Jeffrey Vitter

Jeffrey Scott Vitter (born 1955 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is the provost and executive vice president for academics at Texas A&M University. [cite news|url=http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080709/NEWS09/80709026|title=Purdue Dean Named Texas A&M Provost] [cite news|url=http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/24270649.html|title=Jeffrey Vitter Named As Texas A&M Provost]

He previously served from 2002 to 2008 as the Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He was also the Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of Computer Science and department chair at Duke University from 1993 to 2002 and a professor at Brown University from 1980 to 1993. He received a bachelor's degree with highest honors in mathematics in 1977 from the University of Notre Dame, a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1980 from Stanford University under the supervision of Donald Knuth, and an MBA in 2002 from Duke University.

Vitter is a computer scientist with over 250 book, journal, and conference publications, primarily on the design and mathematical analysis of algorithms. He helped establish the field of I/O algorithms [J. S. Vitter, " [http://www.cs.duke.edu/~jsv/Papers/Vit.IO_survey.pdf Algorithms and Data Structures for External Memory] ," Series on Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science, now Publishers, Hanover, MA, 2008, ISBN 978-1-60198-106-6.] (a.k.a. external memory algorithms and massive data algorithmics) as a rigorous area of active investigation. He has made many fundamental contributions in
* databases,
* hashing [J. S. Vitter and W.-C. Chen, "Design and Analysis of Coalesced Hashing," Oxford University Press, New York, 1987, ISBN 0-19-504182-8.] and search data structures,
* randomized algorithms,
* sampling,
* prediction,
* data compression, including
** lossless compression,
** adaptive Huffman coding,
** image compression,
** video compression [D. T. Hoang and J. S. Vitter, "Efficient Algorithms for MPEG Video Compression," Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2002, ISBN 0-471-37942-5.] , and
** string algorithms
* average-case complexity [J. S. Vitter and Philippe Flajolet. [http://www.cs.duke.edu/~jsv/Papers/ViF90.AAA.pdf Average-case Analysis of Algorithms and Data Structures] . Technical report, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, B.P. 105-78153 Le Chesnay Cedex France, August 1987.] .He is a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (1986), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1993), a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1996), a member of Phi Beta Kappa (1977) and Sigma Xi (1983), and a Fulbright Scholar (1998).

Personal

Vitter is a brother of U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-LA).

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External links

* [http://www.vitter.org/jsv/ Jeff Vitter's web page with CV and links to publications]