Bio
Gregory D. Abowd is a Distinguished and Regents’ professor for the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests concern how the advanced information technologies of ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") impact our everyday lives when they are seamlessly integrated into our living spaces. Abowd's work has involved schools (Classroom 2000) and homes (The Aware Home), with a recent focus on health, particularly autism. Abowd received a bachelor’s in honors mathematics from the University of Notre Dame. He then attended the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a master’s and doctorate in computation.
He has graduated 23 doctoral students who have gone on to a variety of successful careers in academia and industry. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a member of the CHI Academy and recipient of the SIGCHI Social Impact Award and ACM Eugene Lawler Humanitarian Award. Abowd is also the founding president of the Atlanta Autism Consortium, a non-profit dedicated to enhancing communication and understanding across the varied stakeholder communities connected to autism. Abowd serves as the associate director for Consumer-Facing Privacy for Georgia Tech’s Institute for Information Security & Privacy. He’s also affiliated with the GVU Center and Institute for People and Technology. Further information about his research group can be found at http://ubicomp.cc.gatech.edu/
