Oscar H. Ibarra#
| Email: | ibarra 'at' cs.ucsb.edu |
| Membership Number: | 2523 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Username: | oibarra |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1989-present, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara (Dept. Chair, 1997-1999)
- 1978-1989, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
- 1975-1976, Visiting Professor, Dept. of Engineering Sciences, University of the Philippines
- 1973-1978, Associate Professor, Dept. of of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
- 1969-1973, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
- 1967-1969, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Eng. & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
- Ph.D., 1967, Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Fields of Scholarship
- design and analysis of algorithms
- theory of computation
- computational complexity
- parallel computing
- formal verification
- molecular computing
- membrane computing
Honours and Awards
- Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1984-1985
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), January 1992
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), September 1993
- Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), March 1995
- 2001 IEEE Computer Society's Harry M. Goode Memorial Award, 2001
- Recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan for senior scientists, October-November 2002
- Elected member of the European Academy of Sciences (EAS), 2003
- Included in Thomson ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) database of 230 Highly Cited Researchers in Computer Science
- First P Prize in Membrane Computing, announced during the 2003 Workshop on Membrane Computing, Tarragona, Spain, July 2003
- Recipient of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA) Distinguished Alumnus Award: the 2003 Outstanding Professional in the field of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, June 2003
- Recipient of a Nokia Visiting Research Fellow scholarship, 2007
- Recipient of the 2007 Blaise Pascal Medal in Computer Science from the European Academy of Sciences
- Elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (Informatics Section), 2008
- Recipient of a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, 2008
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