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Biography
Susan L. Graham is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Emerita and a Professor in the Graduate
School at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research spans many aspects of programming
language implementation, software tools, software development environments,
and high-performance computing. As a participant in the Berkeley Unix
project, she and her students built the Berkeley Pascal system and the widely
used program profiling tool gprof. Their
paper on that tool was selected for the list of best papers from twenty years
of the Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
(1979-1999). She has done seminal research in compiler code generation and
optimization. She and her students have built several interactive
programming environments, yielding a variety of incremental analysis
algorithms. Her most recent projects are the Titanium system for
language and compiler support of explicitly parallel programs and the Harmonia framework for high-level interactive software
development.
Professor Graham received an A.B. in mathematics from Harvard
University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University. She is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was the founding
editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and
Systems. Among her awards are the ACM SIGPLAN Career Programming
Language Achievement Award (2000), the ACM Distinguished Service Award (2006), the Harvard Medal
(2008), the IEEE von Neumann Medal (2009), and the Berkeley Citation (2009).
She has served on numerous advisory committees; among them,
the U.S. President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC).
She served as the Chief Computer Scientist for the NSF-sponsored National
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) from 1997 to
2005. She co-chaired a National Research Council study on the Future of
Supercomputing. She was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers from
2001 to 2007and was President in 2006-2007. She currently serves as Vice-chair
of the Council of the NSF-sponsored Computing Community Consortium, and as
the Vice-chair and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Cal Performances.
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