Guohong Cao, Ph.D. '99 and Tamer Ozsu Ph.D. '83 join the elite group CSE faculty and alums who have achieved the rank of IEEE Fellow. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
Guohong Cao, a professor of computer science and engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, became IEEE Fellow for his contributions to algorithm and protocol design for mobile ad hoc and sensor networks. Guohong received his Ph.D. of computer science and engineering in 1999 from the Ohio State University. He is has been on faculty at Penn State since then.
Tamer Ozsu, a professor of computer science and University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, became IEEE Fellow for his contributions to distributed data management and multimedia database systems. Tamer received his Ph.D. of computer science and engineering (called Computer Information Sciences then) in 1983 from the Ohio State University. Tamer was the Director of the Cheriton School of Computer Science from January 2007 to June 2010. He is also a Fellow of ACM. He is the recipient of 2006 ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award, and the 2008 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award from the Ohio State University.