TEST Top-down Computing Systems for Bottom-up Social Good

Dr. Barath Raghavan, soon joining the computer science faculty at USC, will discuss rural network access, agroecological development and air pollution mitigation as it relates to top-down planning and bottom-up instantiations. He will also discuss his developments for increasing internet access in rural areas, increasing sustainability in food production, and future work on mitigating air pollution. 

Dr. Raghavan is a senior researcher at the International Computer Science Institute and currently leads the engineering team at Nefeli Networks, both in Berkeley, CA.