Marilyn Claire Wolf is an American

computer engineer Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electrical engineering and computer science that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers ...

who works as Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering and Founding Director of the School of Computing at the

University of Nebraska–Lincoln The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862, the school was known as the Universit ...

.Faculty profile
retrieved 2019-10-20. She is an expert in

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Education and career

Wolf attended

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1980, a master's degree in 1981, and a doctorate in 1984. After working at

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

from 1984 to 1989, she joined the

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

faculty, and was on the

Georgia Tech The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

faculty from 2007 to 2019. At Georgia Tech, she was the Rhesa "Ray" S. Farmer, Jr., Distinguished Chair in Embedded Computing Systems and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. From 1999 to 2000, Wolf was editor-in-chief of ''IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems'', and from 2001 to 2007, Wolf was editor-in-chief of ''ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing''. She is the author of the textbooks ''Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design'' (3rd ed., Elsevier, 2012) and ''High Performance Embedded Computing'' (2nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2014).

Recognition

In 1998, she was elected as a

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of the

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,SIGDA executive committee candidate bio
retrieved 2015-06-13. and in 2001 she was elected as a Fellow of the

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"for contributions to embedded computing." She received the IEEE Computer Society Harry H. Goode Memorial Award in 2019 for contributions to embedded, hardware-software co-design, and real-time computer vision systems. She received the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award in 2022 for her inspirational teaching of graduate students.

References

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