Emeriti Faculty

Carlo Zaniolo

Carlo Zaniolo

Feb 26, 2018

Carlo Zaniolo was born in Vicenza, Italy. He received an E.E. Engineer degree at Padua University in 1968, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at UCLA in 1970 and 1976, respectively. After working at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and MCC in Austin Texas, Dr. Zaniolo joined the UCLA CS Department in 1991, and was awarded the N.E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Science. Dr. Zaniolo’s interests include big data and knowledge based systems, non-monotonic and temporal reasoning, internet information systems, answering questions, queries and searches in knowledge bases.

Richard Muntz

Richard Muntz

Feb 20, 2018

Dr. R. Muntz was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He received the BEE from Pratt Institute in 1963, the MEE from New York University in 1966, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1969. He is a member of the Board of Directors for SIGMETRICS and is the current chair of IFIP Working Group 7.3. He is a past associate editor for the Journal of the ACM and was editor-in-chief of ACM Computing Surveys from 1992 to 1995. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, and a Fellow of the IEEE. His current research interests are scientific database systems, multimedia storage and database systems, data mining and computer system performance evaluation.

Richard Korf

Richard Korf

Feb 20, 2018

Richard Korf is a Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his B.S. from M.I.T. in 1977, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980 and 1983, respectively, all in computer science. From 1983 to 1985, he served as Herbert M. Singer Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. His research is in the areas of problem-solving, heuristic search, and planning in artificial intelligence. He is the author of “Learning to Solve Problems by Searching for Macro-Operators” (Pitman, 1985). He served on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence, and the Journal of Applied Intelligence. Dr. Korf is the recipient of a 1985 IBM Faculty Development Award, a 1986 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the first UCLA Computer Science Department Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989, the first UCLA School of Engineering Student’s Choice Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1996, the Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005, the Artificial Intelligence Classic Paper Award in 2016, and a career award from the Symposium on Combinatorial Search in 2018. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Sheila Greibach

Sheila Greibach

Feb 20, 2018

Dr. Greibach was born in New York City and received the A.B. degree from Radcliffe College in Linguistics and Applied Mathematics summa cum laude in 1960. She received the A.M. degree from Radcliffe in 1962 and the Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1963. She served on the faculty of the Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Physics and joined the UCLA Faculty in 1969 and the Computer Science Department in 1970. Her interests include algorithms and computational complexity, program schemes and semantics, formal languages and automata theory and computability.

Eliezer Gafni

Eliezer Gafni

Feb 20, 2018

Dr. Gafni was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He received his Bs.C from the Technion, Israel in 1972, and Ms and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1979 and 1982, from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and M.I.T, respectively. In 1982 he joined the UCLA computer science faculty. Dr. Gafni was the recipient of a 1983 IBM Faculty Development Award, and a 1984 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. His research interests include distributed algorithms, mathematical programming with application to distributed routing and control of data networks, and computer science theory.

Milos Ercegovac

Milos Ercegovac

Feb 15, 2018

Professor Ercegovac earned his PhD (’75) and MS (’72) in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and BS in electrical engineering (’65) from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. He specializes in research and teaching in digital arithmetic, digital design, and computer system architecture. His recent research is in the areas of approximate arithmetic, composite algorithms, complex arithmetic, design for low power and arithmetic in application-specific architectures. His research contributions have been extensively published in journals and conference proceedings. He is a coauthor of two textbooks on digital design and of a monograph and a book in the area of digital arithmetic. Dr. Ercegovac has been involved in organizing the IEEE Symposia on Computer Arithmetic since 1978. He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers and as a subject area editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He received a Medal of Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France, in 2015, a Distinguished Alumni Educator Award in 2013 from the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Lockheed-Martin Corporation Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009. Dr. Ercegovac is a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the ACM.

Michael Dyer

Michael Dyer

Feb 15, 2018

Dr. Dyer was born in Washington D.C. and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Yale University in 1982. He joined UCLA in 1983 and is currently Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is an author of over 90 publications, including In-Depth Understanding, MIT Press, 1983. He serves on the editorial board of the journals: Applied Intelligence, Connection Science, Knowledge-Based Systems, and International Journal of Expert Systems. His research interests are centered around the processing and acquisition of natural language, through symbolic, connectionist and genetic algorithm techniques.

Alfonso Cardenas

Alfonso Cardenas

Feb 15, 2018

Dr. Cardenas was born in Aguascalientes, Mexico, and obtained the B.S degree from San Diego State University and the M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1969. He was a visiting scientist/consultant to IBM Corporation in 1972-1975. He has been a consultant to many organizations in several countries. He is author and co-editor of several books, and of many other publications. His major areas of interest include database management, distributed heterogeneous and multimedia (text, image/picture, voice) systems, information systems planning and development methodologies, software engineering, and legal and intellectual property issues. He has been a consultant to both users and vendors of hardware and software technology.