Gaetano Borriello

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gaetano
Faculty
Computer Science & Engineering, Information School

Gaetano Borriello, Professor, has a BS in EE from the Polytechnic Institute of New York (1979), an MS in EE from Stanford University (1981), and a PhD in CS from the Unversity of California at Berkeley (1988). He was a member of the research staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from 1980-87. He joined the Department in 1988. Gaetano Borriello is known primarily for his work in automatic synthesis of digital circuits, reconfigurable hardware, and embedded systems development tools. He was a founder of Consystant Design Technologies in 1999. From 2000-2003, Borriello was PI for the Portolano Expedition, a DARPA-sponsored investigation on invisible computing. He was on partial leave from 2001 to 2003 to found and direct Intel Research Seattle, a laboratory which has emerged as one of the premiere organizations engaged in ubiquitous computing research. The focus of Borriello's research interests are in location-based systems, sensor-based inferencing, and tagging objects with passive and active tags. Most recently he is focusing on the use of mobile devices for data collection in public health applications in the developing world. Borriello has served as program chair of numerous conferences and workshops. His most recent community activities include being program chair for the 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp02), serving on the editorial board of IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine, contributing to a study, called "Embedded, Everywhere", commissioned by the Computer Science Technology Board of the National Research Council on Networked Systems of Embedded Computers.