{"351771":{"#nid":"351771","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Four College Faculty Members Earn Prestigious Fellow Honors","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFour College of Computing professors recently joined the fellows rank for several of the most prestigious science, engineering and computing associations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoth the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced their Class of 2015 slate of fellows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong the new fellows are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~afb\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAaron Bobick\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Interactive Computing, as an IEEE fellow for his contributions for activity recognition in computer vision.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hichristensen.net\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHenrik Christensen\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, distinguished professor in the School of Interactive Computing and KUKA Chair of Robotics, as an IEEE fellow for contributions to estimation methods for robot localization and mapping.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/home\/lingliu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELing Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Computer Science, as an IEEE fellow for her contributionsto scalable Internet data management and decentralized trust management.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/people\/c-david-sherrill\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Sherrill\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor with a joint appointment with the School of Computational Science and Engineering and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, as an AAAS fellow for his contributions in advancements in electronic structure theory and their application in seminal studies of non-covalent pi interactions.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are few greater honors in computing that to achieve the status of \u2018fellow,\u201d and every one of these professors stand as shining examples in computing not only among the College of Computing faculty but among computer scientists around the world,\u201d said Dean Zvi Galil. \u201cWe congratulate them and thank them for their ongoing wisdom, guidance, and expertise.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Four College of Computing professors recently joined the fellows rank for several of the most prestigious science, engineering and computing associations."}],"uid":"27998","created_gmt":"2014-12-03 17:10:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:04","author":"Brittany Aiello","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1629","name":"AAAS"},{"id":"12286","name":"Aaron Bobick"},{"id":"13933","name":"David Sherrill"},{"id":"4447","name":"fellows"},{"id":"11890","name":"henrik christensen"},{"id":"1187","name":"IEEE"},{"id":"31461","name":"ling liu"},{"id":"114601","name":"Press Release"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhillip Taylor\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENews and Media Relations Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ptaylor@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eptaylor@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ptaylor@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}