Gregory Abowd, D.Phil.
Gregory D. Abowd, D.Phil., is Regents’ and Distinguished Professor in the School
of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received the
degrees of M.Sc. and D.Phil. in computation from the University of Oxford. Dr.
Abowd leads a research group interested in human-centered applications of mobile
and ubiquitous computing technologies, with an emphasis on home and health. He
was a leader in establishing the importance of computing technology to address a
variety of challenges linked to autism and has published widely on this topic and
assisted in the development of commercial solutions. He is Fellow of the Association
of Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2009, he was awarded the ACM Eugene Lawler
Humanitarian Award for his research efforts.