Richard Herman
American academic
Richard H. Herman is a mathematician, currently Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, who had served as the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005–2009.
President Bush appointed Herman to his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, serving on subcommittees which advised the President on nanotechnology, networking and information technology and university-private sector partnerships. He co-chaired the High Performance Computing Initiative for the Council on Competitiveness as well as serving on the steering committee for its Energy, Security, Innovation and Sustainability Initiative and the Council's Executive Committee.
Herman served as chair of the Council of Presidents for the University Research Association in 2007. He also served on, and was chair of, the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee. Herman's research specializes on mathematical physics and operator algebras.
Early life
Herman was raised in his grandfather's house in Brooklyn. He attended Stevens Institute of Technology, where he received a B.S. in mathematics in 1963. He later received his Ph.D. in mathematics from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1967.
After graduating from Maryland, Herman taught mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1968 to 1972.
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