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Research Interests
Data Curation, Mining, and Visualization (GeoSpatial, Socio-Economic, Scientific, Information, Uncertainty, Multimodal)
Computer Vision (Lidar Data, Camera, Omnidirectional Sensors)
Technology, Innovation, Pedagogy, and Entrepreneurship

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Affiliations
Member, Governing Council, Center For Collaborative Research for an Equitable California(CCREC), 2011--continuing
Member, Steering Committee, Center for Integrated Spatial Research(CISR), 2009--continuing
Member, Governing Committee, UC Atlas of Global Inequality, 2006--continuing
Member, Advisory Board, Knowledgecontext, Teaching Critical Thinking about Technology, 2005--continuing
Researcher, Centre for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society(CITRIS), 2001--continuing

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Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1992
M.A.,   Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 1984
M.Sc.,  Mathematics (with Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1976

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Honors & Awards
Excellence in Teaching Award, University of California Santa Cruz, Graduating Class of 1996.
Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California Berkeley, Math Teaching Assistant, 1984
President's Gold Medal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1976
All India JEE 3^rd Position, Indian Institute of Technology, 1971

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Teaching
CMPS 10     : An Innovative Introduction to Computer Science
CMPS 80D : The Art of Data Visualization
CMPS 80J: Technology Targeted for Social Issues
CMPS 80S    : From Software Innovation to Social Enterpreneurship
CMPS 160    : An Introduction to Computer Graphics
CMPS 290B : Advanced Data Visualization

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