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Two professors, two alumni elected to National
Academy of Engineering for 2002
Two Berkeley professors -- leaders in transportation systems
and algorithm complexity -- have been elected to the National
Academy of Engineering (NAE), the highest professional honor for
an American engineer.
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| Adib Kanafani |
Christos Papadimitriou |
New members from the College of Engineering faculty are civil
and environmental engineering professor and chair Adib K. Kanafani
and computer science professor Christos H. Papadimitriou. They
are among 74 new members and seven foreign associates elected
this year. Their election brings the total Berkeley faculty membership
in this prestigious society to 86. Among academic institutions,
Berkeley maintains one of the highest representations in the academy.
Kanafani joined Berkeley's civil engineering faculty in 1970,
after earning his Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1969. He currently chairs
his department and holds the Edward G. and John R. Cahill Chair
for Civil Engineering. He also co-directs the National Center
of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research, a university-industry
consortium funded by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Kanafani's research interests center on transportation planning
and systems analysis. He was recognized by the NAE for "contributions
to national and international air transportation, the development
of U.S. research on intelligent transportation, and the education
of transportation professionals."
Papadimitriou received his undergraduate degree in electrical
engineering at Athens Polytechnic and his Ph.D. in computer science
at Princeton University in 1976. He taught at Harvard, MIT, Athens
Polytechnic, Stanford, and UC San Diego before joining Berkeley's
computer science faculty in 1995, where he focuses on theories
of algorithms and complexity and their applications to databases,
artificial intelligence, and game theory. The associate chair
for Berkeley's computer science division, he also holds the C.
Lester Hogan Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
The NAE cited Papadimitriou for "contributions to complexity
theory, database theory, and combinatorial optimization."
In addition to Kanafani, two other College of Engineering alumni
were elected this year. Michael J. Carey, CS '83, a technical
director at BEA Systems in San Jose, was cited for "contributions
to the design, implementation, and evaluation of database systems."
Apple Computer Inc. co-founder Stephen Wozniak, EECS '86, now
chief executive officer of Unuson Corp., was cited for "the
invention and development of the first mass-produced personal
computer."
New academy members will be inducted in October at a ceremony
in Washington, D.C.
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