Mehran Sahami — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Recipient of the 2014 ACM Presidential Award for leadership in the Computer Science Curricula 2013 guidelines.
Serves as Professor (Teaching) and Chair of the Computer Science department at Stanford University.
Led Stanford's computer science curriculum redesign and co-chaired the ACM/IEEE-CS joint task force on Computer Science Curricula 2013.
His research interests include computer science education, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and ethics.
Previously worked as a senior research scientist at Google, Inc.
Earned his Bachelor of Science degree (1992) and PhD (1999) from Stanford University.

Biography

Mehran Sahami is the James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor in the School of Engineering, and Professor (Teaching) and Chair of the Computer Science department at Stanford University. He also holds the title of Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Sahami earned both his Bachelor of Science degree in 1992 and his PhD in 1999 from Stanford University.