ALLEN SCHOOL - Key Persons
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- Member of the Group
- Electrical Engineering
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- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics
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- Adjunct, Global Health, Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation / Algorithms, Metrics and Evaluation, Machine Learning
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- Fabrication, Computer Graphics, Vision, Animation, & Game Science, Robotics
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- Assistant Director of Events ( Events and Event Spaces )
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- Adjunct, Information School / Human - Computer Interaction & Accessible Technology, Programming Languages & Software Engineering / HCI, Software Engineering, Computing Education
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- Human - Computer Interaction & Accessible Technology
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- Cryptography, Theory of Computation
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- Member of the Faculty Leadership Team
- Associate Director, Graduate Studies and Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering
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- Managing Director and Executive Committee Member
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- Theory of Computation / Theoretical Computer Science
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- Computer Systems & Networking / Distributed Systems, Networks, Operating Systems, and Security
- Short - Dooley Professor
Arvind Krishnamurthy is the Short-Dooley Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. His research interests are in building effective and robust computer systems in the context of both data centers and Internet-scale systems. More recently, his research has focussed on programmable networks and systems for machine learning. He is an ACM fellow, a past program chair of ACM SIGCOMM and Usenix NSDI, is the Vice President of Usenix, and serves on the ICSI and CRA boards.
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- Computer Architecture, Computer Systems & Networking, Programming Languages & Software Engineering, Security & Privacy
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- Adjunct, Information School / Human - Computer Interaction & Accessible Technology / Human - Computer Interaction
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- Member of the Group
- Electrical Engineering
Bob Ritchie - A founder, in 1967, of the Computer Science Group at the University of Washington, and the second chair of the Department of Computer Science. Jerre Noe and Hellmut Golde established our culture. Bob Ritchie established our national reputation. We have now lost all three - July 15 2019
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- Computer Science Education Computer Science Teacher Training and Pedagogy
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- Computer Graphics, Vision, Animation, & Game Science / Computer Graphics, Computer Vision
- Professor
Brian Curless, Professor, joined the Computer Science & Engineering faculty at the University of Washington after earning his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and B.S. from the University of Texas, Austin.
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- Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs / University of Wisconsin - Madison
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- Co - Founder / Stolte Family Foundation
Chuck Thacker - MAXC, Alto, Ethernet, Firefly, Tablet PC, and more; I was privileged to work with Thacker and Taylor at the DEC Systems Research Center - June 12 2017
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- Member of the Faculty Leadership Team
- Vice Director and Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
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- Data Science, Data Management & Visualization
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- Adjunct, Chemical Engineering
David Boggs - Close friend in middle school and high school, co-inventor of Ethernet (with Bob Metcalfe) at Xerox PARC - February 19 2022
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- UW Dean of Engineering, 1996 - 2005 a Strong Voice for Social Justice, Diversity, and Excellence - June
Denice Denton - UW Dean of Engineering, 1996-2005; a strong voice for social justice, diversity, and excellence - June 24 2006
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- Board Member or Technical Advisor
- Professor
Ed Lazowska is a Professor, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus, in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, and a Senior Data Science Fellow in the University of Washington eScience Institute.
Lazowska serves as a board member or technical advisor for a number of technology companies, venture firms, and technology-oriented civic organizations. He is a member of the Board and Executive Committee of the Washington Tech Industry Association, and until recently of the Tech Alliance of Washington and the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He is currently a PI of the NSF West Big Data Innovation Hub and of the NSF CloudBank national cloud access project.
Lazowska served as Chair of University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering from 1993-2001, a period during which its stature increased significantly. Along with Jeremy Jaech (Allen School alumnus and co-founder of Aldus and Visio) and the late Tom Alberg (Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group) he led the fundraising campaign for the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, which was dedicated in 2003; along with Brad Smith (President of Microsoft) he led the fundraising campaign for an additional building, the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering, which was dedicated in 2019 and provided the space for the Allen School to more than double its enrollment.
Lazowska was the Founding Director of the University of Washington eScience Institute (2008-17), and the Founding Chair of the Computing Community Consortium (2007-13). He was honored to be the inaugural holder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, which he resigned after 20 years in 2020, figuring that it was time.
