The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Mentors interested in:
HCI / CSCW

• Irfan ESSA at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: Computational Video, Computational Photography, Activity Recognition, Computational Journalism, Human Behavior Modeling and Analysis, Human Robot Interaction, Sports Visualization, Interacting with and Authoring Video. 14July
• Scott Mainwaring at People and Practices Research, Intel Labs (Beaverton, OR)
  Keywords: financial services innovation; personal meaning; sustainability and consumerism; technosocial infrastructures; ethnography and design 5July
• Edward Large at Center for Complex System & Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL)
  Keywords: music cognition, auditory neuroscience, nonlinear dynamical systems, nonlinear oscillation, neural networks, rhythm perception, pitch perception, tonality, pulse, beat, meter 10June
• Ajita John at Avaya Labs Research (Basking Ridge, New Jersey)
  Keywords: collaborative tagging, rich media, communication dynamics in social networks, community evolution, microbloggiing, search, privacy, awareness 9June
• Robert Pastel at Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI)
  Keywords: HCI, Virtual Environments, Positioning, Navigating, Gesturing 9June
• Aniket Kittur at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: social computing, HCI, peer production, social collaboration, sensemaking, insight, wiki, Wikipedia, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, higher order cognition, categorization, scientific discovery 8June
• Justine Cassell at Northwestern University (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: Embodied Conversational Agents, Natural Language, Dialogue Systems, Graphics, Educational Technology, Autism, Under-represented groups, 8June
• Robert Kraut at Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Online communities, Virtual organizations, Social impact of computing 7June
• Erik Johnston at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
  Keywords: Policy informatics, information visualization, interactive simulations, agent-based modeling, public health, sustainability, crisis management, urban growth 7June
• Nina Bhatti at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, California)
  Keywords: Mobile Systems, media interation, mobile social computing, mobile media, computer vision, interactive media, pervasive computing, mobile consumer applications, usability, mobile HCI 6June
• Kar-Han Tan at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: Immersive Remote Collaboration, Computer Vision and Graphics, Computational Photography and Video 5June
• Georgios Fainekos at NEC Labs / Arizona State University (Princeton, NJ / Tempe, AZ)
  Keywords: Cyber-Physical Systems, formal methods and logic, control theory and hybrid, embedded and real-time systems, robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles 5June
• G. Michael Youngblood at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)
  Keywords: interactive artificial intelligence, games, agents, multi-agent systems, cognitive architectures, visual / graph-based data mining / knowledge discovery, computational geometry, learning, behavioral analysis, MMO games, social games, artificial life 5June
• Aditya Johri at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA)
  Keywords: Virtual Teams, CSCW, Creativity and Technology, Educational Technology (CSCL), Learning Sciences, Knowledge Networks, Engineering Design, Collaboration in Open Source Projects 5June
• Murray Turoff at New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ)
  Keywords: Emergency Management Information Systems, Computer Mediated Communications, Management of Information Systems, Online Learning Systems, Technological Foresight and Assessment, Risk Analysis, Online Delphi Design, Design of Planning Systems 5June
• Ramesh Raskar at MIT Media Lab (Boston, MA)
  Keywords: Computational imaging, Signal processing, Applied optics, Computer graphics and vision, Medical Imaging, Thermal and ultrasound sensing, Computational photography, Hardware electronics, Art, Online photo collections, Visual social computing. 4June
• Quentin Jones at New Jersey Institute of Technology - SmartCampus Lab (Newark New Jersey)
  Keywords: Social Computing, CSCW, HCI, Mobile Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing, Online Communities, Social Recommendation Systems 4June
• Anita Sarma at University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Nebraska, Lincoln)
  Keywords: workspace awareness, interactive exploration of software project, visualization of large scale projects 4June
• Starr Roxanne Hiltz at Collaborative Hypermedia Lab, Information Systems Dept NJIT (Newark NJ)
  Keywords: Virtual teams, social software, emergency response information systems, information systems evaluation methods, online learning 4June
• Yan Qu at College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, Collage Park (Washington, DC)
  Keywords: Sensemaking and learning, Collaborative sensemaking, Human computer interaction, Social computing, Information system design, Information behavior 4June
• Scott McCrickard at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA)
  Keywords: HCI, usability engineering, models and theories for HCI, notification systems 3June
• Michael Bieber at New Jersey Institute of Technology (University Heights, Newark, NJ)
  Keywords: learning systems, decision analysis, DSS, emergency mgmt systems, ubicomp, HCI, social networking, pattern recognition, open source, text mining, search, recommender systems, virtual worlds, digital libraries, collaborative systems, CMC, delphi 2June
• Neil Heffernan at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA)
  Keywords: Intelligent tutoring systems, human computer interaction, Bayesian networks, user modeling, collaborative learning systems, educational games and simulation 1June
• Cheryl Swanier at Fort Valley State University (Fort Valley, GA)
  Keywords: hci, computer science education, visual programming, cscw 1June
• Cheryl Seals at Auburn University (Washington, DC)
  Keywords: HCI, UI design, educational gaming technologies, game design, educational visualization 29May
