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PEOPLE:

 

Victoria Bellotti
  • socio-technical and interaction research
  • new technology opportunity discovery
  • personal information management, task management; user-centered design of context- and activity-aware computing systems

 

Tim Curley
Tim Curley
Director of Business Development

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  • focusing on drug delivery, contextual intelligence, and more
  • develops commercial partnerships and creates routes to revenue opportunities
  • developed partner and go-to-market strategies for startup and Fortune 1000 companies
  • MBA, Strategy, Pepperdine University

 

Christina Pavlopoulou
  • statistical/learning methods
  • querying large document sets based on content and visual structure
  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering & M.S., Computer Science, Purdue University

 

 

Peter Pirolli
  • human information interaction
  • Fellow of the AAAS, APS, NAE, and ACM CHI Academy
  • authored "Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information"
  • Ph.D., cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University

 

Ashwin Ram
  • manages PARC socio-cognitive computing research and health and wellness work
  • serial entrepreneur specializing in moving research to commercialization
  • directed Georgia Tech's Cognitive Computing Lab
  • Ph.D., Yale University; M.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology

 

 

 

Mark Stefik
  • working on web-based social indexes that re-invent how people discover, understand, and share information on the Web
  • hardware and software for collaboration in electronic meetings, object-oriented programming systems, expert systems
  • digital property rights for publishing led to creation of ContentGuard (acquired by Microsoft, Time Warner, and Thompson in 2005)
  • sensemaking technology for intelligence analysts
  • AAAI and AAAS Fellow
  • Ph.D., Stanford University

 

Jesse Vig

  • intersection of machine learning, social computing, and human-computer interaction
  • builds systems that learn from the collective behavior of users
  • designs intelligent interfaces driven by discovered knowledge
  • best paper awards at Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
  • PhD, Computer Science, University of Minnesota; BA, Mathematics, Oberlin College

 

Leon Wong
Leon Wong
Director, Market Strategy

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  • commercialization strategies and market opportunities
  • cleantech energy, advanced electronics, and health & wellness
  • previously director at Microchip Technology; chip design lead at networking semiconductor startups
  • MBA, Harvard Business School; B.S., EECS, UC Berkeley