Dr. Sampath Kannan

Sampath Kannan received a Master's Degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. He was a post-doctoral fellow at DIMACS and an assistant professor at the University of Arizona. Since 1994 he has been at the University of Pennsylvania, most recently serving as Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He was on leave from Penn at AT&T Labs Research or a year from 1999-2000. He is currently on a two-year leave from Penn while serving as a Division Director at the National Science Foundation. His research interests are in algorithms, software reliability, and computational biology. He has published over 100 conference and journal papers, served on numerous program committees and been on the editorial boards of 2 journals.