Daniel Lidar

Daniel Lidar, professor of electrical and computer engineering, chemistry, and physics and astronomy, has been elected a Member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence. The academy recognized Lidar, who holds the Viterbi Professorship in Engineering, for his “outstanding academic contributions and pioneering research achievements in the field of artificial intelligence.” Lidar, who was elected a Fellow of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association last year, was also listed as a lifetime highly ranked scholar — No. 2 in quantum computing worldwide — by ScholarGPS