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People In the Lab

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Don Norman

Founding Director Emeritus (Retired), The Design Lab

Mai Thi Nguyen

Director, The Design Lab; Professor, Urban Studies and Planning

Michèle Morris

Associate Director, The Design Lab; Co-Founder, Center for Design-Driven Transformation
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Nadir Weibel

Associate Faculty Director, The Design Lab; Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering

Faculty

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Eliah Aronoff-Spencer

Assistant Professor, Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health

Lisa Cartwright

Professor, Visual Arts, Communication and Science Studies
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Steven Dow

Associate Professor, Cognitive Science; Computer Science & Engineering
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Elizabeth V. Eikey

Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Sciences; Director, Mental Health in Design (MiD) Lab

Keolu Fox

Assistant Professor, Indigenous Futures
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William Griswold

Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
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Philip Guo

Associate Professor, Cognitive Science; Computer Science & Engineering
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Eric Hekler

Associate Dean, Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Sciences; Director, Center for Wireless & Population Health Systems
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Jim Hollan

Co-Director, The Design Lab; Professor, Cognitive Science; Computer Science & Engineering

Clemence Idoux

Assistant Professor, Economics
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Lilly Irani

Associate Professor, Communication
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David Kirsh

Professor, Cognitive Science
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Scott Klemmer

Co-Director, The Design Lab; Professor, Cognitive Science; Computer Science & Engineering
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Michael W. Meyer

Assistant Teaching Professor, Design, Rady School of Management
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Camille Nebeker

Associate Professor, Behavioral Medicine; Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Sciences; School of Medicine
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Laurel Riek

Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
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Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió

Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
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Edward Wang

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Nadir Weibel

Associate Faculty Director, The Design Lab; Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
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Haijun Xia

Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science

Pinar Yoldas

Associate Professor, Visual Arts

Staff

Carla Gunnella

Senior Project Manager

Elysia Mac

Assistant Project Manager

Sheila Oberrecht

Executive Assistant to the Director, The Design Lab

Kevin Popović

Program Manager, The Design Lab

Nivardo Valenzuela

Operations Manager, The Design Lab

James White

Senior Program Manager, The Design Lab

Researchers

Jane E

Postdoctoral Researcher, Cognitive Science
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Deborah Forster

Researcher, The Design Lab
Maryam Gholami

Maryam Gholami

Postdoctoral Researcher, Psychiatry, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health

Brian Hempel

Postdoctoral Researcher, Cognitive Science
Vera Khovanskaya Postdoc Researcher Design Lab

Vera Khovanskaya

Postdoctoral Researcher, Communication

Meelim Kim

Postdoctoral Researcher, The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
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Albert Lin

Assistant Research Scientist, Qualcomm Institute

Scott McAvoy

Geisel/Digital Media Lab/Ocean prototypes
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Brian McInnis

Postdoctoral Researcher, Social Computing

Nan Renner

Sr Director, Learning Design

Sangho Suh

Postdoctoral Researcher, Cognitive Science
Yu-Chun Yen

Yu-Chun (Grace) Yen

Postdoctoral Researcher, Cognitive Science

Graduate Students

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Maya Azarova

Graduate Student, Anthropology
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Colin Barry

Graduate Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Matthew Beaudouin-Lafon

Graduate Student, Cognitive Science

Rima (Yining) Cao

Graduate Student, Cognitive Science

Johnnie Chatman

Graduate Student, Visual Arts

Clarissa Chevalier

Graduate Student, Visual Arts
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Chen Chen

Graduate Student, Computer Science & Engineering

Mingyong Cheng

Graduate Student, Visual Arts
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Tony Cho

Graduate Student, Communications
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Cora Coleman

Graduate Student, Computer Science & Engineering
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Jessica De Souza

Graduate Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Jonah Gray

Graduate Student, Visual Arts
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Madhuri Gubbala

Graduate Student, Computer Science & Engineering

Louis Gutierrez

Graduate Student, Computer Science & Engineering
Sierra Hagerty

Sierra Hagerty

Graduate Student, School of Public Health and Human Longevity Sciences

Devamardeep Hayatpur

Graduate Student, Cognitive Science

Peiling Jiang

Graduate Student, Cognitive Science
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Robert Kaufman

Graduate Student, Cognitive Science
Michelle Liu

Michelle Liu

Graduate Student, School of Public Health and Human Longevity Sciences

Hayden Mctavish

Graduate Student, Computer Science & Engineering

Kathryne Metcalf

Graduate Student, Communication
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Alok Mysore

