February 11, 2005
Purdue trustees honor three professors, award posthumous degree
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue University Board of Trustees today (Friday, Feb. 11) approved designated professorships for three faculty members and awarded a posthumous degree to a student who was enrolled at the Fort Wayne campus.
Board members approved appointments for William S. Cleveland as the Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Alexandre Eremenko as a Purdue Distinguished Professor and Kaushik Roy as the Roscoe H. George Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. With these appointments, the Purdue faculty has 105 named or distinguished professors.
"These faculty are distinguished professors in every way," said Provost Sally Mason. "In the lab and in the classroom, they are at the top of their professions."
Distinguished and named professors are individuals whose achievements in scholarship or research have been internationally recognized or who have made a unique contribution to the university through scholarship, research, teaching or leadership functions.
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Cleveland, a professor of statistics and computer science, joined Purdue's faculty a year ago after spending 21 years at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. He is a world-renowned statistician in broad areas of data analysis. He has made extensive contributions to analysis of time series, nonparametric regression, statistical modeling of a variety of phenomena and statistical software development.
He has twice won the Wilcoxon Prize and once won the Youden Prize from the statistics journal Technometrics. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Association of the Advancement of Science and the International Statistical Institute.
Named Statistician of the Year by the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Cleveland was selected as a highly cited researcher by the American Society for Information Science & Technology in the newly formed mathematics category.
Cleveland received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Princeton and a doctorate in statistics from Yale University.
Cleveland's professorship is named for Shanti S. Gupta, who founded Purdue's Department of Statistics in 1968. Gupta was a professor at Purdue from 1962 until 1995. He died Jan. 11, 2002.
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Eremenko, a professor of mathematics, has been at Purdue since 1991 and is one of the world's leaders in complex function theory. He has made contributions in several areas of mathematics, including complex dynamics, ordinary differential equations, real analytic geometry, Fourier analysis and control theory.
He has received the H.N. McCoy Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Award and is a member of the presidium of the Kharkov Mathematical Society.
Born in the former Soviet Union, Eremenko received his doctorate from Rostov State University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. He earned his doctor of science degree from the Institute of Mathematics in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Roy, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been at Purdue since 1990 after working for Texas Instruments in Dallas. His research interests include low-power electronics, silicon and non-silicon device/circuit co-design and VLSI signal and image processing.
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Roy received his undergraduate degree in electronics and electrical communications engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, in 1983 and earned his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990.
He has received numerous awards, including the National Science Foundation Career Development Award, IBM faculty partnership award, ATT/Lucent Foundation Award, SRC Inventor Award, Faculty Scholar and several best paper awards. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Roy's professorship is named for Roscoe H. George, who was a 1922 Purdue engineering graduate. George received a master's degree from Purdue in 1927 after producing a cathode ray oscillograph used in science labs to photograph lightning and high-voltage electricity.
Trustees also approved awarding a posthumous bachelor of arts degree to Benjamin Wiegman, who died on Nov. 30, 2004. He was a student in the communication department at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Wiegman had completed 95 percent of the credit hours required for the degree and was scheduled to graduate in December.
Writer: Maggie Morris, (765) 494-2432, maggiemorris@purdue.edu
Sources: Sally Mason, (765) 494-9709, sfmason@purdue.edu
Alexandre Eremenko, (765) 494-1975, eremenko@math.purdue.edu
William S. Cleveland, (765) 494-6045, wsc@cs.purdue.edu
Kaushik Roy, (765)494-2361, kaushik@ecn.purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
Related Web sites:
Purdue Department of Mathematics
Purdue Department of Computer Science
Purdue Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
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