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Mehran Sahami James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor in the School of Engineering Tencent Chair, Computer Science Department Professor (Teaching) of Computer Science Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Office: Gates Building, Room 274 Computer Science Department Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 Email: sahami at cs.stanford.edu Office Phone: (650) 723-6059

Bio

Previously, I worked for several years as a Senior Engineering Manager at Epiphany. Prior to working at Epiphany, I completed my PhD in the Computer Science Department at Stanford. I was also an undergrad at Stanford and I loved it so much that I didn't want to leave.

Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with family, playing the guitar, going on outdoor excursions, and sleeping (which seems to be getting rarer and rarer these days). I also continue to maintain a foot in the start-up world by serving on advisory boards to various companies.

Undergraduate Computer Science Major

• If you are thinking about Computer Science as a potential major, you can find more information here.

Current Stuff O' Interest (i.e., Professional Activities)

• ACM Steering Committee Chair, ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula 2013 (CS2013)
  Jointly sponsored by ACM and the IEEE-Computer Society, CS2013 is effort to define curricular guidelines for undergraduate programs in Computer Science on an international level.

• Founder and first Chair (in 2010), EAAI: Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence.
  Sponsored by AAAI, EAAI is an annual meeting for researchers and educators to discuss pedagogical issues and share resources related to teaching AI and using AI in education across a variety of curricular levels.

• Text Mining book available!

     
  Ashok Srivastava (NASA) and I published a book entitled "Text Mining: Classification, Clustering, and Applications." The book is available from Amazon.

• Selected Publications

• Classes that I'm currently scheduled to teach this year (2022-23) are:
  • Winter: CS182: Ethics, Public Policy, and Technological Change

  • Spring: CS106A: Programming Methodology

• Here's a video a former student of mine posted on YouTube about it being a great time to be a computer scientist.

• Stanford has released on-line videos and materials for several courses through the Stanford Engineering Everywhere initiative. The lecture videos are also available through YouTube. Here is a sample of courses:
  • CS106A
  • CS106B

Older Stuff That You Might Still Want Links To

• 2008 AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to motivate greater participation in Computer Science.

• In the summer of 2007 I organized the Google Education Summit. A posting on the Google blog provides more information about the summit and has links to the presentations given there.

• With Thorsten Joachims, Andrew McCallum and Lyle Ungar, I co-organized an IJCAI-99 workshop on Machine Learning for Information Filtering.

• With Ronny Kohavi, I co-organized a panel entitled Integrating Data Mining into Vertical Solutions: Problems and Challenges at KDD-99.

• I organized the ICML/ AAAI-98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization with Mark Craven, Thorsten Joachims, and Andrew McCallum. To see what was included in the workshop, you can still obtain the workshop program (including the list of accepted papers). The workshop proceedings are now available as a technical report from AAAI.

• In the days of yore I was a Resident Fellow at Naranja House in Lagunita Court for four years.

• More teaching! Some of the other classes that I may teach from time to time include:
  • CS106A: Programming Methodology
  • CS106B: Programming Abstractions
  • CS106X: Programming Methodology and Abstractions (Accelerated)
  • CS109: Introduction to Probability for Computer Scientists
  • CS121: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  • CS181: Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy