Ophir Frieder#
| Membership Number: | 4669 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://ir.cs.georgetown.edu |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 – present Research Associate, Institute of Information Science & Technology, Italian National Research Council (Pisa, Italy)
- 2015 – present Chief Scientific Officer, Invaryant, Inc. (formerly UMBRA Global, LLC)
- 2012 – present Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, & Biomathematics, Georgetown University Medical Center
- 2010 – present McDevitt Professor of Computer Science & Information Processing, Georgetown University
- 2010 – 2014 Chair, Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University
- 2007 – 2008 Royden B. Davis, S. J., Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies, Georgetown University
- 1998 – 2009 IITRI Professor of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology (On leave 2007 – 2008)
- 1996 – 1998 Harris Professor of Computer Science & Computer Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology
- 1990 – 1998 Assistant, Associate, & Professor of Computer Science, George Mason University (On leave 1996 – 1998)
- 1987 – 1990 Member of Technical Staff - Applied Research Area, Bellcore (Bell Communications Research, Inc.)
Fields of Scholarship
- Scalable information retrieval systems
- Multi-modal information systems
- Efficient computer communication protocols
- Secure medical information architectures
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Member – European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA)
- 2014 Fellow – National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
- 2008 IEEE Technical Achievement Award
- 2007 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Research Award
- 2005 Fellow – Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- 2004 Fellow – American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2002 Fellow – Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)
- 1993 National Science Foundation (NSF) National Young Investigator
