Desney Tan

Desney Tan is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and the manager of the Computation User Experiences (CUE) group. Tan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University under the advisorship of Randy Pausch. He was honored as one of MIT Technology Review's 2007 Young Innovators Under 35 (TR35) in 2007. He was also named one of SciFi Channel's Young Visionaries at TED 2009, as well as Forbes' Revolutionaries: Radical Thinkers and their World-Changing Ideas for his work on Whole Body Computing. He was the technical program chair of the prestigious ACM SIGCHI Conference in 2008 and will be general chair in 2011. His research interests primarily focus on Human-Computer Interaction and Physiological Computing.

External links

• http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?TRID=629
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/desney/
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/desney/publications.htm
• http://dub.washington.edu/people/desney
• http://visionsfortomorrow.net/young_visionaries.php
• http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/22/desney-tan-interfaces-technology-revolutionaries-tan.html

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