Corey E. Baker

Biography

Corey E. Baker is an Assistant Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering and the School of Advanced Computing at the University of Southern California (USC). Baker is a former Application and Framework Engineer in Health and Research Products at Apple Inc where he worked on medical and research frameworks such as CareKit and ResearchKit. Before joining USC, Corey was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky (UK). In 2019, Baker received the UK Inclusive Excellence Award for his work in creating a graduate campus visit program and diversifying Computer Science and Engineering at the doctoral level. Corey's work has been highlighted by NBC News and Spectrum News.

Baker received a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University (SJSU), a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida (UF) under the supervision of Professor Janise McNair. After completion of his graduate studies, Baker was a University of California Presidents Postdoctoral Fellow in the Qualcomm Institute at the University of California San Diego under the mentorship of Tara Javidi and Ramesh Rao. Baker has also served as the Travel Grants Chair for ACM CoNext 2024 and ACM HotMobile 2020, and participated on the TPC's of numerous IEEE conferences.