Positions Held

In March 1998 he became the Statutory Professor of Computing Science in the University of Oxford.

In March 2005 he took up a 5-year position as ARC Federation Fellow in the Mathematical Sciences Institute and the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University.

He is also a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS) and head of the Computational Mathematics group in the Mathematical Sciences Institute at ANU.

Degrees

• BSc Monash (1968)
• MS Stanford (1970) under the supervision of Jack Herriot, thesis Algorithms for matrix multiplication
• PhD Stanford (1971) under the supervision of George Forsythe and Gene Golub,
  thesis Algorithms for finding zeros and extrema of functions without calculating derivatives
• DSc Monash (1981), thesis Topics in computational complexity and the analysis of algorithms
• MA Oxford (1998)

Honours

• BHP Prize, Victoria, 1963
• Fellow, Australian Academy of Science, 1982
• Australian Mathematical Society Medal, 1984
• Forsythe Memorial Lecturer, Stanford University, 1990
• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1991
• Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia (IEAust), 1993
• Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1994
• Fellow, Australian Mathematical Society (Aust MS), 1997
• Fellow, British Computer Society (BCS), 2002
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, UK (IMA), 2003
• Hannan Medal of the Australian Academy of Science, 2005

Society Memberships

• Australian Academy of Science
• ACM (special interest groups SIGACT, SIGNUM, SIGSAM)
• AMS
• Aust MS and ANZIAM
• BCS
• IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society
• IMA
• LMS
• Sigma Xi
• SIAM

Curriculum Vitae

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