Dan Hammerstrom received a BSEE degree from Montana State University (with distinction, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi), and the MSEE degree from Stanford University. He was a 2nd/1st Lieutenant in the USAF for two years before returning to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a PhD EE. Dr. Hammerstrom was an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Cornell University from 1977 to 1980.

In 1980 he joined Intel in Oregon, where he participated in the development and implementation of the iAPX-432, the i960, and iWarp. He joined the faculty of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Oregon Graduate Center in 1985 as an Associate Professor. In 1988 Dr. Hammerstrom founded Adaptive Solutions, Inc., which specialized in high performance silicon technology (the CNAPS chip set) for image processing, neural network emulation, and pattern recognition. He returned to the Oregon Graduate Institute in 1997, where he was the Doug Strain Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department until 2005 when he moved to Portland State University, where he was an Associate Dean from 2005 to 2012.

He is now a Professor Emeritus in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Portland State. Dr. Hammerstrom has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, the Journal of the International Neural Network Society (INNS), the International Journal of Neural Networks, and he was an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology.

Dr. Hammerstrom was a Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) at DARPA from March 2012 to March 2016. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden and the NASA Ames Research Center. He currently has a joint faculty appointment with Halmstad University, Halmstad Sweden.

He has authored over seventy research papers and eight book chapters, and holds seven patents.

Professional Affiliations:

• IEEE Life Fellow

Awards and Recognition:

March 2016 Dr. Hammerstrom was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service.