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- Adjunct, Electrical & Computer Engineering / Robotics, Wireless & Sensor Systems / Control Systems, Robotics and Synthetic Biology
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- Security & Privacy / Computer Security and Privacy
Fred Brooks - Ignited my interest in research policy by inviting me to join the National Academies study committee that created the famous "tire tracks diagram"; I am proud to have chaired the Turing Award committee in the year he received it - November 17 2022
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- Molecular Programming & Synthetic Biology / Synthetic Biology, Biological Control Circuits
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- Vice President and Distinguished Scientist / Amazon
Hellmut Golde - A founder, in 1967, of the Computer Science Group at the University of Washington, and the Chair when I was hired in 1977 - April 17 2019
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- Assistant Director of Facilities ( Facilities, Operations and Safety )
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- Wireless & Sensor Systems, Computer Systems & Networking
James C. Browne - Founder of UT Computer Science, leader of the computer system performance community, and a major supporter during my early career - January 19 2018
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- Human - Computer Interaction & Accessible Technology, Ubiquitous Computing / Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing
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- Computer Systems & Networking, Programming Languages & Software Engineering, Teaching
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- Machine Learning, Theory of Computation
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- Parallel and Distributed Processing and Computer Systems Architecture
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- Chief Scientist
- Member of the Board
- Senior Fellow
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- Adjunct, Electrical & Computer Engineering / Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Data Management & Visualization, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
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- Fabrication, Human - Computer Interaction & Accessible Technology, Ubiquitous Computing
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- Administrator ( for Questions Regarding Finance and Policy )
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- Chairman, and Cultural Direction - Setter, of UW Computer Science & Engineering - November
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- Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
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- Human - Computer Interaction & Accessible Technology, Wireless & Sensor Systems, Ubiquitous Computing / Human - Computer Interaction, Accessibility, Ubiquitous Computing, Sensing
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- Milton and Delia Zeutschel Professor in Entrepreneurial Excellence, Room CSE 582
Joshua Smith holds a joint faculty appointment in the Allen School and the UW Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. He leads the Sensor Systems Laboratory, which invents new sensor systems, devises new ways to power them, and develops algorithms for using them. The group's research has application in the domains of robotics, ubiquitous computing, and HCI.
Projects include the battery-free mobile phone, RF-powered cameras, FREE-D (wireless power for Left Ventricular Assist Devices, a type of artificial heart); WARP, extracting power from TV and cell phone towers; and WISP, fully-programmable sensing and computing platforms that are powered by RFID readers. In the area of robotics, the group works on sensing techniques to support mobile manipulation and personal robotics. Smith's group has a Willow Garage PR2 robot and is developing a variety of novel sensors aimed at improving robotic manipulation.
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- Adjunct, Human Centered Design & Engineering / Human - Computer Interaction & Accessible Technology
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- Computer Science Education, Digital Logic, Computer Systems
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- Member of the Faculty Leadership Team
- Associate Director, Research & Communication and Paul G. Allen Professor in Computer Science & Engineering
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- External Relations Director ( Industry Affiliates Program, Alumni Relations )
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- Advisor, Mentor, Friend, and Wonderful Human Being - October
Ken Sevcik - graduate advisor, mentor, friend, and wonderful human being - October 4 2005
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor, Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Kevin Jamieson is an Assistant Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and is the Guestrin Endowed Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He received his B.S. in 2009 from the University of Washington under the advisement of Maya Gupta, his M.S. in 2010 from Columbia University under the advisement of Rui Castro, and his Ph.D. in 2015 from the University of Wisconsin - Madison under the advisement of Robert Nowak, all in electrical engineering. He returned to the University of Washington as faculty in 2017 after a postdoc in the AMP lab at the University of California, Berkeley working with Benjamin Recht. Jamieson's work has been recognized by an NSF CAREER award and Amazon Faculty Research award.
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- Director of Communications and Marketing ( School News, Publications, Media Relations )
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- Computing for Development, Human - Computer Interaction & Accessible Technology, Computer Systems & Networking / Computing for Development, Networking, Crowdsourcing
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- Adjunct, Human Centered Design & Engineering / Mobile and Wearable Technologies
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- Member of the Group
- Mechanical Engineering
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- Co - Advised With Ratul )
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- Adjunct, Electrical & Computer Engineering / Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Theory of Computation
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- Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology, Computer Graphics, Vision, Animation, & Game Science, Machine Learning / Computer Vision, Multimedia Retrieval, Biomedical Informatics
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- Tech Entrepreneur and UW Regent
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- Machine Learning, Theory of Computation
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- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
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- Member of the Faculty Leadership Team
- Director of the Allen School, Professor and Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering
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- Assistant to the Director
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- Adjunct, Electrical & Computer Engineering / Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics / Convex Optimization Systems and Control Theory
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- Artificial Intelligence, Computational Neuroscience, Data Science, Data Management & Visualization, Machine Learning
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- Director / University of Washington Foundation Board
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- Adjunct, Human Centered Design & Engineering / Human - Computer Interaction & Accessible Technology / Digital Fabrication, Rapid Prototyping, Advanced Manufacturing
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- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
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- Computer Systems & Networking, Cryptography, Security & Privacy
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- Artificial Intelligence, Web Search
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- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
