Stephen Hsu
Stephen D. H. Hsu (born 1966) is an American physicist and university administrator.
Academic Career
Hsu received a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1986, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. After his doctorate, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and Superconducting Super Collider Fellow from 1991-1994.
He became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1995 before moving to the University of Oregon in 1998 where he became a full professor of theoretical physics. In July 2012, he was named Michigan State University’s vice president for research and graduate studies.[1]
Hsu regularly writes in a blog called Information Processing.[2]
Technology Work
He is a founder of SafeWeb, which was acquired by Symantec on October 15, 2003 for $26 million. In 2005, Hsu and fellow SafeWeb founder James Hormuzdiar founded RobotGenius, an Oakland based security software company.
Hsu endowed a permanent undergraduate scholarship at Caltech in his father's name (Cheng-Ting Hsu Scholarship), using SafeWeb shares.
Hsu also has an interest in psychometrics and human genetic variation, which he writes about in his blog and in other publications [3] [4] [5] [6]
He serves as scientific adviser to BGI (formerly Beijing Genomics Institute), and as a member of its Cognitive Genomics Lab.
External links
Footnotes
- ^ "Stephen Hsu named new MSU research vice president | MSUToday | Michigan State University". News.msu.edu. 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
- ^ "Information Processing". infoproc.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
- ^ "Nautilus Magazine: Super-Intelligent Humans". nautil.us. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
- ^ "Nautilus Magazine: Smart Machines". nautil.us. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
- ^ "ArXiv: Genetic Architecture of Intelligence". arxiv.org. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
- ^ "Intelligence.org: Hsu on Cognitive Genomics". intelligence.org. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
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