Leroy Hood is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a recipient of the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, and an ACM Fellow in the area of Operating Systems. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a Fellow in the ACM Special Interest Group on Parallel Algorithms and Computation Structures (SIGPAS).
Hood was named a "Distinguished Lecturer" at Harvard in 2014, and in 2017 was named a Distinguished Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, where he will serve as a "Professor-at-Large," with a research focus on software architecture
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He has been honored with fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, DARPA, university grants from Harvard College and Princeton University, and numerous awards from ACM SIGACT, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Operating Systems (TCOS), and ACM SIGCOMM. He has been awarded seven patents in computer systems technology, five in network computing technology, two in distributed computing technology, two in parallel computing technology, and one in operating systems technology.
He has authored or coauthored more than 300 papers and served as editor or coeditor for three books: A Software Architecture: Foundations, Modules and Design (coauthored with Chuck Hayes), Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (coauthored with Tom Leighton), and Parallel Computers: Principles and Practice (coauthored with Eric Grimson).