Videos – Richard D. Woods

Conversation about Prof. Woods’ life

Message from Prof. Dimitrios Zekkos providing context about the conversation videos with Prof. Woods:

“Interacting, learning from, and working with Prof. Woods has been the highlights of my time at the University of Michigan as an Assistant and Associate Professor during the period of 2017-2018. Prof. Woods was always available, generous with his time, and had so much to share. In late 2018 and early 2019, I convinced him to seat down with me and record some of these conversations. He kindly agreed to it. The first time we met, we started without an agenda, just a conversation, him talking and me listening with fascination and the satisfaction that I am recording this lecture and I will be able to listen to it again in the future. At the end of this first conversation, we agreed that it would be good to have additional conversations with a bit more structure, so that we cover chronologically the sequence of events in his professional life, which was our focus. We had a total of 4 different conversations, some of them lasting more than an hour. In the last conversation, Prof. Woods came fully prepared to talk about all of his students, one by one. He spoke about each of them with love and about their research with passion. Through their research, we understand Prof. Woods’ research interests and the scientific contributions his students made under his supervision”

Dimitrios Zekkos, Ph.D., P.E.
http://www.dimitrioszekkos.org
Professor, University of California at Berkeley

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