Soha Hassoun is American computer scientist. She is Professor (since 2015) and Past Chair (2013–2016) of the Department of Computer Science at

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

. Hassoun's interests lie at the intersection of

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

and systems biology.

Biography

Hassoun earned her BSEE degree from the

South Dakota State University South Dakota State University is a public land-grant research university in Brookings, South Dakota. Founded in 1881, it is the state's largest and most comprehensive university and the oldest continually-operating university in South Dakota. The ...

(1986), MS from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

(1988), and PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...

(1997).Soha Hassoun webpage
@ Tufts In 1988–1991 Hassoun was an integrated circuit designer with the Microprocessor Design Group,

Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president un ...

. She worked as consultant for IKOS Systems (now part of Mentor Graphics) (1999–2001) and some other

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companies. Since 1998 she has been with Tufts University.

Awards and recognition

*2016: Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award *2015: IEEE CEDA (Council on Electronic Design Automation) Distinguished Service Award for chairing the Design Automation Conference *2000, 2007: ACM/

SIGDA SIGDA, Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design Automation , is a professional development organization for the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) community. SIGDA is organized and operated exclusively for educati ...

Distinguished Service Award *2002: ACM/SIGDA Technical Leadership Award * Senior member of

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operat ...

(2007) and ACM *2001–2006: NSF CAREER Award

References

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