Gary S. May

Gary Stephen May (born May 17, 1964) is the chancellor of the University of California, Davis.[1] From May 2005 to June 2011, he was the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He served as the Dean of the Georgia Tech College of Engineering from July 2011 until June 2017.

Gary Stephen May
Born (1964-05-17) May 17, 1964
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley,
Georgia Tech
AwardsAAAS Fellow (2008)
IEEE Fellow (2006)
Scientific career
Fieldscomputer-aided manufacturing of integrated circuits
InstitutionsGeorgia Tech, UC Davis

Biography

Early life

May was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was a member of the ANAK Society.[2] May graduated in 1985 with a B.E.E. degree in electrical engineering. He then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned an M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1991), both in electrical engineering and computer science.

Georgia Tech

May joined the Georgia Tech ECE faculty in 1991 as a member of the School's microelectronics group. His research is in the field of computer-aided manufacturing of integrated circuits. He was a National Science Foundation "National Young Investigator" (1993–98) and was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing (1997–2001). He has authored over 200 articles and technical presentations in the area of IC computer-aided manufacturing. In 2001, he was named Motorola Foundation Professor, and was appointed associate chair for Faculty Development.

May is the founder of Georgia Tech's Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Science (SURE) program, a summer research program designed to attract talented minority students into graduate school. He also is the founder and director of Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science program (FACES), a program designed to encourage minority engagement in engineering and science careers in academia. May was a National Science Foundation and an AT&T Bell Laboratories graduate fellow, and has worked as a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He is a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).

May is also the current faculty advisor for the ANAK Society.[3]

Notable awards

References
  1. Lambert, Diana (2017-02-28). "New UC Davis Chancellor Gary May earns $325,780 a year from outside board seats". The Sacramento Bee. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  2. "ANAK Graduates, 1980–1989". ANAK Society. Archived from the original on 2007-12-24. Retrieved 2010-04-28.
  3. "The ANAK Society". Archived from the original on 2007-12-24. Retrieved 2010-04-28.
  4. "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". AAS News. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2008-12-19. Archived from the original on 2010-03-14. Retrieved 2010-04-28.
  5. "IEEE Fellows". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Archived from the original on 2010-06-19. Retrieved 2010-04-28.
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