Desney Tan is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research is the research division of Microsoft created in 1991 for developing various computer science ideas and integrating them into Microsoft products. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R. Hoare, Butler Lampson, and Charles P...

 and the manager of the Computation User Experiences (CUE) group. Tan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 at Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

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 under the advisorship of Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch

Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch was an American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....

. He was honored as one of MIT Technology Review

Technology Review

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's 2007 Young Innovators Under 35 (TR35

TR35

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) in 2007. He was also named one of SciFi Channel's Young Visionaries at TED

TED (conference)

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 2009, as well as Forbes' Revolutionaries: Radical Thinkers and their World-Changing Ideas for his work on Whole Body Computing. He was the technical program chair of the prestigious ACM SIGCHI Conference in 2008 and will be general chair in 2011. His research interests primarily focus on Human-Computer Interaction and Physiological Computing.

External links

• http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?TRID=629
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/desney/
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/desney/publications.htm
• http://dub.washington.edu/people/desney
• http://visionsfortomorrow.net/young_visionaries.php
• http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/22/desney-tan-interfaces-technology-revolutionaries-tan.html