Faculty

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.

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Name Title Academic Unit Research Interests
Leila Aflatoony Assistant Professor School of Industrial Design Interaction design, HCI, and UX
Clio Andris Assistant Professor School of Interactive Computing School of Interactive Computing/School of City and Regional Planning GIS/Urban Analytics/Social Networks
Rosa Arriaga Associate Professor 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
Michael Best Professor (joint with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs) School of Interactive Computing ICTD, Computing and Society, Computing and International Affairs
Jay Bolter Professor School of Literature, Media, and Communication Augmented Reality design, media theory
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 Associate Professor School of Computational Science and Engineering Data visualization, data mining, (explainable) machine learning, scalable interactive tools for big data
Russ Clark Senior Research Scientist School of Computer Science Mobility and convergence, network management
Maribeth Coleman Principal Research Scientist, Director IMTC Augmented reality, mobile computing, and HCI
Courtney Crooks GTRI Principal Research Scientist School of Interactive Computing Applied psychoanalytic and socio-cognitive foundational theory; qualitative analysis; mathematical modeling; understanding large group psychological response to politicized and core societal issues including domestic and national security implications.
Munmun De Choudhury Assistant Professor School of Interactive Computing Computational social science, social media analytics and modeling, social computing, health, wellbeing
Betsy DiSalvo Associate Professor School of Interactive Computing Educational technology, cultural values and how those values impact technology use, learning, and production
Carl DiSalvo Associate Professor School of Interactive Computing Critical design, participatory design, the construction of publics, imaging the city, community robotics
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 Associate 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 Emeritus 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 School of Mechanical Engineering Design cognition, design by analogy, design intuition, expertise in design, computational support for design, design ethics, design theory and methodology
Courtney Garvin Lecturer School of Industrial Design Courtney Garvin studied industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design where she received her BFA. She began her career working as a freelance exhibit designer at the Boston Children’s Museum and later as an interactive designer at Ziff-Davis Interactive in Cambridge, MA. In 1999, Courtney received her MFA in graphic design from Yale University. Her thesis on color theory focused on examining the psychological, cultural and personal meanings of color and color’s relationship to language.
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
Melody Moore Jackson Associate Professor School of Interactive Computing Biometric control interfaces, brain-computer interfaces, user interface reengineering, software engineering education
Brian Jones Senior Research Engineer Brian D. Jones is a Senior Research Engineer at IMTC and Director of the Aware Home Research Initiative (AHRI). As Director of the Aware Home Research Initiative, Mr. Jones is working to bring new investment and new technology into the Aware Home facility to provide exciting cutting-edge infrastructure for Georgia Tech faculty and students interested in researching a variety of applications in the home.
David Joyner Executive Director of Online Education & OMSCS School of Interactive Computing Computer science education, online education, educational technology, AI in education
Jennifer Kim Assistant Professor School of Interactive Computing HCI with a focus on health, wellbeing, and inclusion
Neha Kumar Associate Professor (joint with Sam Nunn School of International Affairs) School of Interactive Computing Human-Computer Interaction for Global Development
Chris LeDantec Associate Professor School of Interactive Computing 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
Yanni Loukissas Assistant Professor School of Literature, Media, and Communication Data Visualization, Social Studies of Computing, Urban Computing, Critical Design, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
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
Lisa Marks Assistant Professor School of Industrial Design Lisa Marks is a designer and educator teaching studio courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs at Georgia Tech. Her current research focuses on methods of combining endangered and traditional handcraft with algorithmic modeling in order to produce new modes of production. She has a Master of Industrial Design from Parsons School of Design and worked in New York for clients including Google, Nike, and Swarovski.
Janet Murray Professor School of Literature, Media, and Communication Interactive narrative and eTV, interactive gaming, encyclopedic media
Michael Nitsche Associate Professor School of Literature, Media, and Communication Interaction in mixed media spaces, machinima, games and film, and digital performance
HyunJoo Oh Assistant Professor School of Industrial Design Working at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and design, she studies and builds creative technologies (tools, kits, and methods) that integrate everyday craft materials with computing
Andrea Parker Associate Professor School of Interactive Computing Human-computer interaction, social computing, health equity, social justice, civic computing, public health
Nassim Parvin Associate 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
Thomas Ploetz Associate Professor School of Interactive Computing Computational Behavior Analysis, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, (Applied) Machine Learning, Time Series Analysis
Noah Posner Research Scientist School of Industrial Design Noah Posner is a research scientist with the IMAGINE Lab and lab manager of the Interactive Product Design Lab (IPDL). His focus is on creating interactive experiences that leverage physical interaction. As manager of the IPDL he maintains the space as a research and teaching lab. He leads IPDL internal projects and assists students as they learn to incorporate sensing and interaction into their designs. In addition he teaches physical prototyping in the Human-Computer Interaction program.
Mark Riedl Associate Professor School of Interactive Computing Artificial intelligence, storytelling, and entertainment computing
Jessica Roberts Assistant Professor School of Interactive Computing Learning Sciences and Technology, Human-Centered Computing, HCI, Human-Data Interactions
Agata Rozga Senior Research Scientist School of Interactive Computing Dr. Rozga is a research scientist in the School of Interactive Computing. She is a developmental psychologist with an interest in autism and related developmental conditions. Her current research lies at the interdisciplinary boundary between developmental psychology and computing. She asks questions regarding how the behavior of individuals with autism emerges and transforms over time. To find answers, she applies novel sensing capabilities, and computationally driven measurement and modeling. This work is leading to novel ways of capturing and quantifying complex human behaviors, as well as developing new understandings of these behaviors, both among typically developing individuals and those with autism. The ultimate goal is to make these new measurements and modeling techniques work outside the lab, in real-world environments like the home, schools, and clinics where there is a need for more objective, reliable means of tracking the emergence of autism and its developmental course.
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
Anne Sullivan Assistant Professor School of Literature, Media, and Communication Storytelling in games and craft to support new gameplay methods and voices
Bruce Walker Professor School of Psychology Sonification, auditory interfaces, user-centered design
Kari Watkins Associate 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
Ellen Zegura Fleming Professor School of Computer Science Human-centered computing, humanitarian computing, mobile wireless networking