Mehran Sahami
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Mehran Sahami is an Iranian-American computer scientist, engineer, and professor. He is the James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor in the School of Engineering, and Professor (Teaching) and Chair of the Computer Science department at Stanford University.[1][2] He is also the Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
Education
Sahami earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1992 and PhD in 1999 from Stanford University[3] for research supervised by Daphne Koller.[4]
Career and research
Sahami's research interests are in computer science education,[5][6] machine learning and information retrieval.[1]
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.[7]
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.[8] Some of his lectures are made available on YouTube and iTunesU.[9]
His research interests include computer science education, artificial intelligence, and ethics. He served as co-chair of the ACM/IEEE-CS joint task force on Computer Science Curricula 2013, which created curricular guidelines for college programs in Computer Science at an international level. He has also served as chair of the ACM Education Board, an elected member of the ACM Council, and was appointed by California Governor Jerry Brown to the state's Computer Science Strategic Implementation Plan Advisory Panel.
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.[10]
In 2014, Sahami received the Association for Computing Machinery (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".[11] In 2019, he was elected an ACM Distinguished Member.[12]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sahami, Mehran (1999). Using Machine Learning to Improve Information Access (PDF). stanford.edu (PhD thesis). Stanford University. OCLC 42295094.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Reich, Rob; Sahami, Mehran; Weinstein, Jeremy M.; Cohen, Hilary (2020), "Teaching Computer Ethics", Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, ACM, pp. 296–302, doi:10.1145/3328778.3366951, ISBN 9781450367936, S2CID 211520552
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sahami, Mehran; Astrachan, Owen; Czajka, Sandy; Decker, Adrienne; Rosato, Jennifer (2022), "Should the AP Computer Science A Exam Switch to Using Python?", Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2, ACM, pp. 1015–1016, doi:10.1145/3478432.3499230, ISBN 9781450390712, S2CID 247026722
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- ^ Mehran Sahami Overview of the New Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum. September 26, 2008
- ^ Stanford School of Engineering Script error: No such module "webarchive". - Stanford Engineering Everywhere. See.stanford.edu. Retrieved on 2011-07-31.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Stanford Professor Sahami to Class of '13: Use your 'superpower' to improve the world". Stanford University. 15 June 2013. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ACM Presidential Award". ACM. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jim Ormond (October 19, 2019). "ACM Recognizes 2019 Distinguished Members for Educational, Engineering and Scientific Contributions to Computing: New Class, Cited for Accomplishments in Diverse Areas of Computing, Reflects ACM's Global Reach". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved January 9, 2026.
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