Oracle for Research—Previous Year Recipients
Meet the fellows
Thomas Ploetz is a computer scientist with expertise and almost 15 years of experience in pattern recognition and machine learning research. He obtained his PhD from Bielefeld University, Germany.
Jon Tamir is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and a recipient of the Jack Kilby/Texas Instruments Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Computer Engineering.
Marc Riedel is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He obtained his PhD from Caltech and his BEng from McGill University, Canada.
Sofia Oliveira is a senior research associate at the University of Bristol, School of Chemistry. She obtained her PhD at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Igor Vorobyov is an assistant professor at the University of California Davis, School of Medicine, Departments of Physiology and Membrane Biology. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry at University of Louisville.
Ishan Barman is an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and with a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. He obtained his PhD in Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Saransh Arora is a doctoral student working with Barman Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department, Johns Hopkins University on the applications of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) in diagnostics and biopharmaceutical contamination detection.
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