Sameer Pai is a Patent Agent in Ropes & Gray's Intellectual Property Group. He joined the firm in 2008.
Professional Experience
Prior to joining Ropes and Gray, Sameer attended Cornell University, where he received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering while conducting research on wireless sensor networks and public policy concerning information privacy. During this time, Sameer was an exchange scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked in the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the National Science Foundation Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies (TRUST), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center.
Sameer also was a Researcher and Technical Consultant for the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Law School. At the Samuelson Clinic, he studied the confluence of social, legal, technical and design issues in the public space deployment of wireless sensor networking technology. Sameer helped advise the City of San Francisco on the effective use of public video surveillance with due consideration of privacy. He also conducted on-site audits of public video surveillance programs in some of the nation’s largest cities. Prior to these roles, Sameer was employed as a Software Engineer in the Personal Communications Sector at Motorola Inc.
Honors & Awards
- International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) & KPMG Award (2007)
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Education
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PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering (major), Applied Mathematics (minor), and Information Science (minor)), Cornell University, 2008; Cornell Graduate Fellowship; National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship
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MS (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Cornell University, 2008; UC Berkeley Exchange Scholar; UC Berkeley Phi Kappa Sigma Erdelatz Memorial Prize
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BS (Electrical and Computer Engineering), with Highest Honors, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Engineering, 2003; Wells Scholarship; Donald R. Knapp Scholarship; Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellowship; Eta Kappa Nu; Tau Beta Pi
Bar Admissions
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011
Memberships & Affiliations
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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