Hava Siegelmann | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | Rutgers University |
Known for | Hypercomputation |
Awards | Meritorious Public Service Medal |
Scientific career | |
Fields | computer science, neuroscience, system biology, biomedical engineering |
Institutions | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Thesis | Foundations of Recurrent Neural Networks (1993) |
Doctoral advisor | Eduardo Daniel Sontag |
Hava Siegelmann is an American computer scientist and Provost Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1]
Siegelmann earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Rutgers University (1993) under Eduardo Sontag. Her dissertation was on the topic of Hypercomputation.[2] She earned an M.Sc. in Computer Science at Hebrew University (1992) and a B.A. in Computer Science at the Technion (1988).
Siegelmann was a program manager of several DARPA AI programs including Lifelong Learning Machines,[3] Guaranteeing AI Robustness Against Deception,[4] and Cooperative Secure Learning.[5] DARPA/DoD awarded her with the Meritorious Public Service Medal for her research and leadership.[6]