Mary Lou Soffa

Mary Lou Ehnot Soffa
Fields Computer Science
Institutions University of Virginia
Alma mater University of Pittsburgh, Ohio State University
Doctoral advisor Gary Lindstrom
Doctoral students Wei Wang, Tanima Dey, Jing Yang, Kristen Walcott-Justice, Lingjia Tang, Jason Mars, Wei Le, Apala Guha, Naveen Kumar, Gregory Kapfhammer, Min Zhao, Atif Memon, Tarun Nakra, Clara Jaramillo, Rastislav Bodik, Neelam Gupta, Jodi Tims, Tia Watts, David Berson, Evelyn Duesterwald, Chy-Ren Dow, Pat Pineo, Deborah Whitfield, Brian Malloy, Ravi Sharma, Mary Jean Harrold, Mary Bivens, Rajiv Gupta, Lori L. Pollock, George Logothetis, Ching-Chy Wang, Fernando Lafora-Garcia
Known for Work on programming languages and software engineering
Notable awards Ken Kennedy Award (2012)
ACM Fellow (1999)
IEEE Fellow (2013)
Website
www.cs.virginia.edu/~soffa/

Mary Lou Ehnot Soffa is an American Computer Scientist noted for her research on compilers, program optimization, system software and system engineering.

She is also noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She is on the CRA-W Board and was co-Chair from 2000 to 2003. With Jan Cuny, she founded the CRA-W Graduate Cohort Program and the CRA-W Associate Professor Program.

Biography

Soffa received a B.S. in Mathematics from University of Pittsburgh with honors magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She received an M.S. in Mathematics from Ohio State University and a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

She then joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh as an assistant professor in 1977. In 1983 she was promoted to associate professor and in 1990 to professor. She served as Dean of Graduate Studies of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1990 to 1995. In 2004 she was named chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, and the Owen R. Cheatham Professor of Sciences. She has directed 32 graduate students to completion, half of whom are women and two are minorities. She serves on ACM Council as member-at-large and on the ACM Publications Board.

Awards

In 2012[1] she received the ACM-IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award at SC12, the international conference on high-performance computing.

Her other notable awards include:

References

  1. ↑ ACM press release: http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2012/kennedy-award-2012
  2. ↑ http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/Service/Main
  3. ↑ http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1315167&srt=alpha&alpha=S
  4. ↑ http://theinstitute.ieee.org/people/achievements/introducing-the-2013-fellows
  5. ↑ http://anitaborg.org/about/who-we-are/mary-lou-soffa/
  6. ↑ http://www.sigsoft.org/awards/disSerAwd.htm
  7. ↑ http://cra.org/awards/habermann-view/2006_habermann_winner/
  8. ↑ http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw_archive/craw/currentEvents/
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