Biographical entry Brent, Richard Peirce (1946 - )

Summary

Richard Peirce Brent has been Professor and Head of the Computer Sciences Laboratory at the Mathematical Sciences Institute and Research School of Information Science and Engineering, Australian National University since March 2005. Prior to this he was Professor of Computing Science and Fellow of St Hugh's College at the University of Oxford, England. Brent is one of Australia's leading mathematicians and computer scientists and is regularly engaged as key note speaker at international institutions and conferences. He is a Fellow of seven prestigious professional societies and an author of well in excess of 200 publications.

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1968

Career position - Teaching Fellow in the Computer Centre at Monash University (eight months)

1968

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria

1970

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at Stanford University, USA

1971

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at Stanford University

1971 - 1972

Career position - Special Research Agreement Employee in the Mathematical Sciences Department of the IBM Research Centre in New York, USA

1972 - 1976

Career position - Research Fellow, then Fellow, in the Computer Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra

1976 - 1978

Career position - Senior Fellow of the Computer Centre/Computing Research Group at the Australian National University

1978 - 1985

Career position - Foundation Professor of Computer Science at the Australian National University

1981

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from Monash University

1982 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1982 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1985 - 1998

Career position - Professor of Computer Sciences and Head of the Computer Sciences

1991 -

Award - Fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (FIEEE)

1993 -

Award - Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia (FIEAust)

1994 -

Award - Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (FACM)

1995 -

Award - Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (FACM)

1997 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society (FAust MS)

1998

Education - Master of Arts (MA) completed at Oxford University, UK

1998 - 2005

Career position - Fellow of St Hugh's College, UK

1998 - 2005

Career position - Professor of Computing Science at Oxford University, UK

2003

Award - Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA)

2005

Award - Hannan Medal received from the Australian Academy of Science

March 2005 -

Career position - Federation Fellow, Professor and Head of the Computer Sciences Laboratory in the Mathematical Sciences Institute and Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University

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Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Brent, R P', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-554444. Details