Shawn Blanton
Associate Department Head for Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Joseph F. and Nancy Keithley Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Bio
Shawn Blanton is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1995 he received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests include various aspects of integrated system test, testable design, and test methodology development. He has consulted for various
He received a Career Award from the National Science Foundation in 1997, and IBM Faculty Partnership Awards in 2005 and 2006. He has given over one-hundred talks at many universities and companies that include Stanford, Yale, Texas A&M, Duke, Purdue, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, IBM, Delphi, Hewlett Packard,
Dr. Blanton is also significantly involved in the recruitment of minority candidates for graduate school. Most of his activities center on direct recruitment at the annual convention of the National Society Black Engineers. In 2006, he spearheaded the university’s efforts (CMU@NSBE) for the 2006 NSBE convention held here in Pittsburgh. In 2006, Blanton was awarded an Emerald Award for outstanding leadership in recruiting and mentoring minorities for advanced degrees in science and technology.
Education
Ph.D., 1995
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
M.S., 1989
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Arizona
B.S., 1987
Engineering
Calvin College
Research
Keywords
- Coding and signal processing for data storage
- Biometrics
- Pattern recognition
- Computer vision
- Data mining
- Data storage systems
- Machine learning