Mehran Sahami

Mehran Sahami
Born	Iran
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Stanford University
Alma mater	Stanford University
Doctoral advisor	Daphne Koller
Known for	Spam filter
Website http://ai.stanford.edu/users/sahami/bio.html

Mehran Sahami is a professor and the Associate Chair for Education in the Computer Science department at Stanford University. He is also the Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford.

Sahami earned his BS and PhD from Stanford University under the supervision of Daphne Koller. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Google, Inc. as well as a Senior Engineering Manager at Epiphany, Inc..^[1]

Sahami teaches the introductory computer science sequence at Stanford. He led Stanford's computer science curriculum redesign from a large core to a smaller core with specialization tracks.^[2] Some of his lectures are made available on YouTube and iTunesU.^[3]

Sahami also co-chairs the ACM Education Board and Education Council.^[4]

Awards and honors

Sahami was selected by the 2013 graduating senior class to give the annual Class Day Lecture at Stanford University's Commencement Weekend ceremonies.^[5]

In 2014, Sahami received the ACM Presidential Award for "outstanding leadership of, and commitment to, the three-year ACM/IEEE-CS effort to produce CS2013, a comprehensive revision of the curricular guidelines for undergraduate programs in computer science".^[6]

References

1. Mehran Sahami. Robotics.stanford.edu. Retrieved on 2011-07-31.
2. Mehran Sahami Overview of the New Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum. September 26, 2008
3. Stanford School of Engineering - Stanford Engineering Everywhere. See.stanford.edu. Retrieved on 2011-07-31.
4. "ACM Education Board". ACM. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
5. "Stanford Professor Sahami to Class of '13: Use your 'superpower' to improve the world". Stanford University. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
6. "ACM Presidential Award". ACM. Retrieved October 29, 2015.