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ABOUT ME

After earning a PhD from Stanford, Russ Greiner worked in both academic and industrial research before settling at the University of Alberta, where he is now a Professor in Computing Science (Adjunct in Psychiatry) and the founding Scientific Director of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. He has been Program/Conference Chair for various major conferences, and has served on the editorial boards of a number of other journals. He was elected a Fellow of the AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), was awarded a McCalla Professorship and a Killam Annual Professorship; received a 2020 FGSR Great Supervisor Award and in 2021, received the CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award and became a CIFAR AI Chair.  In 2022, the Telus World of Science museum honored him with a panel, and he received the (UofA) Precision Health Innovator Award, then in 2023, he received the CS-Can | Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award.  For his mentoring, he received a 2020 FGSR Great Supervisor Award, then in 2023, the Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring.  He has published over 300 refereed papers, most in the areas of machine learning and recently medical informatics, including 6 that have been awarded Best Paper prizes. The main foci of his current work are (1) bio- and medical- informatics; (2)  survival prediction and (3) formal foundations of learnability.

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2020

1986-1991

University of Toronto

PostDoc (Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence)

1992-1997

Siemens Corporate Research (Princeton) 

Research Scientist

1998 - Present

University of Alberta

Professor (Computing Science: Artificial Intelligence)

1976

California Institute of Technology

B.Sc. Mathematics and Computer Science

EDUCATION

RESEARCH SUMMARY

1985

Stanford University

Ph.D. Computer Science

EMPLOYMENT

PERSONAL INFORMATION

MAY 2003 - FEBRUARY 2004 

I used crutches

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1978

Stanford University

M.Sc Computer Science

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