Andrew Chien joins University of Chicago computer science faculty

December 8, 2011

Author: Steve Koppes

Andrew Chien, the newly appointed William Eckhardt Professor in Computer Science, projects that the 10-year future of computer hardware will be ?wildly different? from the past 10 years. Chien, who was vice president of research at Intel Corporation from 2005 to 2010, believes the coming changes in computer science, in general, will be the result of shared research. He?s especially optimistic about the possibilities at UChicago.

?Concentrated excellence allows people to work across disciplines in a way that often doesn?t happen at big institutions,? said Chien, who also has taught at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ?And I believe the most important discoveries of the next few decades will be made in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaborations.?

Chien is one of a handful of new members of the University?s Computer Science faculty who are changing the face of the department as it expands beyond its theoretical foundations. He specializes in systems applications, software, networking, and computer architecture, an applied form of computer science.

?This is a game-changing appointment,? said Robert Fefferman, dean of the Physical Sciences Division. ?Chien is a top systems person who is well known for organizing outstanding groups of faculty in systems, and we want to pursue that here,? he added.

Also joining the faculty is John Lafferty, the Louis Block Professor in Statistics and Computer Science. With expertise in machine learning, Lafferty will strengthen the bridge between Computer Science and Statistics departments that has been in place for a number of years. ?One of the things we have that?s close to unique is a very strong sense of cooperation between statistics and computer science,? said Computer Science Department Chairman John Goldsmith, the Edward Waller Carson Distinguished Service Professor in Computer Science and Linguistics.

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