Kent Fuchs is the president of the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.  Upon taking office on January 1, 2015, he became the university’s twelfth president.  He previously served as provost of Cornell University from 2009 through 2014.  Fuchs was the Joseph Silbert Dean of the Cornell University College of Engineering from 2002 through 2008.  He has also served as head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, and Michael J. and Katherine R. Birck Distinguished Professor, from 1996 to 2002, and professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, from 1985 to 1996.

Fuchs is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the IEEE, and Fellow of the ACM.  He is a member of Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary Society) and Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honorary Society).

He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, the Alumni Award for Distinguished Service from the University of Illinois College of Engineering, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. While at Purdue University he was appointed as a distinguished professor.

Fuchs holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) from Duke University, a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Fuchs is married to Linda Moskeland Fuchs. They have four children, a daughter-in-law, and a grandson.

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