Bill Thies

Bill Thies is an American computer scientist and senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research India and the recipient of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship.[1]

Career

He started with Microsoft Research India in 2008 and is a senior principal researcher there. His research and analysis has appeared in many print publications including ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) and others.[2]

As a computer scientist, his work at the Microsoft Research unit in Bangalore, India focuses on how to use technology to aid global development.[3] He has helped to create the 99DOTS initiative[4], a model for delivering tuberculosis medicine to those in India. He also helped to create and implement CGNet Swara[5] in collaboration with Indian journalists, to enable isolated tribal communities to have a way to communicate needs with government officials. [1]

Education

Thies graduated from the State College Area High School in 1997 and moved to Massachusetts to continue his studies.[6] He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning two Bachelors degrees (in Computer Science and Maths) in 2001, a Masters degree in 2002, and a Ph.D. in 2009. His Ph.D. was in computer science and engineering.[3]

Recognition

In 2009, Thies received the John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award.[7] He has received the CHI Best Paper Award and, In 2016, he was included as one of the MacArthur Fellowship Grant recipients. [8]

References
  1. Mathur, Nandita (2016-09-23). "Microsoft Research India's Bill Thies awarded prestigious MacArthur Fellowship". Livemint. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  2. "Bill Thies - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  3. "Microsoft researcher Bill Thies wins MacArthur grant". The Seattle Times. 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  4. "Bill Thies awarded 2016 MacArthur Fellowship | MIT EECS". www.eecs.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  5. "Pennsylvania man named a 2016 MacArthur 'genius' grant winner". pennlive. 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  6. Falce, Lori (May 21, 2020). "Real genius: State High grad nets MacArthur Fellowship". Centre Daily.
  7. "bnid.org". www.bnid.org. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  8. "Subhash Khot and Bill Thies named 2016 MacArthur Fellows". www.acm.org. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
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