Oscar H. Ibarra#
| Membership Number: | 2523 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ibarra |
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
- 1984 - 1985 Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- January 1992 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- September 1993 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- March 1995 Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- 2001 IEEE Computer Society's Harry M. Goode Memorial Award
- October - November 2002 Recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan for senior scientists
- 2003 Elected member of the European Academy of Sciences (EAS)
- Included in Thomson ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) database of 230 Highly Cited Researchers in Computer Science
- July 2003 First Prize in Membrane Computing, announced during the 2003 Workshop on Membrane Computing, Tarragona, Spain,
- June 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
- 2007 Recipient of a Nokia Visiting Research Fellow scholarship
- Recipient of the 2007 Blaise Pascal Medal in Computer Science from the European Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (Informatics Section)
- 2008 Recipient of a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from the UK Royal Academy of Engineering
