2009 Engineering and Computer Sciences Jury
Jury Chair
Prof. Subra Suresh
Dean of the School of Engineering and Ford Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
He has been elected to US National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Indian National Academy of Engineering, Indian Academy of Sciences, Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Developing World based in Trieste, Italy, and German National Academy of Sciences. He has been elected a Fellow or Honorary Member of all of the major materials professional societies in the USA and India. A recipient of the 2006 Acta Materialia Gold Medal, 2007 European Materials Medal (the first non-European selected to receive this prize given jointly by 26 European materials societies), 2008 Eringen Medal of the Society of Engineering Science, and a Senior Humboldt Research Prize from Germany, Suresh holds an honorary doctorate from Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology. In 2006, MIT’s Technology Review magazine selected Suresh as one of the top 10 researchers whose work in nanomechanics of biological systems will have “significant impact on business, medicine or culture”.
Jurors
Prof. Barbara Liskov
Institute Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Associate Provost for Faculty Equity
Prof. Liskov is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the ACM. She received the ACM Turing Award(2009), the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Language Achievement Award(2008), the IEEE Von Neumann medal(2004), a lifetime achievement award from the Society of Women Engineers(1996), and was named one of the 50 most important women in science by Discover Magazine(2003). Her research interests include distributed systems, replication algorithms to provide fault-tolerance, programming methodology, and programming languages. Her current research projects include Byzantine-fault-tolerant storage systems, peer-to-peer computing, and support for automatic deployment of software upgrades in large-scale distributed systems.
Prof. Kurt Mehlhorn
Director at Max Planck Institute for Computer Science
Prof. Mehlron was the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and continues to be a director at the institute. He was vice-president of the Max Planck Society from 2002 to 2008. Having graduated in 1971 from the Technical University of Munich, where he studied computer science and mathematics, he earned his Ph.D. in 1974 from Cornell University. He was chair of computer science department in Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. Since 1990 he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, also in Saarbrücken. He has been on the editorial boards of ten journals, a trustee of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, and a member of the board of governors of Jacobs University Bremen. He won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize(1986), the Karl Heinz Beckurts Award(1994), the Konrad Zuse Medal(1995) and was named a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery(1999), a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences(2001), and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina(2004). He has received honorary doctorates from the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg in 2004, the University of Waterloo in 2006, and the University of Aarhus in 2008. Mehlhorn has over 250 scientific publications. He is best known as one of the developers of LEDA, the Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms; he is also known for his work on shortest path algorithms, perfect hashing, parallel algorithms, and computational geometry.
Prof. Choon Fong Shih
President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Professor, Mechanical Engineering, KAUST
Prof. Shih became founding president of KAUST after nine years as President and Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is chairman emeritus of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), and has chaired the Governing Board of the APRU World Institute. He is a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As a researcher, Professor Shih has made significant contributions in nonlinear fracture mechanics and computational methods for fracture analyses. Professor Shih is listed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as among the world’s most highly cited engineering researchers. Among his honors are the George Irwin Medal and the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award, from the American Society for Testing and Materials and the American Society for Mechanical Engineers respectively, the inaugural Asia Pacific Chief Executive Leadership Award from the Council for Advancement and Support for Education, and the French decoration "Chevalier" in the Order of the "Legion d'Honneur". He is a member of the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Dr. R.A. Mashelkar
CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow, President of Global Research Alliance
Dr. Mashelkar was the Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for over eleven years. He was also the President of Indian National Science Academy. He is a Fellow of Royal Society (FRS), Foreign Associate of National Academy of Science (USA) and National Academy of Engineering (USA) and Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), World Academy of Art & Science (USA), Australian Technological Science & Engineering Academy and The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. Twenty-seven universities have honoured him with honorary doctorates, which include Universities of London, Salford, Pretoria, Wisconsin and Delhi. In the post-liberalised India, Dr. Mashelkar has been a key architect of India’s science, technology and innovation policies. His contributions in transforming publicly funded R&D institutions and developing balanced IP systems are well recognized. He has won over 50 national and international awards for his contributions in science for the cause of science.
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