Sherwood – IEEE Fellow
CS Professor Tim Sherwood elevated to the rank of Fellow, the highest grade of membership that the institute confers upon its members
Excerpt from CoE News article "Extraordinary Accomplishments"
Computer science professor Timothy Sherwood says that his desire to live in a world where people can really trust all computers to be free from any easy-to-exploit vulnerabilities fuels his research, which lies in the areas of computer architecture. Specifically, he develops novel high-throughput hardware and software methods to monitor and analyze systems. Such techniques offer critical insight on performance anomalies, energy efficiency, and software bugs, while helping to secure critical systems from attacks.
"My collaborators and I have been working on different approaches to this problem with the vision that a more mathematically well-defined form of computation can avoid many of these problems," said Sherwood. "That perhaps sounds a bit theoretical, but outside-the-box thinking has already led to new ways of building computing machines, with implications for building more secure hardware, for energy-efficient computing with superconducting electronics, and for how we maintain our privacy in an age of hyper-connectedness and beyond."
Being selected as an IEEE Fellow is considered an extraordinary accomplishment to members and is a distinction that Sherwood is grateful to receive. He was cited by his peers for his "contributions to computer system security and performance analysis."
"Elevation to IEEE Fellow is a wonderful honor, and I simply could not be more pleased to be recognized,” said Sherwood. “UC Santa Barbara is an amazing place for research, and I am just so appreciative of the collaborative and interdisciplinary spirit of this place. My students and colleagues here are what keep me going and each day with them brings new discoveries and surprises that really add up over the years."
Previous honors received by Sherwood include the Maurice Wilkes Award for outstanding contributions to computer architecture from the Association for Computing Machinery, numerous best paper awards from top conferences, as well as the Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award and the Distinguished Teaching Award from UCSB’s Academic Senate.
The IEEE includes more than 400,000 members from nearly 160 countries. The total number of fellows selected in a year cannot exceed one-tenth of one-percent of the IEEE’s voting membership. The Class of 2022 Fellows includes nearly three hundred members.
CoE News – "Extraordinary Accomplishments" (full article)
