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Tessa Lau

University/Research Lab: IBM Research -- Almaden
Location: (San Jose, CA)
Personal Research Web Page: http://tlau.org/research

Keywords: end user programming, programming by demonstration, intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, machine learning, collaboration, social networking

Posted on: Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Broad Research Area: AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision, Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, HCI / CSCW, Information Systems / Information Science, Mobile / Ubiquitous / Embedded Computing

Research Interests:

Tessa Lau is a Research Staff Manager at IBM Almaden Research Center, leading a group working on Smarter Web technologies. Dr. Lau’s research integrates techniques from artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction to build systems that enhance human productivity and creativity; areas of interest include end user programming, collaboration, and social software. Most recently, her team has developed and deployed the CoScripter system (http://coscripter.com), a platform for capturing, automating, and sharing tasks people do on the web.

Tessa has served on organizing and program committees for major AI and HCI conferences and journals. She also serves on the board of CRA-W, the CRA committee on
the status of women in computing research. Dr. Lau holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Outside of work, Tessa is an avid snowboarder, hiker/backpacker, gardener, and cook.

 

Contact Information:

Email to tessalau@us.ibm.com. Or find me on Twitter as @tessalau.

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