A: CURRENT POSITION

Professor and Senior Academic Division Head
Engineering and Information Science
The School of Graduate Professional Studies
Penn State Great Valley , Malvern , PA 19355
Tel: 610-648-3233 Email: drussell@psu.edu

Summary of Responsibilities

Dr. Russell has been with Penn State since 1985 and is the senior academic administrator for graduate programs and options in engineering, bioinformatics, and information science. He mentors 25 faculty and schedules, staffs, and administers over 140 technical courses each year, oversees curriculum design, and occasionally teaches courses in AI, IT Management and Real-time Systems Engineering. Since becoming Division Head in 1994, credit generation in engineering has more than doubled. He has special campus-wide responsibility for corporate outreach and off-campus programming and is a member of the campus Academic Executive Council. Dr. Russell is a past member of the University Senate and Graduate Council at University Park , and past chair of the Great Valley faculty senate. He was a member of the PSU Presidential task force that created the emergent School of Information Sciences and Technology. Among other campus, College, and University committees, Dr. Russell actively serves on the University executive committees of Enterprise Integration, which is part of the SAP University Alliance program and the Institute for Computational Science. Professor Russell designed and implemented two new professional degrees in Software Engineering and Systems Engineering and a graduate minor in bioinformatics. While not a priority at Great Valley , Dr. Russell has been instrumental in the award of over two million dollars in grants and gifts in support of the division's activities. He is a member of the executive committee of the Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance which is a consortium of universities and colleges devoted to computational cancer-research.

David Russell, while English by birth, is a proud citizen of the US who enjoys world travel and is an avid reader and participant in areas of ethical global responsibility.

Research Interests

His personal research interests focus on the philosophy of learning, the application of AI technologies to medical systems, and the control of poorly-defined, sometimes chaotic, systems. Dr. Russell is a Fellow of the prestigious Institute of Electrical Engineers in the UK , holds senior membership in the IEEE, membership in the ACM, ASEE and BCS (British Computer Society) and is a Chartered Engineer in the UK . He is a member of the IFIP WG 5.11 on Computers and the Environment and past vice-president of the IFAC WG in Real-time AI. He is chair elect of the Mechatronics Forum which is a European community of scholars that operates under the auspices of the IMechE in London . He is technology assessor for the NEAT project ' Remote rehabilitation using an intelligent exoskeleton with web-based control ' Dr. Russell was recently appointed Regional Editor for the Americas of the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology – a Springer-Verlag publication.

Academic and Administrative Credentials

For the past twenty years at Penn State , as both professor and academic administrator, Dr. Russell has focused his activities on scholarship, excellence and social responsibility. His focus has been on mentoring, exploratory research, outreach to corporations, service to the profession (usually via conferences, journals, and professional societies) and academic entrepreneurship . These activities have always been aligned with the University and campus strategic plans that he helped construct. His management style is very simple and can be summarized as leading by example and enabling. He does not shy away from hard decisions and is a great believer in data-driven decision making.

Mentoring

Dr. Russell has proven to be a successful mentor to faculty and administrators alike at Great Valley . He has a good success rate in matters regarding tenure and promotion and has enabled faculty and staff administrators to reach out to better serve the local companies and their employees who are PSGV students. He is attentive to diversity as demonstrated by 25% of the full-time engineering faculty being female.

B: PRIOR POSITIONS

C: SELECTED CONSULTING ASSIGNMENTS