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Robert K. Cunningham

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Robert K. Cunningham
Alma mater
SpouseBarbara Shinn-Cunningham
AwardsFellow, IEEE
Scientific career
Fieldscomputer security, machine learning, electrical engineering
Institutions

Robert K. Cunningham is an American computer scientist and engineer. In 2021 he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh.[1] He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[2]

Education

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He earned an Sc.B. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, which he attended from 1981-1985. He studied visual processes as well as artificial intelligence in the former Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems of Boston University, where he earned his Ph.D.[citation needed]

Career

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He worked for twenty-five years at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, principally on computer security.[3] From 2018 to 2021 he worked on quantum computing at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.[4] He was director of the Laboratory of Physical Science at the University of Maryland (2019–2020).[citation needed]

In 2021, he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh,[1] while maintaining connections to Carnegie Mellon University.[5]

He was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2007.[6] He has served as chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative.[7][8]

According to Scopus he has an h-index of 13.[9]

Personal life

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He is married to Barbara Shinn-Cunningham.[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b "CMU official named vice chancellor for research infrastructure". utimes.
  2. ^ Robert Cunningham. IEEE Fellows Directory. Accessed October 2021.
  3. ^ Zissman, Marc A.; Cunningham, Robert K. (2016). "Cyber Security Research at Lincoln Laboratory" (PDF). ll.mit.edu/. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  4. ^ "The Promise of Quantum Computing". resources.sei.cmu.edu.
  5. ^ "Rob Cunningham". www.cylab.cmu.edu.
  6. ^ "Seven from MIT are named 2017 IEEE Fellows". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  7. ^ "IEEE Cybersecurity – Home of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative". IEEE.
  8. ^ "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org.
  9. ^ Cunningham, Robert K.. Scopus. Accessed October 2021.
  10. ^ "Brown Alumni Monthly Archives". archive.org. March 1995.