Mehran Sahami is the James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor in the School of Engineering, and Professor (Teaching) and Associate Chair for Education in the Computer Science department at Stanford University. He is also the Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
Sahami earned his BS and PhD from Stanford University under the supervision of Daphne Koller. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Google, Inc. as well as a Senior Engineering Manager at Epiphany, Inc.. Sahami teaches the introductory computer science sequence at Stanford.
In 2014, Sahami received the ACM Presidential Award for "outstanding leadership of, and commitment to, the three-year ACM/IEEE-CS effort to produce CS2013, a comprehensive revision of the curricular guidelines for undergraduate programs in computer science". ^ Mehran Sahami. Robotics.stanford.edu.
He is also the Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Sahami earned his BS and PhD from Stanford University under the supervision of Daphne Koller.
To illustrate his point, Sahami shared an experience from his early days at Google.
Graduating from Stanford turns you into a superhero, Sahami told the students. "Your education is a superpower. It's the power to potentially change the world with your mind."