Graduate Student, Computer Science & Engineering
srishti palani

Srishti Palani

Graduate Student, Cognitive Science

Junghwan Park

Graduate Student, The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science

Joe Riley

Graduate Student, Visual Arts

Emilia Rosselli-del-turco

Graduate Student, Cognitive Science

Nazanin Sabri

Graduate Student, Computer Science

Coral Pereda Serras

Graduate Student, Visual Arts

Stephanie Sherman

Graduate Student, Visual Arts

Mary Anne Smart

Graduate Student, Computer Science & Engineering

Lian Song

Graduate Student, Communication

Fuling Sun

Graduate Student, Cognitive Science
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Lu Sun

Graduate Student, Cognitive Science
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Udayan Tandon

Graduate Student, Computer Science & Engineering
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Verónica Uribe del Aguila

Graduate Student, Communication
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Varun Viswanath

Graduate Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Xinwei “Xavier” Wang

Graduate Student, Computer Science & Engineering
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Paul Wynns

Graduate Student, Rady School of Management

Sinan Xie

Graduate Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Hui Xin Ng

Graduate Student, Cognitive Science
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Tone Xu

Graduate Student, Cognitive Science
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Yinan (Tom) Xuan

Graduate Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Matin Yarmand

Graduate Student, Computer Science & Engineering
Affiliated Faculty

Sarah Aarons, Assistant Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Memo Akten, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
Morana Alac
, Associate Professor, Communication
Amy Alexander, Professor, Visual Arts
Theresa Ambo, Assistant Professor, Education Studies
Ben Berge
, Professor, Cognitive Science
Alan Card, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics
Jordan Crandall, Professor, Visual Arts
Ricardo Dominguez, Associate Professor, Visual Arts
Nate Delson, Associate Teaching Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Mai ElSherief, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Judith Fan, Assistant Professor, Psychology
Linda Hill, Clinical Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Sciences; Director, UCSD/SDSU General Preventive Medicine Residency
Haojian Jin, Assistant Professor Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI)
Michael Kurisu, Director, UCSD Center for Integrative Medicine and Clinical Training – Osteopathic Center San Diego
Bobby McElver, Acting Associate Professor, Theatre
Alison Moore, Professor, Medicine and Psychiatry
Imani N. S Munyaka, Assistant Professor, Jacobs School of Engineering
Kevin Patrick, Professor Emeritus, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Sciences
Keith Pezzoli, Director of Bioregional Center for Sustainability Science, Planning and Design
Susan Peerson, Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
Victoria Petrovich, Professor, Theatre
Kyong Park, Professor, Visual Arts
Mirle Rabinowitz-Bussell, Academic Director, Real Estate and Development
Christo Sims, Associate Professor, Communication
Kristen Vaccaro, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
K. Wayne Yang, Professor, Ethnic Studies; Provost of John Muir College
Michael Yip, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Visiting Scholars

Andrea Alessandrini, Visiting Scholar, University of Dundee (July 2016 – September 2016)
Kristian Borup Antonsen, Visiting Researcher, Aarhus University (September – December 2018)
Jan Borchers, Visting Scholar, RWTH Aachen University (October 2016 – March 2017)
Maria del Mar Martinez (Nov 2020 – Current)
Byron Fergerson, Associate Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology
Paul Hekkert, Visiting Scholar, Delft University of Technology (February 2017)
Lawrence Herzog, Visiting Scholar, UCSD Urban Studies and Planning (August 2021 – Current)
Eric von Hippel, Visiting Scholar, MIT Sloan School of Management (January 2018)
Max Mühlhäuser, Visiting Scholar, Technical University of Darmstadt (June 2022 – September 2022)
Sheng-Feng Qin, Visiting Scholar, Northumbria School of Design (November 2016 – March 2017)
Dan Russell, Visiting Scholar, Google (May 2015, May 2016, May 2017)
Mor Shilon, Visiting Scholar, Israel Institute of Technology (Nov 2020 – Present)
Pieter Jan Stappers, Visiting Scholar, Delft University of Technology (July 2015)
Norbert Streitz, Visiting Scholar, Smart Future Initiative (August 2015)
M.C., Schraefel, Visiting Scholar, University of Southampton (November – December 2018)
Aurelien Tabard, Visiting Scholar, Université Claude Bernard Lyon (July 2017)
Peggy Zwolinski, Visiting Scholar, Grenoble INP – Génie Industriel (December 2017 – April 2018)

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