UC San Diego Engineering Professor Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

R. A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Tue Apr 27 18:58:44 EDT 2004


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      UC San Diego Engineering Professor Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

       SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- A computer
scientist and mathematician at the University of California, San Diego has
been selected for one of the most prestigious fellowships awarded to
scientists, artists and scholars in the United States and Canada. Russell
Impagliazzo, professor of computer science and engineering at UCSD's Jacobs
School of Engineering, was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow and cited for his
work on "heuristics, proof complexity, and algorithmic techniques."

        "This is an important and prestigious award that Professor
Impagliazzo richly deserves," said Mohan Paturi, chair of the Computer
Science and Engineering department at UCSD. "The Guggenheim Fellowships are
awarded to men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity
for productive scholarship, and that is a hallmark of Russell's work in
complexity theory and cryptography."

        The 80th annual fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation total $6.9 million and were awarded this year to 185 artists,
scholars, and scientists selected from over 3,200 applicants. Since 1925,
the Foundation has granted more than $230 million in Fellowships to over
15,500 individuals.

        Professor Impagliazzo specializes in computational complexity
theory, notably the classification of so-called "hard" problems that
require a prohibitive amount of time or resources to solve. His research
areas include proof complexity, computational randomness, structural
complexity as well as the theory and foundations of cryptography, in which
he is focusing on methods to safely use less randomness. Although it is
largely theoretical, Impagliazzo's work could lead to better encryption in
"smart" cards and technologies to guarantee privacy to consumers.

        Impagliazzo joined the UCSD faculty after receiving his Ph.D. in
mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1989. In 2003, he received two awards for
contributions to the theory of pseudo-randomness and cryptography: an
Outstanding Paper Award from the Society of Industrial and Applied
Mathematicians; and the Best Paper Award at STOC, the top
theory-of-computing conference.

        What distinguishes the Guggenheim Fellowship program from all
others is the wide range in interest, age, geography, and institution of
those it selects as it considers applications in 79 different fields from
the natural sciences to the creative arts (except the performing arts). The
fellowships are given on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past
and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

        The new Fellows include writers, painters, sculptors,
photographers, film makers, choreographers, physical and biological
scientists, social scientists, and scholars in the humanities. Impagliazzo
is the only UCSD faculty member honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship this
year. Previous winners from UCSD included mathematician Ruth Williams
(2001) and physicist Terence Hwa (1999). More recently, UCSD faculty
selected for the award came from the social sciences: comparative
literature professor Lisa Lowe (2003), as well as historian Takashi
Fujitani and new media artist Lev Manovich (both in 2002).

        Related Links

        Guggenheim Memorial Foundation:

        http://www.gf.org

        Guggenheim Fellowships News Release:

        http://www.gf.org/April072004.html

        List of 2004 Guggenheim Fellows:

        http://www.gf.org/newfellow.html#top

        Russell Impagliazzo Home Page:

        http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/russell/

        UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Department:

        http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/index.php



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