Michael McRobbie
Professor Michael McRobbie
- Post Nominals: AO, FAHA
- Fellow Type: Honorary Fellow
- Elected to the Academy: 2007
Biography
Michael McRobbie is University Chancellor and President Emeritus at Indiana University where he served as IU’s 18th President for 14 years from 2007–2021. Before that he served successively and concurrently as Vice President for Information Technology & CIO (1997-2007), Vice President for Research (2003-2007) and Provost & Chief Academic Officer (2006-2007).
McRobbie is a University Professor at IU and has held faculty appointments in Computer Science, Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Informatics, and Computer Technology. He is a computer scientist and philosopher who has worked in high performance computing and networking, artificial intelligence, automated reasoning, and various areas of logic. He has been principal investigator on many grants from the NSF and other organizations totaling more than US$100 million, has published a number of books and many articles, and has served on many editorial boards and conference committees. He served as co-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on the Future of Voting which produced the highly influential report “Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy”.
McRobbie is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2010 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia. He has been awarded seven honorary doctorates from the University of Queensland, Sungkyunkwan University, ANU, South East European University, Griffith University, Indiana University, and La Trobe University. He has received numerous other honors and awards from universities and institutions around the world.
McRobbie has served on numerous national and international committees in many areas of higher education, science, research, national security, and related fields. He has chaired the boards of the Association of American Universities, the Big Ten Athletics Conference, and Internet2, and served on the boards of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the IU Health hospital system.
McRobbie is a native of Australia and became a US citizen in 2010. He holds a BA with first class honors from the University of Queensland and a PhD from the Australian National University. Before moving to the US, McRobbie had held academic appointments at La Trobe University, the University of Melbourne, and the Australian National University.