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Cliff Lampe is an Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. His research examines the positive outcomes of interaction in online communities, ranging from development of interpersonal relationships, to nonprofit collective action, to new forms of civic engagement. His work on Facebook and social capital has been heavily cited in a range of disciplines. Dr. Lampe serves as the Vice President of Publications for SIGCHI, the Technical Program Chair for CHI2017, and the Steering Committee Chair for the CSCW community. 

Dr. Lena Mamykina is a Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. Dr. Mamykina’s research resides in the areas of Biomedical Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, and Computer-Supported Collaborative Work. Her broad research interests include individual and collective cognition, sensemaking, and problem-solving in the context of health and wellness.

Dr. Megan Strait is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where she leads the Social Systems (SOSY) Lab. Drawing upon an interdisciplinary background in cognitive science, computer science, and psychology, her research addresses the less positivistic side of human-agent interaction dynamics to bear out both aesthetic and architectural design guidelines for socially oriented technologies.

Dave Kanter comes from a background reaching back to the “pre-Netscape” days of web site and interactive development. He has worked for a number of prestigious companies as a freelance consultant in technology development, production development, programming, project management, and production. Dave is currently a member of the Full-time Faculty of the Design and Technology department at Parsons School of Design, where he mostly teaches classes related to computer programming—although he’s been known to hold forth on a range of subjects.

Morgan G. Ames researches the ideological origins of inequality in the technology world, with a focus on utopianism, childhood, and learning. The questions that drive her current projects concern the ways in which young people construct their identities with computers, and how computers (and the technology design practices that produced them) shape the identities they construct.

Henry Lieberman is a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Laboratory, where he has been since 1987. He directs the Software Agents group, which is concerned with making intelligent software that provides assistance to users in interactive interfaces. His current projects involve applying Common Sense Reasoning to interactive applications, and ways of making programming easier for non-experts, through the use of Programming by Example and natural language interfaces.

Dr. Nazanin Andalibi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. She is also affiliated with the Center for Social Media Responsibility, the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing, and the Digital Studies Institute. Her research interests are in social computing and HCI. Her work centers around relationships between emotions, identity, and technologies in contexts ranging from social media to artificial intelligence, often with attention to marginalization, social positions, and power.

Satya is an experimental computer scientist who has pioneered research in mobile and pervasive computing. One outcome is the open-source Coda File System, which supports distributed file access in low-bandwidth and intermittent wireless networks through disconnected and bandwidth-adaptive operation. The Coda concepts of hoarding, reintegration and application-specific conflict resolution can be found in the hotsync capability of PDAs today. Key ideas from Coda have been incorporated by Microsoft into the IntelliMirror component of Windows 2000 and the Cached Exchange Mode of Outlook 2003.

Andy Wilson is a partner researcher at Microsoft Research. There he has been applying sensing technologies to enable new modes of human-computer interaction. These days he is focused on augmented and virtual reality, ubiquitous computing and interactive computer vision. He contributed to Microsoft’s earliest efforts to commercialize depth cameras, leading to Kinect, and worked extensively on the original Surface interactive table. Before joining Microsoft, Andy obtained his BA at Cornell University, and MS and PhD at the MIT Media Laboratory.

Janet Ward Schofield is a Professor of Psychology and a Senior Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She received a B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Harvard where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University in 1972.