William H. Sanders

William Harry Sanders (born 1961/1962) is the current president of the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was previously the dean of the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering.

Early life William Harry Sanders was born in 1961 or 1962, to Verna (née Semivan) and William Joe Sanders. He grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in computer engineering at the University of Michigan in 1983, a Master of Science in Engineering in computer, information, and control engineering in 1985, and his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering in 1988. His dissertation was titled "Construction and Solution of Performability Models Based on Stochastic Activity Networks".

Career In 1988, Sanders became an assistant professor in the department of computer and electrical engineering at the University of Arizona. In 1994, he became an associate professor.

In 2004, Sanders was the founding director of the Information Trust Institute. He served in the role until 2011. In 2009, he co-founded the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore. He served as the center's associate director from 2009 to 2020. He was acting director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the university from 2008 to 2010 and then served as its director from 2010 to 2014. On August 16, 2018, he became interim director of the Discovery Partners Institute. He served as interim director until 2020.