Mehran Sahami

Mehran Sahami
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Stanford University
Alma mater	Stanford University
Doctoral advisor	Daphne Koller

Mehran Sahami is an Professor and the Associate Chair for Education in the Computer Science department at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. He earned his BS and PhD from Stanford University under Daphne Koller. Prior to teaching, Sahami was a Senior Research Scientist at Google as well as a Senior Engineering Manager at Epiphany, Inc. ^[1].

Sahami teaches the introductory computer science sequence at Stanford. He led Stanford University'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].

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.

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Name	Sahami, Mehran
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