Jonathan Appavoo

Associate Professor, Computer Science, College of Arts & Sciences

Jonathan Appavoo was an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow from Fall 2011 to Spring 2014 and is currently a Faculty Affiliate of the CRI Lab at the Hariri Institute. He joined the Department of Computer Science in 2009. After receiving his PhD at the University of Toronto, he worked at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory. His current research work focuses in two major areas: architectures for scalable, elastic systems that enable large-scale, on-demand computing; and computer systems that can combine traditional computing with the kinds of statistical inference capabilities used by the human brain.