• Jeremy Pickens at FX Palo Alto Research Lab, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: Information Retrieval (IR), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), (Explicitly) Collaborative Information Seeking, Human-Computer Interaction in Information Retrieval (HCIR), Multimedia Information Retrieval 29May
• Jason Nieh at Columbia University (New York, NY)
  Keywords: software systems, operating systems, virtualization, file and storage systems, cloud computing, mobile computing, thin-client computing, network computing, Web systems, high-performance computing, security, performance evaluation. 29May
• Ying Tat Leung at IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, CA)
  Keywords: business process modeling, business performance modeling, business architecture, organizational informatics, simulation, economics of information technology 29May
• Rachel Bellamy at Software Technology Dept of IBM Research Hawthorne (Westchester, NY)
  Keywords: Psychology of Programming, Cognitive Modeling of Technology Use, Usability Analysis Tools and Methods, Information Foraging Models. 29May
• Yunyao Li at IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, CA)
  Keywords: database, keyword search, semantic search, text analytics, information extraction, unstructured data mining, information retrieval 29May
• David McDonald at University of Washington, Information School (Seattle, WA)
  Keywords: social computing, wikipedia, digital living, home technology, home media, recommendation systems 29May
• Jodi Forlizzi at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: interaction design, design research, HRI, ambient displays, peripheral displays, in-car navigation 29May
• Mark Gross at Computational Design Lab (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)
  Keywords: tangible embedded interaction, design, end-user programming languages, architectural robotics, DIY computing, sketching-in-hardware, pen-based interaction, sketch/diagram recognition, modular robotics, educational technologies, programming 28May
• Ronald Metoyer at Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
  Keywords: information visualization, human computer interaction, exercise prescription, computer animation 28May
• Noshir Contractor at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
  Keywords: social networks, knowledge networks, network recommender systems, web crawling, text mining, statistical modeling of large scale networks, computational modeling of large scale networks, socio-technical design of cyberinfrastructure, petascale apps 28May
• Tiffany Barnes at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Games +Learn?ng Lab (Charlotte, NC)
  Keywords: educational data mining, game design, game development, educational games, serious games, health games, exercise games, artificial intelligence, education, broadening participation in computing, creativity, learning environments, K-12 computing education 28May
• Craig Thompson at University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR)
  Keywords: virtual worlds, Second Life, OpenSim, pervasive computing, RFID, logistics, simulation, healthcare, hospital, mirror world, ontology, workflow, cloud 27May
• Azam Khan at Autodesk Research (Flexible (Boston, San Francisco, Lake Oswego))
  Keywords: sustainability, green building, architecture, urban design, sensor network, simulation, visualization, anatomy, human modeling, biomechanics, human variation, parametric anatomy, ergonomics 27May
• Gary Olson at University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
  Keywords: CSCW, HCI, software engineering, scientific collaboration, virtual teams 27May
• Stephen Hirtle at University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Spatial Information Science, Cognitive Science, Wayfinding, HCI, Visualization, Cognitive Maps, Data Mining, Spatial Cognition, Navigation 27May
• Yaser Sheikh at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Computer Vision, Distributed Sensing, Nonrigid Structure from Motion, 3D reconstruction, Human Detection, Human Tracking, Human Activity Recognition 27May
• Bernardo Huberman at Social Computing Laboratory, HP Labs (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: social computing, economics of attention, cloud services. 27May
• Keith Edwards at Georgia Tech (School of Interactive Computing & GVU Center) (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: human-computer interaction, networking, home networking, end-user network troubleshooting 27May
• Jennifer Mankoff at Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: assistive technology, sustainability 27May
• Elaine Chew at University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: mathematics and computation in music, automated music analysis, music visualization, expressive performance analysis and synthesis, music information retrieval 27May
• Ron Alterovitz at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
  Keywords: motion planning, robotics, medical robotics, optimization, planning under uncertainty, virtual environments, surgical simulation, physically-based simulation, finite element method, tissue modeling, image registration, treatment planning 26May
• Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan at University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: speech, audio, language, gestures, affect, emotion, biomedical, multimodal, speech recognition, translation, synthesis, articulatory models, multimedia, virtual humans, interfaces, speech production 26May
• Rachel Greenstadt at Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)
  Keywords: security, privacy, agents, artificial intelligence, web infections 26May
• Daniel Keefe at University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
  Keywords: scientific visualization, 3D modeling, virtual reality, haptics, tiled displays, 3D user interfaces, pen-based interfaces, design, visual art 26May
• Khai Truong at University of Toronto (Toronto, ON)
  Keywords: Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp), human-computer interaction (hci), assistive technology, context-aware computing, sustainability, privacy, interaction design, ambient displays 26May