Professor, Computer Science • Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Information Science
In 2016, Leysia Palen was elected to the ACM CHI Academy. 聽Prof. Palen is a leader in the area of聽crisis informatics, an area she forged with her graduate students and colleagues at 彩民宝典. She brings her training in human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work and social computing to bear on understanding and advancing聽socio-technical聽issues of societal importance. She conducts empirical research in the interpretivist tradition.聽