The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Recently Listed Mentors interested in:
Social Computing / Social Informatics

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• Jennifer Rode at Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)
  Keywords: Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Ethnography, Theory, Values, Gender, Homes, Privacy, Security, User Experience, Participatory Design, Children, Usability Evauation 27May, 2010
• Meichun Hsu at Hewlett Packard Labs (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: data-intensive analytics, data mining, machine learning, data-parallel computing, parallel data management 23May, 2010
• Geraldine Gay at http://www.cornell.edu (Ithaca, NY)
  Keywords: hci, social computing, social networks, social media, social influence, mobile computing, education, social psychology, design, emotional contagion, visualization 23May, 2010
• Muthu Muthukrishnan at Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ)
  Keywords: Algorithms, Mechanism Design and Game Theory, Internet Ads, Streaming. Databases. Economics. 22May, 2010
• Lorrie Cranor at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: privacy, security, usability, Internet policy, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, human factors, public policy 22May, 2010
• Mark Ackerman at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)
  Keywords: social computing, social search, question-answering, expertise finding, social network analysis, ethnography, collaborative systems 22May, 2010
• Prasenjit Mitra at The Pennsylvania State University (State College, PA)
  Keywords: information extraction, information integration, information visualization 21May, 2010
• Deborah McGuinness at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
  Keywords: Semantic Web, Explanation, Web Science, eScience, e-Science, Explanation, Trust, ontologies, knowledge representation and reasoning, 21May, 2010
• Chen-Nee Chuah at University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
  Keywords: Internet measurement and analysis, network management & operation research, online social networks 21May, 2010
• Srinivasan Parthasarathy at Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)
  Keywords: Data Mining, Network Science, Databases, High Performance Computing, Bioinformatics 20May, 2010
• Ken Goldberg at UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
  Keywords: Robotics. Algorithmic Automation. Collaborative Filtering and Decision Making. Networked Robots and Cameras. Algorithms for Feeding, Fixturing, Grasping, and Assembly. Automation Science and Engineering. 20May, 2010
• Vasant Honavar at Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa)
  Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Description Logics, Semantic Web, Ontologies, Knowledge Representation, Probabilistic Models, Bioinformatics, Computational biology, Data Mining, Service Composition, e-science, Systems Biology 20May, 2010
• Mirsad Hadzikadic at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte. NC)
  Keywords: fundamental properties of complex adaptive systems; resilience/sustainability; threshold effects; relationship between energy, information, and entropy; general tool for designing complex systems; interdisciplinary collaboration 19May, 2010
• 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 18May, 2010
• Dan Suthers at University of Hawaii, Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences, Lab for Interactive Learning Technologies (Honolulu, HI)
  Keywords: computer supported collaborative learning, social informatics, representational affordances 18May, 2010
• Tina Eliassi-Rad at Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science (Piscataway, NJ)
  Keywords: Mining social networks and graph data; mining dynamic and evolving data; mining relational, spatial, and temporal data; scalable statistical methods and learning algorithms; statistical relational learning; network science. 17May, 2010
• David Redmiles at University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)
  Keywords: Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Software Engineering, Collaborative Software Development, Distributed Teams, Virtual Worlds, Trust, Awareness, Reflection, Visualization, Design, Meta-Design, Design Environments 17May, 2010
• Romit Roy Choudhury at Duke University (Durham, NC)
  Keywords: Wireless Networking, Protocol Design, Software Radios, Successive Interference Cancellation, PHY-aware MAC protocols, IEEE 802.11, Mobile Social Computing, Phone Localization, Energy-awareness, Ambience Sensing 16May, 2010
• Laura Dabbish at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Changing nature of work, human attention, productivity, awareness, interruption, knowledge work, distributed collaboration, computer-mediated communication, computer-supported cooperative work 14May, 2010
• John Chuang at University of Californa, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
  Keywords: economics of computer networks, economics of information security, p2p, incentive-centered design, economics, public policy, ICTD 14May, 2010
• James Landay at University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
  Keywords: HCI, Ubiquitous Computing, Cross Cultural Design, Green Technology, Health and Wellness, Language Learning, Persuasive Design, User Interface Design Tools, Sketch-based User Interfaces, Automated Usability Evaluation, End-User Programming 14May, 2010
• Leysia Palen at University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, Colorado)
  Keywords: Crisis informatics, disaster, emergency; CMC, CSCW, HCI, software engineering; social computing; mass collaboration, information integration; data mining, (internet) ethnography, information retrieval & extraction, natural language processing 13May, 2010
• Scott Robertson at Hawaii Computer-Human Interaction Lab (HICHI) (Honolulu, Hawaii)
  Keywords: Human-computer interaction, social computing, community informatics, digital government 11May, 2010
