 Jehoshua Bruck, Ph.D. Jehoshua Bruck received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1982 and 1985, respectively and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1989. He is the Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, fault-tolerant systems, error-correcting codes, computation theory and biological systems. Dr. Bruck has an extensive industrial experience, including working with IBM for ten years both at the IBM Almaden Research Center and the IBM Haifa Science center. Dr. Bruck is a co-founder and Chairman of Rainfinity, a spin-off company from Caltech that is focusing on providing software for high performance reliable Internet infrastructure. Dr. Bruck is the recipient of a 1997 IBM Partnership Award, a 1995 Sloan Research Fellowship, a 1994 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, six IBM Plateau Invention Achievement Awards, a 1992 IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for his work on "Harmonic Analysis of Neural Networks" and a 1994 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his contributions to the design and implementation of the SP-1, the first IBM scalable parallel computer. He published more than 150 journal and conference papers in his areas of interests and he holds 22 patents. Dr. Bruck is a Fellow of the IEEE. California Institute of Technology MS 136-93 Pasadena, CA 91125 Tel: (626) 395-4852 Fax: (626) 577-5465 bruck@paradise.caltech.edu MORE INFORMATION For a list of publications and information about his research group, click here. |
 
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