SPEAKER BIOS
Alyssa Sheehan is currently a PhD candidate in Human Centered Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Director for the Georgia Center of Innovation for Aerospace. Her industry experience working in manufacturing has directly informed her research which is focused on evaluating and designing automation for the future of work in blue collar domains. Together with industry partners, Alyssa investigates the impact of new technologies on workplace practices in settings including manufacturing, logistics, and emergency response to inform technology design and data practices. Situated within the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), her research has been published in top tier computing venues including Association for Computing Machinery Computer Human Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Designing Interactive Systems.
Vedant Das Swain is a PhD Candidate in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Munmun De Choudhury and Gregory Abowd. His research contributes to the future of work and behavioral wellbeing in general. He identifies, develops, and critiques opportunities to leverage ubiquitous technologies for algorithmic inference of performance and mental wellbeing. He consistently works with organizational psychologists to inform his investigations and also collaborates with Microsoft Research to develop better tools for worker wellbeing. His research has been published at top-tier computing venues like CHI, CSCW, UbiComp/IMWUT, ACII, and IEEE CogMI. His paper at CHI 2022 won a Best Paper Honorable Mention award. He is the winner of the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award at UbiComp 2022 and the GVU Foley Scholar Award 2022. His research has been supported by IARPA, NSF, CDC, ORNL, and Semiconductor Research Corporation.
Yixuan ("Janice") Zhang is a PhD candidate in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech. Her research broadly lies in human-computer interaction (HCI), data visualization (VIS), equitable computing, and the interdisciplinary fields of crisis informatics and health informatics. She regularly publishes in premier HCI and visualization venues, such as ACM CHI, CSCW, and IEEE VIS. Her research has been well recognized by academia: she was named a Rising Star in EECS 2022, and selected as a Foley Scholar. The impact of her research extends beyond academia; for example, she was invited to present her work to broader audiences, such as the World Health Organization (WHO). More information is available at https://zjanice.github.io
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