W. Kent Fuchs

About

Professor Fuchs was appointed Cornell’s provost in 2009. He served as Cornell’s Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering from 2002-2008. He was formerly the head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Michael J. and Katherine R. Birck Distinguished Professor at Purdue University, 1996-2002. Prior to that appointment, he was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, 1985-1996. He was named the 12th President of the University of Florida, and began this position January 1, 2015. Fuchs research interests focus on computer engineering, particularly, dependable computing and failure diagnosis. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association f

Education

• B.S.E., Duke University 1977
• M.S., University of Illinois 1982
• M. Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School 1984
• Ph.D., Electrical and Communications Engineering, University of Illinois 1985