Dr. Eric Paulos

Biography

Eric Paulos is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also serves as the director of the Master of Design (MDes) program and the CITRIS Invention Lab. He co-directs the Swarm Lab and is affiliated with the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM). Prior to his current position, he held the Cooper-Siegel Associate Professor Chair at Carnegie Mellon University in the School of Computer Science, where he was part of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and held courtesy appointments in the Robotics Institute and the Entertainment Technology Center. His research interests include human-computer interaction, urban computing, sustainability, robotics, and social telepresence. Paulos has founded and directed the Living Environments Lab at CMU and the Urban Atmospheres research group at Intel Research in Berkeley, where he focused on innovative methods to explore urban life and emerging technologies. He is recognized as a leading figure in urban computing, a term he coined in 2004, and has actively contributed to numerous academic journals and conferences in his field. Paulos received his PhD from UC Berkeley, where he was instrumental in developing internet tele-operated robots and related devices. His work has been exhibited in prestigious venues such as the Whitney Museum, Ars Electronica, and SFMOMA.

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