Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Yelena Yesha is a tenured Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She received her B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and in Applied Mathematics from York University, Toronto, Canada, in 1984, and her M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University in 1986 and 1989, respectively. She joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as an Assistant Professor in 1989. In 1994 she was promoted to the rank of tenured Associate Professor, and in 1995 she was promoted to the rank of tenured Professor. In 1994-1995 she was the Director of the Center for Applied Information Technology (CAIT) at the National Institute of Standards and Technolog. In 1995 she became the Director of the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (CESDIS) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. From 2009 through the present she is the Director of the UMBC site of the National Science Foundation Industry-University Collaborative Research Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research. She has published 10 books as author or editor, and more than 120 papers in prestigious refereed journals and refereed conference proceedings, and has been awarded external funding in a total amount exceeding 21 million dollars.