Dan Hirschberg

EDUCATION

1975   Ph.D. (Computer Science), Princeton University
1973 MSE, MA, Princeton University
1971 BE(EE), City College of New York

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

University of California, Irvine
2018- Professor of Computer Science
2003-18 Professor of Computer Science and EECS
1994-2003
 
Professor of Information and Computer Science
and of Electrical and Computer Engineering
1987-94 Professor of Information and Computer Science
1992-93,96-98 Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, ICS
1984-90 Associate Chair of Graduate Studies, ICS
1981-87 Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science
Rice University
1975-81 Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

1998-2018
 
several law firms
Consulting expert for intellectual property cases
1984-94
 
Manufacturing and Consulting Services, Inc. (Scottsdale, AZ)
Design and analysis of database structures for CAD/CAM
1989
 
A-Chip Co., Inc. (Santa Ana, CA)
Design of data compression/decompression techniques
1984-89
 
Pick Systems, Inc. (Irvine, CA)
Design of operating system data structures
1986
 
Computer Cognition, Inc. (San Diego CA)
Design of data structures for AI applications
1978-81
 
University of Texas Health Science Center (Houston, TX)
Database development for genetics research
1976
 
Argonne National Laboratories (Argonne, IL)
System simulation, numerical analysis
1974
 
IBM Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY)
Research in combinatorial algorithms

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

referee of grant proposals for: Army Research Office, NSF,
      Israel Science Foundation, Research Grants Council
reviewer of textbooks for several publishers
referee of technical papers for numerous journals
Associate Editor, ACM Trans. on Mathematical Software (1988-90)
Associate Editor, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications (2009-)
Member, IEEE Computer Dictionary working group (1990-95)
Member of the Program Committee
IEEE Data Compression Conference (1991,1992,1993,1994)
Combinatorial Pattern Matching (1992,1993,1994,1996,1997,2009) [co-chair 1996]
String Processing and Information Retrieval (1998)
Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (2010)

UC ACADEMIC SENATE SERVICE

University Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction (2005-07, 2012-13), (Chair 1998-2002, 2007-09)

UC IRVINE ACADEMIC SENATE SERVICE

Campus Parliamentarian (2000-present)
Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction (1991-94, 1996-98, 2000-06, 2010-13, 2015-18),
                                (Chair 1992-94, 1997-98, 2003-06, 2011-13, 2016-18)
Committee on Committees (1995-99)
Executive Committee (1992-94, 1997-98)
Committee on Courses (1992-95)
Graduate Council (1988)
Committee on Research (1985)

PH.D. DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED

1986   Lawrence L. Larmore, Methods for Solving Breakpoint Problems
1988 James H. Hester, Probabilistically Faster Search Structures
1990 Cheng F. Ng, Computational Complexity of Stable Matching Problems
1991 Debra A. (Lelewer) Brum, Data Compression on Machines with Limited Memory
1994 Lynn M. Stauffer, Parallel and High-Speed Data Compression
1997 Steven S. Seiden, Randomization in Online Computation
1998 Jonathan Kent Martin, Machine Learning of Classification via Generalized Linear Models:
Theoretical and Practical Considerations

PUBLICATIONS


Last modified: Jan 23, 2019