Erik Sudderth grew up in Cupertino, California, graduating from Monta Vista High School in 1995. He then spent four years in sunny La Jolla at the University of California, San Diego, where he received a Bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering. His undergraduate research was supervised by Profs. Ramesh Jain and Ken Kreutz-Delgado. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he later received the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His thesis research was jointly advised by Prof. Alan Willsky in the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS), and Prof. William Freeman in the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). This work was partially funded by a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (1999), and an Intel Foundation Doctoral Fellowship (2004).
Since July of 2009, Erik has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. Before joining Brown, he spent three pleasant years as a postdoctoral scholar in the EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Profs. Michael Jordan and Stuart Russell. In January of 2008, he was named one of IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine's "Ten to Watch" in Artificial Intelligence.
