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Panel Talk India - A Knowledge Power: Opportunities and ChallengesDr. Kentaro ToyamaDecember 14, 2008, 11.30AM - 1PM
About the Speaker
Dr. Kentaro Toyama is co-founder and assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India, in Bangalore, where he supports the lab's daily operation and contributes to strategy and overall management. He also leads the "Technology for Emerging Markets" group, which conducts multidisciplinary research to identify applications of computing and electronic technology for socio-economic development. In 2006, he co-founded the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), as a global platform for rigorous scholarship in this area. Prior to his work in India, Kentaro did research in computer vision, multimedia, and digital graphics in Redmond and taught mathematics at Ashesi University in Ghana. Kentaro graduated with a PhD in computer science from Yale and a bachelors degree in physics from Harvard. |