BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

W. Kent Fuchs

Kent Fuchs is the Joseph Silbert Dean of the College of Engineering, Cornell University, and Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Previously he was Head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, and Michael J. and Catherine R. Birck Distinguished Professor. He was also formerly Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois. His research interests include dependable computing and failure diagnosis of integrated circuits.

Awards he has received include the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, the senior Faculty Award for Excellence in Research (Xerox award), selection as a University Scholar, appointment as Fellow in the Center for Advanced Studies, and the junior Faculty Award for Excellence in Research (Xerox award), all from the University of Illinois. While at Purdue University he was appointed as a Distinguished Professor. He also received the Incentives for Excellence Faculty Award from the Digital Equipment Corporation, Best Paper Award IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, and the Best Paper Award VLSI Test Symposium. He has been a guest editor and has served on the editorial board of a number of journals. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary Society) and Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honorary Society). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM.

Kent Fuchs received the B.S.E. degree from Duke University, M. Div. degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

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