Chris Harrison (computer scientist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Chris Harrison (computer scientist)

Date of Birth: 21-May-1984

Place of Birth: London Borough of Enfield, England, United Kingdom

Profession: computer scientist

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Chris Harrison is a British-born, American computer scientist and entrepreneur, working in the fields of human-computer interaction, machine learning and sensor-driven interactive systems.
He is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the Future Interfaces Group within the Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
He has previously conducted research at AT&T Labs, Microsoft Research, IBM Research and Disney Research.
He is also the CTO and co-founder of Qeexo, a machine learning and interaction technology startup. Harrison has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and his work appears in more than 40 books.
For his contributions in human-computer interaction, Harrison was named a top 35 innovator under 35 by MIT Technology Review (2012), a top 30 scientist under 30 by Forbes (2012), one of six innovators to watch by Smithsonian (2013), and a top Young Scientist by the World Economic Forum (2014).
Over the course of his career, Harrison has been awarded fellowships by the Packard Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Google, Qualcomm and Microsoft Research.
He currently holds the A.
Nico Habermann Chair in Computer Science.
More recently, NYU, Harrison's undergraduate alma mater named him as their 2014 Distinguished Young Alumnus, and the lab also won a Fast Company Innovation by Design Award for their work on EM-Sense.