Hava Siegelmann

Hava Siegelmann is an American computer scientist and Provost Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned a PhD in computer science at Rutgers University in 1993 under Eduardo Sontag with a dissertation on hypercomputation, an MSc in computer science at Hebrew University in 1992 and a BA in computer science at the Technion in 1988, and she also worked briefly at MIT. She was a program manager of several DARPA artificial intelligence programs, including Lifelong Learning Machines, Guaranteeing AI Robustness Against Deception and Cooperative Secure Learning, and the DARPA and the Department of Defense awarded her the Meritorious Public Service Medal for her research and leadership. Her publications include Computation Beyond the Turing Limit in Science in 1995, the book Neural networks and analog computation: beyond the Turing limit in 1999, and the paper Support vector clustering.