Anthony D. Joseph
Chancellor’s Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Joseph received his S.B. and S.M.  degrees in EECS in 1988 and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1998, all from MIT. He has been on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley since 1998, holding the Chancellor’s Associate Professor Chair since 2007.  Starting in June, he will be the director of the Intel Research Berkeley Laboratory.

His research interests include network and computer security, the security of machine learning in decision-making environments, critical cyber-infrastructure protection, mobile computing and networking, wireless telecommunication networks, overlay networks, and computer architectures for distributed systems.

Dr. Joseph is a recipient of the Diane McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in Telecommunications and Information Processing, an IBM Faculty Development Award, an Intel Foundation Graduate Fellowship, an IBM Corporation Graduate Fellowship, and a Shell Corporation National Achievement Corporation Scholarship. He is a lifetime member of ACM, and also a member of USENIX, IEEE, and Sigma Xi.

He has already served ACM in multiple roles: past associate editor for ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review; past technical program co-chair for the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2003); past editorial board member for ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks journal; past general chair for the Workshop on Mobile Computing Services and Applications 2006 (co-sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE); past member of the Defense Science Study Group (2004-2005).

 
STATEMENT

Our field of computer science faces a changing world. Economic and demographic changes are reshaping the role of CS in today’s society. If elected Member at Large, I will focus on:

• Exploring ways to expand distance learning for undergraduate courses and continuing education around the world. I’m interested in increasing the use of distance learning, especially as a distribution mechanism for reaching and educating students and professionals in developing nations. At Berkeley, I put my course lectures online, and I’ve received positive global feedback. While the cost of computing is ever-declining, the “human” overhead of creating online content has not decreased as much. ACM should help develop the necessary common technologies and services to enable organizations around the globe to distribute their knowledge and engage students.
• Identifying opportunities and mechanisms for using K-12 outreach to increase computer science undergraduate enrollments, especially for women and minorities. Our reduced enrollments are leading to a shortage of CS professionals. I will explore ways to connect K-12 students with CS professionals and academics. By publicizing trends in social networking, online games, and distance learning, ACM could play a vital role in attracting students who are more interested using IT than in the technology itself.
• Working with elected officials to educate them about CS topics, issues, and funding needs. CS has an increasing role in other academic and professional fields around the world, ranging from science (gene sequencing) to art history (image processing). CS is a necessary tool for these fields and government officials need to be educated about the need for balanced applied and basic CS research funding portfolios.