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computer science associate professor mehran sahami daphne koller http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=824a47e1-135f-4508-a5aa-866adcae1111 iran 700x525 computer science stanford university spam filter http://see.stanford.edu/see/images/sahami.jpg mehran sahami
 mehran sahami stanford university
mehran sahami

mehran sahami is a professor and the associate chair for education in the computer science department at stanford university .
he earned his bs and phd from stanford university under the supervision of daphne koller .
prior to teaching , sahami was a senior research scientist at google as well as a senior engineering manager at epiphany , inc. .
sahami teaches the introductory computer science sequence at stanford .
he led stanford university 's computer science curriculum redesign from a large core to a smaller core with specialization tracks .
some of his lectures are made available on youtube and itunesu .
