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Associate Professor

Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Accessibility, and Computing Education

Professor

Research Interests: Usability, Usefulness, Human-Centered Design, Information Behavior, Embodiment, Human and Nonhuman Perception, De-Centering Design, Anthropocene

Affiliate Faculty

Dr. Meredith Castles (University of Tasmania, Australia)

Dr. Devorah Kletenik (Brooklyn College), Associate Professor

Dr. Ruth West (University of North Texas), Professor

Ph.D. Students

Siyao Cheng (iSchool)

Research Interests: Copyright Literacy and Education, Everyday Information Behavior, Cultural Heritage

Advisor: Dr. Melissa Ocepek

Abhinav Choudhry (iSchool)

Research Interests: Health Informatics; Applied Generative AI to Health, Education, FinTech; Inclusive Design; Information Search Behaviour; Financial Literacy; HCI

Advisor: Dr. Rachel Adler

Chunyu (Nora) Liu (iSchool)

Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Accessibility, Human-AI Interaction, Social Computing, Computing Education

Advisor: Dr. Rachel Adler

Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, UX Research Education Technology, Technology-Enhanced Accessibly, and Learning Sciences

Advisor: Dr. Rachel Adler

Olivia Wang (Informatics)

Research Interests: Accessibility, Music and Sound, Human-Computer Interaction, Games, Physical Computing, AR/VR

Advisor: Dr. Rachel Adler & Dr. Deana McDonagh

Jialuo Yang (iSchool)

Research Interests:  Embodiment & Ex-bodiment, Social Agent & Human-Agent Interaction, Social & interpersonal Dynamic, Human-Computer Integration, HCI

Advisor: Dr. Christopher Lueg

Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou (iSchool)

Research Interests: AI Ethics, Usable Security and Privacy, Inclusive Design, HCI

Advisor: Dr. Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo & Dr. Rachel Adler

M.S. Students

Tolu Adedoja (UCLA)

Justin Eric Chen

Zehong Lan

Bashab Mazumder (R.G.P.V, now at Microsoft Windows)

Freax Ruby (Yaoyao Qian) (Northeastern)

Shreya Shetty

Hangyue Zhang

B.S. Students

Anchal Ankola

Tavi Barlow

Allie Bosch

Brady Matthew Brooks

Arianna Caveney

Jack Damhorst

Aishi Dua

Lily Isabella Ge

Carol Gong

Celesta Irawan

Mithali Iyer

Preeti Kamma

Elizabeth Lodvikov (Brooklyn College)

Aditi Mathur

William Merrick

Jonathan Mshvelidze (Brooklyn College)

Anne (Xiangyue) Que (Berkeley)

Ezra Raj

Daniela Raudales Reyes (Northeastern Illinois University)

Luyang Si

Gwendolyn Slaughter

Annie Wang

Sihun Wang

Ashley Grace Witte

Jason Wu

Previous Students

Kevin Baez (Northeastern Illinois University)

Melissa Delgado (Northeastern Illinois University)

Shannon Dwyer

Elise Feuerborn

Tanisha Gajjar

Tejas Garg

Elizabeth Jarvis (Northeastern Illinois University)

Zhi (Richie) Li

Chenyu Liao

Abrar Mubeen

Aleksandra Peric (Northeastern Illinois University)

Ellie Popoca

Jocelyn Sotelo (Northeastern Illinois University)

Samantha Sy

Margaret Zhang