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Anthony Kuh received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1979, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1980, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1987. He previously worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and has been on the faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Hawai’i since 1986. He is currently a Professor and previously served as Department Chair. His research is in the area of neural networks and machine learning, adaptive signal processing, sensor networks, and renewable energy and smart grid applications. He won a National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Young Investigator Award and is an IEEE Life Fellow. He was a Distinguished Fulbright scholar at Imperial College, London.  He served as a program director for NSF in the Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems (ECCS) division working in the Energy, Power, Control, and Network (EPCN) group from 2017 – 2021 and 2023 - 2025. While at NSF, he was involved in many AI, data science, and machine learning solicitations including the AI Institutes, Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR), Transdisciplinary Research in the Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS), Accelerating Computer Enable Discovery (ACED), and the Mathematical Foundations of AI (MFAI).  He was also involved in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), Robotics, the Human Technology Frontier (HTF) and Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS).  He previously served for the IEEE Signal Processing Society on the Board of Governors as a Regional Director-at-Large Regions1-6, as a senior editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, and as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Awards Board.  He currently serves on the Board of Governors as a Past President of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA).