Gregory Abowd
| Gregory Dominic Abowd | |
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Gregory Abowd in Sydney, Australia
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| Born |
September 12, 1964 Farmington Hills, MI, USA |
| Residence | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Citizenship |
 United States
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| Nationality | American |
| Fields |
Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Software Engineering, Human-Centered Computing |
| Institutions |
Georgia Tech, GVU Center, Health Systems Institute |
| Alma mater |
University of Oxford, University of Notre Dame |
| Doctoral students | Kurt Stirewalt, Anind Dey, Jennifer Mankoff, Jason Brotherton, Bob Waters, Heather Richter, Khai Truong, Lonnie Harvel, Giovanni Iachello, Kristine Nagel, Gillian Hayes, Jay Summet, Julie Kientz, Shwetak Patel, Mario Romero, Erich Stuntebeck |
| Known for | ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction, software engineering, technology and autism |
| Notable awards | ACM Fellow, CHI Academy, CHI Social Impact Award, NSF CAREER Award |
Gregory Dominic Abowd is a computer scientist best known for his work in ubiquitous computing, software engineering, and technologies for autism. He is the J.Z. Liang Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he joined the faculty in 1994.
Gregory Abowd was born in 1964 and raised in Farmington Hills, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Honors Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame in 1986. He attended the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received his M.Sc. in 1987 and his D.Phil. in 1991, both in the field of Computation.
He was a research associate from 1989 to 1992 at the University of York and a postdoctoral research associate from 1992 to 1994 at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1994, he was appointed to the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he remains today.
Abowd's published work is primarily in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Software Engineering, and Computer Supported Cooperative Work. He is particularly known for his work in ubiquitous computing, where he has made contributions in the areas of automated capture and access, context-aware computing, and smart home technologies. Abowd's research primarily has an applications focus, where he has worked to develop systems for health care, education, the home, and individuals with autism.
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