Stephen E. Cross

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Stephen Edward Cross is an American engineer and university administrator. Since May 2010, he has been the executive vice president for research at the Georgia Institute of Technology, overseeing research across Georgia Tech’s colleges, research units and faculty, and providing central administration for research, economic development and related support units. He also directly oversees the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2) and the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC).

Before this, Cross led the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 2003 to 2010 and served as director and chief executive officer of Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute from 1994 to 2003. He began his career as a U.S. Air Force officer from 1974 to 1994, where he wrote embedded software for F-15s and F-16s and worked on software for cruise missiles, logistics and air traffic control.

Education and training: Cross earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1974, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1977, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983. He also completed the USAF Test Pilot School’s Flight Test Engineer Program, the Air War College, and the National Defense University. He attended Madison High School in Madison, Ohio (1965–1969).

DARPA and policy work: He was a DARPA program manager from 1989 to 1994 and chaired DARPA’s Information Science & Technology panel. He has served on various research and policy advisory boards and has testified before Congress on computing and technology issues.

Scholarly and professional contributions: Cross has published more than 60 research papers in computing. He is an IEEE Fellow (2003) for the development and use of modern software engineering techniques in advanced systems, and he has held editorial roles, including editor-in-chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems (1994–1997) and associate editor of the Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Systems Management (2003–2011).

Awards and honors: Defense Superior Service Medal (1991); University of Cincinnati College of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus (2002); Irish America magazine Star of the South (2010).