Category: Featured Faculty/Staff

Tamara Clegg is an associate professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, where she co-directs the Youth eXperience (YX) Lab. She received her Ph.d. from Georgia Tech’s College of Computing and her B.S. in Computer…

Susannah Paletz received her PhD in social/personality psychology from the University of California, Berkeley (2003, Dec.). In early 2004 she joined NASA Ames Research Center as a civil servant Research Psychologist, first in the Distributed Team Decision Making Laboratory (2004-2006)…

At the University of Maryland, College Park, Ping Wang is an associate professor at the College of Information Studies (iSchool), and faculty member of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. He is also an affiliate associate professor at the Decision, Operations and…

Niklas Elmqvist is a professor at University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. in computer science in 2006 from Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. His research area is information visualization, human-computer interaction, and visual analytics. He is the…

Michelle Mazurek is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, where she also directs the Maryland Cybersecurity Center. Her research aims to understand and improve the human…

Zhicheng “Leo” Liu is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Maryland. Prior to joining UMD in August 2020, he was a research scientist at the Creative Intelligence Lab, Adobe Research. Liu received his PhD…

John P Dickerson is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland as well as Chief Scientist of Arthur AI, an enterprise-focused AI/ML model monitoring firm. He is a recipient of awards such as the NSF CAREER…

Joel Chan is an Assistant Professor in the iSchool. His research and teaching explores systems that support creative knowledge work, in domains such as design and scientific discovery. Being in an iSchool, he conceives of “systems” very broadly, from individual…

Jason Farman is a Professor of American Studies and the Director of the Design Cultures & Creativity Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also a faculty member with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and a Faculty Associate…