Brent, Richard Peirce (1946 - )

Summary

Richard Peirce Brent has been Professor and Head of the Computer Sciences Laboratory at the Mathematical Sciences Institute and Research School of Information Science and Engineering, Australian National University since March 2005. Prior to this he was Professor of Computing Science and Fellow of St Hugh's College at the University of Oxford, England. Brent is one of Australia's leading mathematicians and computer scientists and is regularly engaged as key note speaker at international institutions and conferences. He is a Fellow of seven prestigious professional societies and an author of well in excess of 200 publications.

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Chronology

1968

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), Monash University, Clayton, Victoria

1968

Career position - Teaching Fellow in the Computer Centre, Monash University (eight months)

1970

Education - Master of Science (MSc), Stanford University, USA

1971

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Stanford University

1971 - 1972

Career position - Special Research Agreement Employee in the Mathematical Sciences Department of the IBM Research Centre in New York, USA

1972 - 1976

Career position - Research Fellow, then Fellow, in the Computer Centre, Australian National University in Canberra

1976 - 1978

Career position - Senior Fellow of the Computer Centre/Computing Research Group, Australian National University

1978 - 1985

Career position - Foundation Professor of Computer Science, Australian National University

1981

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), Monash University

1982 -

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1984

Award - Australian Mathematical Society Medal

1985 - 1998

Career position - Professor of Computer Sciences and Head of the Computer Sciences, Australian National University

1991 -

Award - Fellow, Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (FIEEE)

1993 -

Award - Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia (FIEAust)

1994 -

Award - Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (FACM)

1995 -

Award - Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (FACM)

1997 -

Award - Fellow, Australian Mathematical Society (FAust MS)

1998

Education - Master of Arts (MA), Oxford University, UK

1998 - 2005

Career position - Fellow of St Hugh's College, UK

1998 - 2005

Career position - Professor of Computing Science at Oxford University, UK

2003

Award - Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA)

2005

Award - Hannan Medal, Australian Academy of Science

March 2005 -

Career position - Federation Fellow, Professor and Head of the Computer Sciences Laboratory in the Mathematical Sciences Institute and Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University

2010 -

Career position - Distinguished Professor, Australian National University

2013

Award - Moyal Medal, Department of Mathematics, Macquarie University

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• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q93042. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/223659213. Details
• The Australian Mathematical Society Medal, 2024. https://austms.org.au/awards-grants/awards/the-australian-mathematical-society-medal/. Details
• 'Brent, R P (19460420-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-554444. Details