Colloquium - Michael Loui, "My Career in Computing: From Complexity Theory to Education Research"

Abstract: 
I will recount the story of my career in computing, mostly as an academic at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 1981. This story will include a parade of my "greatest hits": scholarly contributions in theoretical computer science, computer ethics, and engineering education research.

Bio:
Michael C. Loui is Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering and University Distinguished Teacher-Scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He held the Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professorship in Engineering Education at Purdue University from 2014 to 2019. He is a Carnegie Scholar, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education. Professor Loui was Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education from 2012 to 2017 and Executive Editor of College Teaching from 2006 to 2012. He was Associate Dean of the Graduate College at Illinois from 1996 to 2000. He directed the Theory of Computing Program at the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 1991. He earned the Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 and the B.S. at Yale University in 1975.