Dr. Bai and her team will develop embodied AI learning tech for K-12 students.

Adira Blumenthal, research assistant in ROC HCI Lab, has also been involved every semester with ROC Players, a student run club that puts on a full-length musical each semester for the University community.  “I’ve really enjoyed helping productions come to life, either through management or design.”

Congratulations to Adira Blumenthal for receiving an honorable mention award from the CRA for her excellence in undergraduate research.

Ehsan Hoque, who works in the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and human-centered computing (HCC), has been named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his outstanding contributions to computing.

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Kurtis Haut, lead author on both papers.

We will work on redesigning and maximizing human productivity through self-organizing social networks.

Xiaofei Zhou, a Ph.D. student at the ROC-HCI Lab, has received a three-year Industry Fellowship through the AR/VR Ph.D. Trainee Program at the University of Rochester.

In collaboration with Vivian Shen and Chris Harrison from CMU, Spann wins the best paper award at the ACM Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2021 conference.

Raiyan Abdul Baten, a network science and human-computer interaction (HCI) researcher, is exploring these questions by meeting humans where they are: on social media.

As part of our ongoing inclusive computing initiative, we are organizing a roundtable with UR alum currently working at Google.

Congratulations to Sangwu Lee, a junior student in CS, for being among the 18 junior students to be inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.