Bobby Schnabel
Vice Chancellor
Academic and Campus Technology
University of Colorado, Boulder

Bobby Schnabel is Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic and Campus Technology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In this position he serves as founding director of the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS), an innovative campus-wide enterprise that serves as a catalyst for multidisciplinary curricular, research and outreach activities involving the content and tools of information technology. He also serves as chief information officer for the campus, with responsibilities including planning and oversight for information technology and educational technology.

Dr. Schnabel has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder since 1977, and has been active in teaching, research, professional service, and university service and administration. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of scientific and parallel computation, including applications to molecular chemistry problems. He has received the University of Colorado Teaching Recognition Award, awarded by students, in 1980, and the University of Colorado Boulder Faculty Teaching Award, awarded by faculty, in 1987. He is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of numerical optimization and is the author of over 100 technical papers and has given over 50 invited conference presentations. He has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator on approximately $13M in competitive research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and other agencies. His book co-authored with J.E. Dennis Jr., "Numerical Methods for Unconstrained Optimization and Nonlinear Equations", is a standard reference in the optimization field and has been translated into Russian. He has served as associate editor or co-editor of five journals and on many professional committees and boards. Currently he serves as section editor of the Education Section of flagship journal of the Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics, SIAM Review; as vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the Universities Space Research Association; as a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association; and as chair of the Information Technology Deans group of CRA.

Dr. Schnabel served as chair of the Department of Computer Science from 1990 to 1995, and as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and Applied Science from 1995 to 1997. He has been particularly active in diversity-related activities, including chairing the diversity strategic planning process, and major strategic planning committees for the Minority Engineering Program and the Women in Engineering Program, in the College of Engineering. Schnabel was awarded the University of Colorado Boulder Faculty Service Award in 1998.

Dr. Schnabel received the B.A. degree in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1971, summa cum laude, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University in 1975 and 1977, respectively.