{"637127":{"#nid":"637127","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sarkar Named as New School of Computer Science Chair","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing is proud to announce the appointment of \u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E as the new chair of its \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science (SCS)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Vivek is an experienced administrator as well as a cutting-edge researcher,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/strong\u003E, Dean and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair of the College of Computing. \u0026ldquo;He will be a valuable leader for the School of Computer Science and the College of Computing, and I look\u0026nbsp;forward to working with him.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSarkar joined the School of Computer Science in 2017 as a professor and the Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications. Prior to that, he was a professor and the E.D. Butcher Chair in Engineering at Rice University during 2007-2017, where he served as the chair of the Department of Computer Science\u0026nbsp;from 2013-2016. He also created the Habanero Extreme Scale Software Research Laboratory at Rice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBefore entering academia, Sarkar served as Senior Manager of Programming Technologies at IBM Research. He became a member of the IBM Academy of Technology in 1995, and was inducted as a fellow of the ACM in 2008 and a fellow of the IEEE in 2020. He has\u0026nbsp;served as a member of the US Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) since 2009, and on the board of directors for the Computing Research Association (CRA) since 2015.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;It will be an honor and a privilege to serve as the next chair of the School of Computer Science,\u0026rdquo; Sarkar said. \u0026ldquo;We have a great community of faculty, staff and students in SCS, and I look forward to all of us pulling\u0026nbsp;together during these exciting but challenging times for the future of our school and college.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the past year, the School of Computer Science has been led by interim chair and Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EMostafa Ammar\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;d like to thank Mostafa for stepping into leadership when his school and his college needed him,\u0026rdquo; Isbell said. \u0026ldquo;He has shown the kind of commitment to community that we all strive to emulate. I truly appreciate his thoughtful efforts during the past year.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSarkar will start as chair on August 16.\u0026nbsp;Please join Dean Isbell in congratulating him and the School of Computer Science on this new chapter.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The College of Computing has announced its new school chair for computer science."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2020-07-21 13:26:40","changed_gmt":"2020-07-21 13:53:51","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"631693":{"id":"631693","type":"image","title":"Vivek Sarkar","body":null,"created":"1580136074","gmt_created":"2020-01-27 14:41:14","changed":"1580136074","gmt_changed":"2020-01-27 14:41:14","alt":"photograph of Vivek Sarkar","file":{"fid":"240350","name":"Vivek-Sarkar.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vivek-Sarkar.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Vivek-Sarkar.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":574154,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Vivek-Sarkar.jpg?itok=A3KQxKSo"}}},"media_ids":["631693"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"170077","name":"Vivek Sarkar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnn Claycombe, Communications Director\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ann.claycombe@cc.gatech.edu?subject=New%20SCS%20Chair\u0022\u003Eann.claycombe@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ann.claycombe@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}