Learn about the 50 faculty from the four sponsoring schools, plus additional HCI-active faculty. Each faculty can advise MS-HCI projects in areas related to their research interests.
Our faculty are well-recognized in their fields of endeavor and include members of the CHI Academy and the National Academy of Engineering, as well as ACM, HFES, and IEEE Fellows, technical and lifetime achievement award winners, journal editors, and conference chairs.
| Name | Title | Academic Unit | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gregory Abowd | Distinguished Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Ubiquitous/everyday computing |
| Rosa Arriaga | Senior Research Scientist | School of Interactive Computing | HCI for chronic care management (e.g., asthma, diabetes), using crowd sourcing for health information; psychological theories and methods to address fundamental topics in HCI |
| Rahul Basole | Associate Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Computational enterprise science, information visualization, and strategic decision support |
| Ian Bogost | Director of Graduate Studies & Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Videogame criticism, videogame rhetoric, and visualization, including game design and educational, persuasive, and political speech in games |
| Jay Bolter | Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Augmented Reality design, media theory |
| Mark Braunstein | Professor of the Practice | School of Interactive Computing | Health information technology |
| Amy Bruckman | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Online communities and education |
| Jim Budd | Chair & Professor | School of Industrial Design | Human-centered, interactive product design; wearables |
| Richard Catrambone | Professor | School of Psychology | Instructional design, problem solving, use of task analysis to identify what learners and trainees need to know and do, computer-based (multimedia) instructional environments, animations and embodied conversational agents (ECAs) |
| Polo Chau | Assistant Professor | School of Computational Science and Engineering | Data visualization, data mining, (explainable) machine learning, scalable interactive tools for big data |
| Christina Choi | Assistant Professor | School of Industrial Design | New Product Innovation, Assistive Technology, Universal Design, Human Factors and Ergonomics, User Needs/Usability, Applications of Virtual Reality in the Design Process, Wearable devices/Medical devices, Marketing Management |
| Russ Clark | Senior Research Scientist | School of Computer Science | Mobility and convergence, network management |
| Munmun De Choudhury | Assistant Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Computational social science, social media analytics and modeling, social computing, health, wellbeing |
| Carl DiSalvo | Assistant Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Critical design, participatory design, the construction of publics, imaging the city, community robotics |
| Ellen Do | Professor (joint appt. with Interactive Computing) | School of Industrial Design | Intelligent Systems and Objects, Design Computing and Cognition, Physical and Ubiquitous Computing, Intuitive Design Interfaces, Sketch Understanding, Diagram Indexing and Retrieval, Computationally Enhanced Construction Kits and Toys, Architectural Robotics, Ambient Intelligence and Smart Living Technologies |
| Frank Durso | Professor | School of Psychology | Engineering psychology, cognitive ergonomics |
| Charles Eastman | Professor (joint appt. with Interactive Computing) | School of Architecture | Computer-aided design, solids modeling and engineering databases, and design theory |
| Keith Edwards | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Human-centered computing, information security, social computing, technology support for non-profits and NGOs |
| Alex Endert | Assistant Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Visual analytics, information visualization |
| Irfan Essa | Associate Dean for Off-Campus and Special Initiatives & Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Perception, Robotics and Computer Animation, Artificial Intelligence |
| Karen Feigh | Assistant Professor | School of Aerospace Engineering | Decision Support Systems, especially in aviation and accounting for human limitations; Computational Cognitive Modeling for Engineering Design, especially predictive cognitive modeling; Mission control and UAV and MAV ground control systems |
| Jim Foley | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Information visualization, educational technology |
| Jason Freeman | Professor | School of Music | Computer vision, real-time music notation, and networked music |
| Katherine Fu | Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering | School of Mechanical Engineering | Design cognition, design by analogy, design intuition, expertise in design, computational support for design, design ethics, design theory and methodology |
| Ashok Goel | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computational design, computational creativity, modeling human creativity in practical tasks |
| Beki Grinter | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Relationships between human action, interaction, and computing; computer-supported cooperative work, sociology, software engineering and ubiquitous computing |
