7/9/2013
William H. Sanders, a Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, has been named Interim Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). He begins his appointment effective immediately.
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William H. Sanders, a Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, has been named Interim Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). He begins his appointment effective immediately.
“Bill is a distinguished researcher and leader and I am excited that he has agreed to serve as the interim head of ECE” said Andreas Cangellaris, dean of Engineering at Illinois. “Under his leadership, CSL expanded and diversified its interdisciplinary research mission, and reaffirmed its claim as a global leader in groundbreaking research of broad societal relevance and impact.”
Sanders joined ECE ILLINOIS in 1994 as an associate professor and earned the title of professor in 1998. At Illinois, his research has focused on dependability and security evaluation, fault-tolerant computing, reliable and secure distributed systems, and computer networks and protocols.
In 2004, he become the inaugural director of the Information Trust Institute (ITI), which provides national leadership combining research and education with industrial outreach in trustworthy and secure information systems. At ITI, he is also the principal investigator of the NSF/DOE/DHS Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIP) Center which has received more than $26 million in funding to date.
Sanders holds a PhD in computer science and engineering; an MSE in computer, information, and control engineering; and a BSE in computer engineering, all from the University of Michigan. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Sanders has published more than 200 technical papers and is co-developer of three tools for assessing the performance of systems represented as stochastic activity networks: METASAN, UltraSAN, and Möbius. He is also a co-developer of the Loki distributed system fault injector and the AQuA/ITUA middlewares for providing dependability/security to distributed and networked applications.
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