Hava Siegelmann

Hava Siegelmann is an American computer scientist and Provost Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Biography
Siegelmann earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Rutgers University (1993) under Eduardo Sontag. Her dissertation was on the topic of Hypercomputation. She earned an M.Sc. in Computer Science at Hebrew University (1992) and a B.A. in Computer Science at the Technion (1988).

Siegelmann was a program manager of several DARPA AI programs including Lifelong Learning Machines, Guaranteeing AI Robustness Against Deception, and Cooperative Secure Learning. DARPA/DoD awarded her with the Meritorious Public Service Medal for her research and leadership.