- Richard Herman
Richard Herman began serving as the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005, having previously served there since 1998 as Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs. Before coming to Illinois, he served as Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University.
- Jiawei Han
Jiawei Han is a renowned computer scientist who specializes in research on Data Mining. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously he was a professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. In 2003 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- Wen-Mei Hwu
Wen-mei W. Hwu is the Walter J. ("Jerry") Sanders - Advanced Micro Devices Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Hwu served as the chairman of the Computer Engineering Program at the University of Illinois. His research interest is in the area of architecture, implementation, and software for high-performance computer systems.
- David E. Goldberg
David E. Goldberg is a professor at the department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (IESE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is most noted for his seminal works in the field of genetic algorithms. He is the director of Illinois genetic algorithms laboratory (IlliGAL) and also the chief scientist of Nextumi Inc. He is also the author of Genetic algorithms for search, optimization, and machine learning, …
- Ralph Johnson
Ralph Johnson is a prominent Chicago-based architect and the current principal architect for Perkins+Will. Johnson received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University. He began his career at Stanley Tigerman’s office and then joined Perkins+Will in 1976, where he currently serves as its national design director and a member of its board of directors.
- Jawed Karim
Jawed Karim (born 1979) is the co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1982. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota. Karim grew up in Germany, and his family moved to the United States in 1992. He graduated from Central High School (Saint Paul, …
- Ann Marie
Ann Marie (born 1953, Wood River, Illinois, USA) is the stage name of the now retired big-bust model, stripper and actress, Kathy Ayers. She attended the University of Illinois before dropping out to pursue a career in nightclub dancing in Sarasota, Florida in 1974. As a feature dancer she earned up to US$3,500 a week. In 1975, she appeared as the "Fisherman's wife" and "Pink bikini woman" in the Russ Meyer movie "Supervixens".
- Cary Nelson
Cary Nelson (b. May 15, 1946), professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the current president of the American Association of University Professors and a prominent scholar-activist. He is a 1967 graduate of Antioch College. In the words of Alan Wald, "With the appearance of "Manifesto of a Tenured Radical" in 1997, …
- Lorado Taft
Lorado Zadoc Taft was an American sculptor, writer and educator, born in Elmwood, Illinois in 1860. After being homeschooled by his parents, Taft earned his bachelor’s degree (1879) and master’s degree (1880) from the University of Illinois where his father was a professor of Geology. The same year he left for Paris to study sculpture. In Paris he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he studied with Augustin Dumont, …
- May Berenbaum
May Berenbaum graduated summa cum laude, with a B.S. degree and honors in biology, from Yale University in 1975; she attended graduate school at Cornell University and received a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology in 1980. Since 1980, she has been a member of the faculty of the department of entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has served as head of the department since 1992.
- Robert W. McChesney
Robert W. McChesney is Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the Founder and President of Free Press, a non-profit organization working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for a more democratic media system.
- Temple Hoyne Buell
Temple Hoyne Buell (1895-1990) was an American architect. Buell was born to a prominent Chicago family and the grandson of Thomas Hoyne. He studied architecture at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed graduate studies at Columbia University. He served in France during World War I. There, he was exposed to Phosgene. In 1921 he moved to Denver, Colorado for treatment of Tuberculosis.
- Nick Holonyak
Nick Holonyak Jr. was born in Zeigler, Illinois on November 3, 1928. Holonyak was John Bardeen's first PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and later created the first visible semiconductor lasers in 1960 and the first visible light-emitting diode in 1962 while working as a consulting scientist at a General Electric Company laboratory in Syracuse, New York.
- Nancy Cantor
Nancy Cantor is the 11th chancellor and president of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. She received her A.B. in 1974 from Sarah Lawrence College and her Ph.D. in psychology in 1978 from Stanford University. She became chancellor upon the retirement of Kenneth "Buzz" Shaw. Previously, Cantor served Provost at the University of Michigan, and as chancellor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cantor is married to sociology professor Steven R. Brechin, …
- Larry Smarr
Larry Smarr is the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and Harry E. Gruber professor in the Jacobs School's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. Smarr is Principal Investigator on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project and is Co-PI on the NSF LOOKING ocean observatory prototype.
- Thomas Huang
Prof. Thomas S. Huang at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the leading figures in computer vision, pattern recognition and human computer interaction.
- Jerry Sanders
Walter Jeremiah Sanders III (born September 12, 1936), and best known as "Jerry," was a salesman at Fairchild Semiconductor in the 1960s. He was one of the company's best sales people and was famous for style and flair. He then co-founded Advanced Micro Devices and took his trademark style into his position as its CEO. Jerry Sanders III grew up in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, raised by his paternal grandparents.
- Milton Feng
Milton Feng co-created the first transistor laser, working with Nick Holonyak in 2004. The paper discussing their work was voted in 2006 as one of the five most important papers published by the American Institute of Physics since its founding 75 years ago. He is currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds the Nick Holonyak Jr. Professorship.
- Michael Heath
Professor Michael T. Heath (b. 1946 December 11) is a computer scientist who specializes in scientific computing. He currently holds the Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the director of the Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets, a Department of Energy-sponsored computing center and the Computatational Science and Engineering Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr.
