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 Science from North Carolina State University. Tamara’s work focuses on designing technology (e.g., social media,…

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) and then in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Group (2006-2008). From 2008 to 2013, Paletz was…

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 Information Technologies department of the Robert H. Smith School of Business. At UCLA Anderson School…

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 recipient of an NSF CAREER award as well as several best paper and honorable mention…

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 elements of security- and privacy-related decision making. Recent projects include examining how and why developers…

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 in the Human-Centered Computing program from Georgia Tech and was a postdoctoral fellow in the…

Jonathan Lazar, PhD, LLM is a professor in the College of Information Studies (iSchool) at the University of Maryland. Professor Lazar has authored or edited 14 books, including Accessible Technology and the Developing World (co-edited with Michael Stein), Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction (2nd edition, co-authored with Heidi Feng and Harry Hochheiser), Ensuring Digital Accessibility…

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 Award, IEEE Intelligent Systems AI’s 10 to Watch, Google Faculty Research Award, Google AI for…

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 cognitive skills, interfaces, tools and practices, to collaborative and organizational dynamics and tools, all the…

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 with Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. He is author of the…