Dr. Daniel J. Rosencrantz is an outstanding professor at the Institute and Program for Biological Complexity at the University of Virginia. He has made fundamental contributions in many fields of computer science, including formal languages, computational theory, compilers, algorithm analysis, database systems, large-scale integration, fault-tolerant computing, operations research, and discrete dynamical systems. He has also been included in several famous "celebrity lists" due to his numerous scientific achievements.
Dr. Rosenkrantz is also an honorary professor in the Department of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY), where he served as a professor for 28 years, including 6 years as department head. Before joining the Institute of Biological Complexity at the University of Virginia, he served as a visiting research scientist at the Institute of Biological Complexity at Virginia Tech for eight years. Dr. Rosenkrantz also holds positions at several well-known companies, including Chief Computer Scientist at Phoenix Data Systems and Information Scientist at General Electric Research Laboratory (now known as GE Global Research, headquartered in Schenectady, New York). He served as the deputy editor in chief of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and later as the editor in chief. In 1995, he was elected as an ACM Fellow. In 2001, he also received the ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award in recognition of his contributions in the field of database systems.