John Canny is the Paul and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley. His Berkeley faculty homepage shows he taught CS188: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence in Spring 2025. An official Berkeley EECS news profile says he joined the Berkeley faculty in 1987 and earned bachelor's degrees in computer science and theoretical physics and electrical engineering from Adelaide University, followed by master's and PhD degrees from MIT, with contributions spanning AI, robotics, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, computer security, computational algebra, and computational geometry.
