Career
Vitter served at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas as provost and executive vice president for academics from 2008 to 2009, leading the 48,000-student university in the development of the institution’s academic master plan and launching initiatives affecting faculty start-up allocations, multidisciplinary priorities and diversity. He also oversaw A&M’s campus in Doha, Qatar.
From 2002 to 2008, Vitter was the Frederick Hovde Dean of the College of Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he led the development of two strategic plans, establishing a dual focus of excellence in core departments and in multidisciplinary collaborations. He oversaw net growth by roughly 60 faculty members and launched the collaborative design of an innovative outcomes-based college curriculum.
At Duke University in Durham, North Carolina from 1993 to 2002, Vitter held a distinguished professorship as the Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor. He chaired the Department of Computer Science for eight and a half years and led it to significant gains in ratings. From 1980 to 1993, he progressed through the faculty ranks in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Vitter is a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (1986), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (1993), a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (1996), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2009), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Young Investigator Awardee (1985), a member of Phi Beta Kappa (1977) and Sigma Xi (1983) and a Fulbright Scholar (1998). He is on the advisory board of the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate. He was on the board of the Computing Research Association from 2000 to 2009, where he continues as co-chair of its Government Affairs Committee. From 1997 to 2001, he was chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT).
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