Michael Fellows - Curriculum Vitae#

EDUCATION

• 1985 Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California
  
• 1982 M.A., Mathematics, University of California
  

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS

• 2016-present: Elite Professor of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway
  
• 2011–2016 Professor of Computer Science, Charles Darwin University, Australia
  
• 2010-2014 Awarded Australian Professorial Fellowship funded by the Australian Research Council
  
• 2001–2011: Professor of Computer Science, Univ. Newcastle, Australia
  
• 1999–2001: Reader of Theoretical Computer Science, Victoria Univ., NZ
  
• 1995–2001: Professor of Computer Science, Univ. Victoria, Canada
  
• 1990–1995: Associate Prof, Univ. Victoria, Canada; 1987–1990: Associate Prof, Univ. Idaho; 1986–1987: Assistant Prof, Univ. New Mexico; 1985–1986: Assistant Prof, Washington State Univ., U.S.A.
  
• 2009-2017 Honorary Visiting Professor in Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London

AWARDS AND HONOURS

• 2016 Order of Australia, Companion to the Queen (AC).
  
• 2014 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
  
• 2014 Inaugural Fellow of EATCS.
  
• 2014 EATCS–IPEC Nerode Prize.
  
• 2014 International Gold Medal of Honor for Computer Science and Computer Science Education, ETH University of Zurich.
  
• 2010-2014 Australian Professorial Fellowship.
  
• 2012 My 60th birthday was a day of honor at Dagstuhl Seminar 12241: Data Reduction and Problem Kernels.
  
• 2009-ongoing Honorary Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London.
  
• 2007 Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize.
  
• 2006 Inaugural Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University.
  
• 1996 Erskine Fellow with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 1996.

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND RESEARCH FELLOWS

PhD students: Lars Jaffe (2016-present, UiB), Mark Hoover (1989, Educational Testing Services), Yasu Koda (1991, industry), Xiuyan Liu (1994, industry), Michael Dinneen (1996, Sr. Lecturer at Univ Auckland), Michael Hallett (1996, Director, McGill Medical Ctr), Todd Wareham (1997, Assoc Prof Memorial Univ, Canada), Patricia Evans (1999, Prof Univ New Brunswick, Canada), Elena Prieto-Rodriguez (2005, Lecturer at Univ Newcastle, Australia), Peter Shaw (2006, Sr. Lecturer, Massey Univ, New Zealand). Postdocs: Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira (2016-present, UiB), Ulrike Stege (now Assoc Prof at Univ Victoria, BC, Canada), Iris van Rooij (Director, Computational Cognitive Science group at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Univ Nijmegen), Mahdi Parsa (Researcher, Univ Strathclyde, UK).

EDITORSHIPS

• 2016 – ongoing Editorial Board Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  
• 2004 - 2016 Associate Editor of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  
• 2008 - ongoing Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Algorithms
  
• 2011 Guest Editor (with F. Fomin and G. Gutin) of Special Issue “Parameterized Complexity of Discrete Optimization” of the journal Discrete Optimization, 2011.
  
• 2008 Guest Editor (with R. Downey and M. Langston) of a double special issue of The Computer Journal (Volumes 1 and 3) with 17 survey papers on various areas of parameterized algorithms and complexity.
  

PROGRAM COMMITTEES

DMTCS 2002, FST-TCS 2002, COCOON 2003, WADS 2003, CATS 2003, ACSW 2003, CATS 2004, ACSW 2004, WG 2004, IWPEC 2004 (Co-Chair), MFCS 2005, ACSW 2005, IWPEC 2006, WG 2008, COCOA 2008, FAW 2008, ICYCS 2008 (Co-Chair), ALENEX 2009, IWPEC 2009, TAMC 2009, FAW 2009, COMSOC 2010, IWOCA 2010, LATA 2010, IPEC 2010, TAMC 2012, APEX 2012, MFCS 2012, FAW-AAIM 2013 (Co-Chair), LATA 2013, APEX 2013, IPEC 2013, LATA 2014, AAIM 2014, LATA2016, IWOCA2017.

His research has been supported by the following research funding agencies

U.S. Sandia Laboratories (1), U.S. National Science Foundation (2), U.S. Office of Naval Research (3), U.S. National Aeronautics and Space (1), U.S. Dept of Energy (1), Canada NSERC (8), Canada PIMS (1), British Columbia Ministry of Training and Development (1), New Zealand Marsden Fund (1), Victoria Univ Wellington, NZ (2), Univ Newcastle, AU (1), Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (5), Australian Professorial Fellowship (1), Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize (1), Bergen Research Foundation (1), Norwegian Research Council Toppforsk Award (1).