12 Facts About Ruzena Bajcsy

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Ruzena Bajcsy is professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is director emerita of CITRIS.

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Ruzena Bajcsy was previously professor and chair of computer science and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the founding director of the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laboratory, and a member of the Neurosciences Institute in the School of Medicine.

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Ruzena Bajcsy has been head of the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, with authority over a $500 million budget.

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Ruzena Bajcsy supervised at least 26 doctoral students who received the Ph.

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Ruzena Bajcsy was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005.

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Ruzena Bajcsy is the mother of computer-science professor Klara Nahrstedt.

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Ruzena Bajcsy's thesis was "Computer Identification of Textured Visual Scenes", and her advisor was John McCarthy.

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Ruzena Bajcsy has written over 225 articles in journals and conference proceedings, 25 book chapters, and 66 technical reports and has been on many editorial boards.

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Ruzena Bajcsy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine as well as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Ruzena Bajcsy received the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science for her innovations in robotics and computer vision, specifically the development of improved robotic perception and the creation of better methods to analyze medical images.

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Ruzena Bajcsy is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards.

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Ruzena Bajcsy received the Order of the White Double Cross, Second Class, on 20 September 2022.