| Mark Guzdial | Professor | Computer science education, educational computing, software-realized scaffolding, collaborative multimedia, construction and design environments for students, constructionism, collaboration support, log file analysis and visualization, computational science (computer modeling, simulation, and visualization) for students | |
| Melody Moore Jackson | Associate Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Biometric control interfaces, brain-computer interfaces, user interface reengineering, software engineering education |
| Nassim Jafarinaimi | Assistant Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Civic and Participatory Media, Design Ethics and Politics (Values and Design), Information Design and Visualization, Participatory and Co-design Methods |
| Lauren Klein | Assistant Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Digital humanities, data visualization, media studies, food studies |
| Chris LeDantec | Assistant Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Integrating theoretical, empirical, and design-based investigations of community technologies; computer-supported cooperative work, social computing, urban computing, and values in design |
| Wayne Li | Professor of the Practice | School of Industrial Design | UI/UX, especially at the the hardware/software interface in transportation, housewares, electronics and all things green Ethnography & Data Analytics: Information design for complex databases & the human contexts that drive them. Advancing multi-disciplinary education in engineering and ID through connected platforms and shared physical and virtual spaces |
| Karen Liu | Associate Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Computer graphics and animation, including physics-based animation, character animation, numerical methods, robotics and computational biomechanics |
| Yanni Loukissas | Assistant Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Data Visualization, Social Studies of Computing, Urban Computing, Critical Design, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work |
| Blair MacIntyre | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Design and implementation of augmented reality environments, UI software architectures for AR and 3DUIs, games, AR systems. |
| Brian Magerko | Assistant Professor (joint appt. with Interactive Computing) | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Computational creativity, interactive narrative, educational media, and AI-based digital performance |
| Janet Murray | Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Interactive narrative and eTV, interactive gaming, encyclopedic media |
| Beth Mynatt | Executive Director of IPaT & Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Supporting informal collaboration and awareness in office environments, enabling creative work and visual communication, augmenting social processes for managing personal information, ubiquitous computing, assistive technologies |
| Michael Nitsche | Assistant Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Interaction in mixed media spaces, machinima, games and film, and digital performance |
| Colin Potts | Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education & Associate Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Requirements engineering, design rationale and argumentation, user-centered design, and personal privacy |
| Amy Pritchett | Associate Professor | School of Aerospace Engineering | Cognitive engineering methods for designing technologies and work processes to support cognitive behaviors; Applications of cognitive engineering to aerospace engineering (including cockpit, air traffic control, and UAV operations), to educational technology, and to design tools |
| Mark Riedl | Associate Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Artificial intelligence, storytelling, and entertainment computing |
| Jon Sanford | Director of CATEA & Professor | School of Industrial Design | Assistive Technologies and Universal Design |
| Stephen Sprigle | Professor (joint appt. with Applied Physiology) | School of Industrial Design | Assistive and rehabilitation technologies; human-centered design |
| Thad Starner | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Wearable computing, contextual computing, ubiquitous computing, artificial intelligence |
| John Stasko | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Information visualization, visual analytics, human-computer interaction |
| Bruce Walker | Associate Professor (joint appt. with Interactive Computing) | School of Psychology | Sonification, auditory interfaces, user-centered design |
| May D. Wang | Associate Professor | Department of Biomedical Engineering | Biomedical and Health Informatics, Molecular Imaging, Mobile Health |
| Kari Watkins | Assistant Professor | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Transit traveler information systems, applications of Value Sensitive Design in transportation information |
| Gil Weinberg | Professor (adjunct appt. with Interactive Computing) | School of Music | New instruments for musical expression, musical networks, machine and robotic musicianship, sonification, and music education |
| Lauren Wilcox | Assistant Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Human-Centered Computing, Health Informatics, Health Communication |
| Ellen Zegura | Professor | School of Computer Science | Human-centered computing, humanitarian computing, mobile wireless networking |