• John Stasko at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: Information visualization, visual analytics, investigative analysis, sense-making, human-computer interaction, interface design 11May, 2010
• Azer Bestavros at Boston University, Computer Science Department (Boston, MA)
  Keywords: Cloud Computing, Content Distribution Networks, Peer-to-peer Systems, Real-Time Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems, Network Science, Mechanism Design for Distributed Systems and Applications, Application of Formal Methods to Networked Systems. 10May, 2010
• Jeffrey Bigham at University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
  Keywords: access technology, web accessibility, human computer interaction, human computation, web automation & customization, web engineering 10May, 2010
• David Jensen at University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA)
  Keywords: Machine learning, knowledge discovery, data mining, relational learning, causal discovery, social network analysis, computational social science 9May, 2010
• Ronald Metoyer at Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
  Keywords: information visualization, human computer interaction, exercise prescription, computer animation 9May, 2010
• Mohan Sridharan at Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas)
  Keywords: Autonomous robotics, Probabilistic decision-making, Computer vision, Stochastic estimation, Human-robot interaction 7May, 2010
• Andreas Savvides at Yale University (New Haven, CT)
  Keywords: wireless sensor networks, sensor node localization, energy management, human sensing, behavior interpretation and analysis using distributed wireless sensors 6May, 2010
• Richard Furuta at Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)
  Keywords: Digital libraries, human computer interaction, human-centered computing, digital humanities. 5May, 2010
• Jamie Callan at The Heinz College iLab at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: information retrieval, social media, text mining, machine learning 5May, 2010
• Ben Bederson at University of Maryland, Human-Computer Interaction Lab (College Park, MD)
  Keywords: human computation, computing education 5May, 2010
• Bilge Mutlu at University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)
  Keywords: Human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, embodied conversational agents, activity modeling, modeling of social behavior, speech and nonverbal behavior generation in robots and agents, educational and therapeutic use of robots and agents 3May, 2010
• 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, Web Mining, Web Analytics 2May, 2010
• Robert Kraut at Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Online communities, Virtual organizations, Social impact of computing, social computing, social media, technology-mediated social participation, HCI, CSCW, Technology and small groups, health support groups 2May, 2010
• Yu Zhang (and Colleagues) at Trinity University (San Antonio, TX)
  Keywords: Liberal arts teaching, Undergraduate research 2May, 2010
• Larry Hodges at Clemson University (Clemson, SC)
  Keywords: Human-Virtual Human Interaction, 3D HCI, Avatars, Interface Agents, Computer-based Training, Virtual Environments, Social Psychology, Clinical Instruction 1May, 2010
• Kar-Han Tan at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: Immersive Remote Collaboration, Computer Vision and Graphics, Computational Photography and Video 30April, 2010
• Gerome Miklau at University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA)
  Keywords: Databases, privacy, anonymity, social networks, security 30April, 2010
• Julie Kientz at University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
  Keywords: human-computer interaction, health, education, computer supported cooperative work, ubiquitous computing, assistive technology, persuasive technology 30April, 2010
• Darren Gergle at CollaboLab: The Collaborative Technology Laboratory, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
  Keywords: CSCW, HCI, collaboration, social computing, shared visual space, multimodal, dialogue, conversation, multilingual, semantic relatedness 30April, 2010
• Loren Terveen at University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
  Keywords: social computing, geographically-based online communities, mobile computing, recommender systems, technology-mediated social participation, intelligent user interfaces 30April, 2010
• John Riedl at GroupLens Research, University of Minnesota, Computer Science (Minneapolis, MN)
  Keywords: social computing, wikipedia, tagging, technology mediated social participation, social production communities 29April, 2010
• Paul Resnick at University of Michigan School of Information (Ann Arbor, MI)
  Keywords: social computing, social media, recommender systems, reputation systems, online communities, technology-mediated social participation, HCI, CSCW, selective exposure, online deliberation 29April, 2010
• Sonia Chernova at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) (Worcester, MA)
  Keywords: robot learning, adjustable autonomy, human-robot interaction, learning from demonstration, autonomous robots, social robotics, humanoid robots 29April, 2010
• Jenn Wortman Vaughan at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: machine learning, learning theory, economics, social networks, peer production, prediction markets, expert learning, adversarial learning, theory 29April, 2010
• Cristopher Moore at University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)
  Keywords: quantum computation, phase transitions, random structures, social networks 28April, 2010
• Jason Hong at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: Usable Privacy and Security, Mobile Social Computing, Location-Based Services, Ubiquitous Computing 28April, 2010
• Mor Naaman at Rutgers School of Communication and Information (New Brunswick, NJ)
  Keywords: Social information systems, social media, social awareness systems, human-centered multimedia, mobile, CSCW, HCI 28April, 2010