Prof. Jeffrey Ullman

Professor Jeffrey D. Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and the CEO of Gradiance Corporation. He earned his B.S. from Columbia University (1963) and Ph.D. from Princeton University (1966). Prior to joining Stanford in 1979, he served on the technical staff at Bell Laboratories and later as a faculty member at Princeton University. From 1990 to 1994, he was Chair of the Stanford Computer Science Department.

A globally renowned scholar, Professor Ullman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has held Guggenheim and Einstein Fellowships. His numerous honors include the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the Knuth Prize, the IEEE von Neumann Medal, and the NEC C&C Foundation Prize. He is the author of 16 influential textbooks on databases, algorithms, automata theory, and compilers.