Susanne E. Hambrusch

Susanne E. Hambrusch is Professor of Computer Sciences at Purdue University. She received the Diplom Ingenieur in Computer Science from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, in 1977, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Penn State in 1982. In 1982, she joined the faculty at Purdue University. She served as the Department Head of the Computer Science department from 2002 to 2007.

Susanne Hambrusch's research interests are in parallel and distributed computation, data management and data dissemination in wireless environments, and analysis of algorithms. She is a member of the editorial board for Parallel Computing and Information Processing Letters, and she also serves on the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. She is a member of the external advisory boards of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and the Department of Computer Science of Virginia Tech. Her recognitions include inaugural membership in the Purdue University Book of Great Teachers, a 2003 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award from Pennsylvania State University, and 2004 TechPoint Mira Education Award Winner. She has been involved in numerous CRA and CRA-W activities and joined the CRA-W board in 2007.