical engineering |
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Robert K. Cunningham is an American computer scientist and engineer. In 2021 he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh.[1] He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[2]
Education
He earned an Sc.B. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, which he attended from 1981-1985. He studied visual processes as well as artificial intelligence in the former Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems of Boston University, where he earned his Ph.D.[citation needed]
Career
He worked for twenty-five years at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, principally on computer security.[3] From 2018 to 2021 he worked on quantum computing at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.[4] He was director of the Laboratory of Physical Science at the University of Maryland (2019–2020).[citation needed]
In 2021, he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh,[1] while maintaining connections to Carnegie Mellon University.[5]
He was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2007.[6] He has served as chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative.[7][8]
According to Scopus he has an h-index of 13.[9]
Personal life
He is married to Barbara Shinn-Cunningham.[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "CMU official named vice chancellor for research infrastructure". https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/cmu-official-named-vice.
- ↑ Robert Cunningham. IEEE Fellows Directory. Accessed October 2021.
- ↑ Zissman, Marc A.; Cunningham, Robert K. (2016). "Cyber Security Research at Lincoln Laboratory". https://www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/page/doc/2018-05/22_1_1_Cunningham.pdf.
- ↑ "The Promise of Quantum Computing". https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetid=525768.
- ↑ "Rob Cunningham". https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/directory/bios/cunningham-rob.html.
- ↑ "Seven from MIT are named 2017 IEEE Fellows". https://news.mit.edu/2017/seven-from-mit-named-2017-ieee-fellows-0105.
- ↑ "IEEE Cybersecurity – Home of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative". https://cybersecurity.ieee.org/.
- ↑ "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/sp/2012/06234446/12OmNzt0IL3.
- ↑ Cunningham, Robert K.. Scopus. Accessed October 2021.
- ↑ "Brown Alumni Monthly Archives". March 1995. https://archive.org/stream/brownalumnimonth956brow/brownalumnimonth956brow_djvu.txt.
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