Rate Professor Kentaro Toyama

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D., Computer Science, Yale University, 1998; B.S., Physics, Harvard University, 1991.

Research Interests: Technology for social impact, digital inclusion, and human-computer interaction.

Appointments: W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan School of Information, 2010–present.

Awards: MIT Technology Review TR35, 2005; ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award, 2018.

Publications:

• Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology (PublicAffairs, 2015)
• Technology and poverty alleviation (Communications of the ACM, 2017)

Additional Contributions: Co-founder, Microsoft Research India; editorial board, Information Technologies & International Development.