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- Member of the Faculty Leadership Team
- Associate Director, Facilities and Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
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- Assistant Director
- Chairman of the Board
- Department Chair
Paul Young - Our department chair from 1983-88, Computing Research Association board chair from from 1988-91, NSF Assistant Director for CISE from 1994-97, and a mentor of mine - December 1 2019
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- Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Emerita / University of California, Berkeley
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- Member of the Board
- Jeff Dean ( Ph.D., '96 )
- President, Microsoft Research / Microsoft
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- Fellow Brown Alumnus and Member of DARPA ISAT HCI Visionary - July
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- Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Vision, Animation, & Game Science, Human - Computer Interaction & Accessible Technology, Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Vision, Animation, & Game Science, Human - Computer Interaction & Accessible Technology, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
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- Computer Systems & Networking / Systems and Networking
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- Professor at the University of Toronto
Ric Holt - Professor at the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo, and an authentic character. I learned a great deal from Ric, and co-authored two textbooks with him - April 12 2019
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- Computing for Development
- Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Richard Anderson is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics from Reed College in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1985. He joined the University of Washington in 1986, after a one-year Postdoc at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA. In 1987 he received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator award. He spent the 1993-1994 academic year as a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore, India, and the 2001-2002 academic year a visiting researcher in the Learning Sciences and Technology group at Microsoft Research. While at Microsoft, he led the development of Classroom Presenter, a tool for delivering presentations from the TabletPC. He was a founder of the department's Professional Master's Program and led efforts in Tutored Video Instruction long before MOOC's became popular. He was the 2007 recipient of the UW College of Engineering Faculty Innovator for Teaching Award. He was the department's associate chair for educational programs from 2004 through 2009. He spent 2009-2011 on an extended sabbatical, working at PATH, a Seattle based NGO working on health technologies for low resource environments. He continues to work with the Digital Health Solutions group at PATH on a range of projects including Projecting Health. In 2015 he founded the UW Digital Financial Services research group with support from the BMGF to address challenges in introducing financial technologies in the developing world.
Richard Anderson's main research interest is in Computing for the Developing World. He has done a substantial amount of work in educational technology, focusing on the Community Led Video Education model, first in the Digital StudyHall project and later in Projecting Health. He is now managing the Open Data Kit project which is developing mobile data management tools on the Android platform. Other areas of work in ICTD include work on Global Health and Financial Technologies. Previously, he has worked in the theory and implementation of algorithms, including parallel algorithms, computational geometry, and scientific applications. He has also worked on applying model checking to the formal verification of software systems, N-Body simulation, and pen-based computing.
Richard E. Ladner, Professor Emeritus in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, graduated from St. Mary's College of California with a B.S. in 1965 and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971, at which time he joined the faculty of the University of Washington. In addition to his appointment in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, he held Adjunct appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering and in the Department of Linguistics. He officially retired in 2017, but continues to do research and outreach activities.
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- Dean of Engineering at Berkeley and Fellow Member of the Microsoft Research TAB - January
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- Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology, Machine Learning
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- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Security & Privacy, Theory of Computation
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- Member of the Faculty Leadership Team
- Associate Director, Development & Entrepreneurship and Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering
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- Cryptography, Security & Privacy, Theory of Computation / Cryptography, Theoretical Computer Science, Computer Security
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- Artificial Intelligence, Human - Computer Interaction & Accessible Technology
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- Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Vision, Animation, & Game Science / Computer Vision, Computer Graphics
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- Computer Architecture & Compiler Optimization
- Professor Emerita of Computer Science & Engineering
In 1989 Professor Eggers was awarded an IBM Faculty Development Award, in 1990 an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, in 1994 the Microsoft Professorship in Computer Science and Engineering, and in 2009 the ACM-W Athena Lecturer. In 2018 she became the first woman to win the Eckert-Mauchly Award, the computer architecture community's most prestigious honor. Professor Eggers is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Eggers approaches her free time with a vengeance. She is a bona fide food snob, is an avid gardener and landscaper, and enjoys retirement exercise (golf and physical therapy). Recently she shot her first hole-in-one!
Susan Eggers, Professor Emerita of Computer Science & Engineering, joined the department in 1989, having received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley the same year. Her research interests were in computer architecture and back-end compiler optimization, with an emphasis on experimental performance analysis. With her colleague Hank Levy and their students, she developed the first commercially viable multithreaded architecture, Simultaneous Multithreading, adopted by Intel (as Hyperthreading), IBM, Sun and others and the winner of the 2010 and 2011 ISCA Test-of-Time Awards.
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- Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Emerita / University of California, Berkeley
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- Co - Advised With Ratul )
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- Joint Appointment With Department of Mathematics / Theory of Computation / Theoretical Computer Science, Discrete Mathematics
Tom Alberg - Friend, mentor and supporter to me and to so many others; co-founder of Madrona Venture Group among so much else - August 5 2022
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- Member of the Group
- Electrical Engineering
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- Computer Systems & Networking, Fabrication, Robotics, Wireless & Sensor Systems
- Computer Systems & Networking, Fabrication, Robotics, Wireless & Sensor Systems, Ubiquitous Computing
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- Co - Advised With Ratul )
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- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing / Natural Language Processing
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- Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology, Computer Graphics, Vision, Animation, & Game Science, Robotics