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Kentaro Toyama is the W.K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan's School of Information and a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. He is the author of 'Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from Technology.' Previously, Toyama was a researcher at UC Berkeley and served as the assistant managing director at Microsoft Research India, which he co-founded in 2005. He started the Technology for Emerging Markets research group, conducting interdisciplinary research on how the world's poorer communities interact with electronic technology and inventing new ways for technology to support socio-economic development. The award-winning group is known for its projects such as MultiPoint, Text-Free User Interfaces, and Digital Green. Toyama co-founded the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) to provide a global platform for rigorous academic research in the field. He has also served as an editor-in-chief of the journal 'Information Technologies and International Development.' Before his time in India, Toyama conducted computer vision and multimedia research at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA, and taught mathematics at Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science