W. Eric L. Grimson, the Bernard M. Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has served as the Chancellor for Academic Advancement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since fall 2013. As one of the Institute's senior academic officers, Professor Grimson is a central advisor to President Rafael Reif on the Institute’s fundraising campaign's shape and strategy, and serves as his representative to alumni, parents, students and Institute partners. A member of the MIT faculty since 1984, Professor Grimson previously served as Chancellor of MIT, where he had oversight responsibility for graduate and undergraduate education at MIT, student life, student services, curricular developments, and other areas that impact student experience. Together with the Provost, he acted as advisor to the President in areas of strategic planning, faculty appointments, resource development, and Institute resources and buildings. Professor Grimson has also served as Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is internationally recognized for his research in computer vision, especially in applications in medical image analysis. Professor Grimson has been actively engaged with students throughout his career. For 25 years he has taught some 11,000 MIT undergraduates and served as the thesis supervisor to almost 50 MIT PhDs. Professor Grimson is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and of the Association for Computing Machinery(ACM), and holds a Doctor of Letters (honoriscausa) from Dalhousie University.