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Deb Roy

Deb Roy is a tenured member of the MIT faculty and directs the Cognitive Machines group at the MIT Media Lab. Roy is currently on leave from MIT and serves as CEO of Bluefin Labs, a venture-backed technology company that he cofounded in 2008. A native of Canada, Roy received his bachelor of computer engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1992 and his PhD in cognitive science from MIT in 1999.

Deb Roy is a tenured professor at MIT and directs the Cognitive Machines group at the MIT Media Lab. Roy is currently on leave from MIT and serves as CEO of Bluefin Labs, a venture-backed technology company that he cofounded in 2008. A native of Canada, Roy received his bachelor of computer engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1992 and his PhD in cognitive science from MIT in 1999.

See Deb Roy talk at TED about his MIT research and the ideas that led to Bluefin Labs, a Social TV Solutions company.

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