Mehran Sahami is an Professor and the Associate Chair for Education in the Computer Science department at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, Stanford, CA, USA. He earned his BS and PhD from Stanford University under Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Her general research area is artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences...

. Prior to teaching, Sahami was a Senior Research Scientist at Google

Google

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 as well as a Senior Engineering Manager at Epiphany, Inc.

Epiphany, Inc.

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Sahami teaches the introductory computer science sequence at Stanford. He led Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

's Computer Science

Computer science

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 curriculum redesign from a large core to a smaller core with specialization tracks . Some of his lectures are made available on YouTube

YouTube

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and iTunesU .