Steve Cousins

Current

• CEO at Willow Garage, Inc

Past

• Senior Manager at IBM Research
• Lab Manager at Palo Alto Research Center
• Member of Research Staff at Xerox PARC

• Research Associate at Interval Research
• Researcher at Medical Informatics Laboratory, Washington University School of Medicine

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Education

• Stanford University
• Washington University

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Steve Cousins’s Summary

Steve Cousins’s Specialties:

Human Computer Interaction
Research Management
Advanced Development
Personal Robots
Autonomous Devices
Consumer Products Industry

Steve Cousins’s Experience

• CEO

  Willow Garage, Inc

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Willow Garage is a research institution dedicated to building prototypes of autonomous devices. We are developing an autonomous car, a boat that can sail autonomously around the world, and we are working with Stanford on a Personal Robot Platform.

• Senior Manager

  IBM Research

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2003 — April 2007 (3 years 6 months)

  Led one of the top Human-Computer Interaction Research groups in the world at the Almaden Research Center. Developed connections to product groups within IBM, and was the liaison to the Consumer Products Industry team in IBM for all of IBM Research.

• Lab Manager

  Palo Alto Research Center

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2003 (4 years)

• Member of Research Staff

  Xerox PARC

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years)

• Research Associate

  Interval Research

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1993 — 1996 (3 years)

  Worked on clustering and a multi-media browser (early DVR prototype) part time during my PhD program.

• Researcher

  Medical Informatics Laboratory, Washington University School of Medicine

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 1988 — August 1992 (4 years 2 months)

Steve Cousins’s Education

• Stanford University

  PhD, Computer Science, September 1992 — August 1997

• Washington University

  BS, MS, Computer Science, September 1982 — December 1987

Additional Information

Steve Cousins’s Interests:

New technology Research methodology Little league baseball

Steve Cousins’s Groups:

ACM
IEEE Computer Society

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