Robert K. Cunningham

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]

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

Education

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.

Career

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).

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

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

References
  1. "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". cybersecurity.ieee.org.
  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.
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