- Donna Cox
Donna Cox is a Professor of Art at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since the middle 1980s, she has been a leader in the field of Scientific Visualization. She is credited with the invention of the Renaissance Team, which brings together artists, scientists, and technologists to produce images and movies of scientific data. She is also responsible for some important algorithms in computer graphics, …
- David Williams
David Williams (born 1963) is a former American football player and wide receiver. Williams was named consensus All-American twice at the University of Illinois, and is an inducted member of the College Football Hall of Fame. Williams was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2005. Williams attended Serra High School in Los Angeles, California.
- Steve Chen
Steve Shih Chen (born August 1978 in Taiwan) is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Chen grew up in Taiwan until the age of 8, when his family emigrated to the United States. He attended high school at John Hersey High School as well as the Illinois Math and Science Academy and college from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
- Steve Chen
Steve Chen (born 1944 in Taiwan) is a computer engineer and pioneer. Chen is the founder and CEO of Galactic Computing, a developer of supercomputing blade systems, based in Shenzhen, China. Chen holds a M.S. from Villanova University and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is best known as the principal designer of the Cray X-MP multiprocessor supercomputer. Chen left Cray Research in 1987.
- Paul Lauterbur
Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible. Born and raised in Sidney, Ohio, Lauterbur graduated from Sidney High School, where a new Chemistry, Physics, and Biology wing was dedicated in his honor.
- Carl Woese
Carl Richard Woese (born July 15 1928, Syracuse, New York) is an American microbiologist famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain or kingdom of life) in 1977 by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique pioneered by Woese and which is now standard practice. He was also the originator of the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, although not by that name.
- Max Levchin
Max Levchin (b. 1975) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former Chief technology officer of PayPal. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, …
- Ray Ozzie
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- John Hope
John Raymond Hope (May 14, 1919-June 13, 2002) was an American meteorologist who specialized in hurricane forecasting and was an on-air personality on The Weather Channel. Born in Pennsylvania, Hope served as a flight navigator in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After returning to civilian life, Hope earned a degree in meteorology from the University of Illinois. He then worked as a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Memphis, Tennessee, …
- Lilian G. Katz
Lilian Katz is a Professor Emerita of Early Childhood Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she is also Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary & Early Childhood Education. She is a Past President of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and is editor of the first on-line peer reviewed early childhood journal, Early childhood Research & Practice.
- David Roediger
David R. Roediger (July 13, 1952) is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research interests include the construction of racial identity, class structures, and the history of American radicalism. He writes from an admittedly Marxist theoretical framework.
- James J. Stukel
James J. Stukel served as the 15th President of the University of Illinois. He was born on March 30, 1937 in Joliet, Illinois. He earned his B.S. degree from Purdue University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After the completion of his Ph.D., President Stukel joined the faculty of the Engineering College. He rose to the level of Associate Dean before transferring to the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Nikita Borisov
Nikita Borisov is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, currently an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His notable work includes one of the first cryptanalyses of the WEP wireless encryption protocol together with Ian Goldberg and David Wagner, and the design of the Off-the-Record Messaging protocol with Goldberg.
- George Gollin
George Gollin has been a full Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign since 1989, and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation since 2006. His scientific interests tend to focus on questions concerning the structure and origins of the equations describing the interactions between matter and energy, as well as the fundamental nature of space and time at very small distance scales.
- Avery Brundage
Avery Brundage (September 28 1887 - May 8 1975) was an American athlete, sports official, art collector and philanthropist. He has been heavily criticized for decisions he took as a member of the United States Olympic Committee and as president of the International Olympic Committee, many of which would now be classed as racist. Born in Detroit, Brundage studied civil engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1909.
- Michael Gorman
Michael Gorman (b. 1941), grew up in London, England and gained an interest in libraries in part through his experiences at the Hendon library run by Eileen Colwell. He attended Ealing Technical College (now Thames Valley University) in London from 1964-1966.
- Werner Baer
Werner Baer is an economist at the University of Illinois. He received his Bachelor's degree from Queen's College in 1953, and a Master's and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1955 and 1958 respectively. His research centers on Latin America's industrialization and economics development, especially of Brazil. Rafael Correa, the current president of Ecuador, was advised by Baer during his time at Illinois.
- Eric Bina
Eric J. Bina (born October 1964) is the co-creator of Mosaic and the co-founder of Netscape. In 1993, Bina along with Marc Andreessen authored the first version of Mosaic while working as a programmer at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bina attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, …
- Tim Finin
Tim Finin is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He has over 30 years of experience in the applications of Artificial Intelligence to problems in information systems, intelligent interfaces and robotics and is currently working on the theory and applications of intelligent software agents, the semantic web, and mobile computing. He holds degrees from MIT and the University of Illinois.
- David Forsyth
David Forsyth is an American computer scientist and full professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, born in South Africa. He is married to Margaret Fleck, who is also a professor at the University of Illinois. He holds a BSc and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and an MA and D.Phil from Oxford University.
- David Wright
David Wright is an American writer who grew up in Borger, Texas. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College, and an M.F.A. from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He also studied at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Before he started teaching creative writing, he was a player/coach on various American football teams in Paris and London. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.