Bio-style photos in various resolutions, both color and B&W Short bio appropriate for online education related activities:To shorten to about 250 words, omit the light-colored text More general bioArmando Fox is a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty Advisor for Digital Learning Strategy, and Faculty Advisor to the MOOCLab at UC Berkeley. His current research focuses on online and technology-enhanced education, especially in computer science; previous research includes high productivity parallel computing, cloud computing, and Internet services. His current teaching activities focus on undergraduate Software Engineering, for which he and Prof. David Patterson have written the successful textbook Engineering Software as a Service (saasbook.info) and which serves as the basis of Berkeley's first free MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). Before returning to Berkeley, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, where he was recognized for both his research (NSF CAREER award, the Robert Noyce Family Faculty Fellowship, the IBM Young Faculty Fellowship) and his teaching (the Associated Students of Stanford University Teaching Award, the Society of Women Engineers Professor of the Year Award, and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society Teaching and Mentoring Award). His collaborations with renowned computer architect and instructor Prof. David Patterson have included Recovery-Oriented Computing, Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems, the Berkeley Parallel Computing Laboratory, the ASPIRE project for high-performance and energy-efficient parallel computing, and most recently, co-authorship of the new textbook Engineering Software as a Service that reflects the state of the art in modern software engineering. He has been recognized as the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator of 2015, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, a Gilbreth Lecturer for the National Academy of Engineering, a keynote speaker for the 2013 Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, and a Scientific American "Top 50" researcher. In previous lives he helped design the Intel Pentium Pro microprocessor and founded a startup (subsequently acquired) to commercialize his UC Berkeley dissertation research on mobile computing. He received his other degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and the University of Illinois. He is also a classically-trained musician and performer, an avid musical theater fan and freelance Music Director, and multilingual/bicultural (Cuban-American) New Yorker living in San Francisco.Armando Fox is a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty Advisor for Digital Learning Strategy, Campus Equity Advisor, and Computer Science Diversity Officer at UC Berkeley. His work on technology-enhanced computer science education led to his receiving the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 2015. He gave a keynote at Tapia 2013, co-organized a panel on peer teaching at Tapia 2017, and has given numerous keynotes in Spanish on computer science education throughout Spain and Latin America. He is a classically-trained musician and musical theater performer, and bilingual/bicultural (Cuban-American) New Yorker living in San Francisco. |
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