Faculty and Researchers

Below are the faculty and researchers conducting research on interactive systems and are affiliated with the ISRC from across the UMBC campus.

Nilanjan Banerjee Professor, CSEE Wearable and wireless sensors for Health and Assistive Technologies

Lee Boot Director, Research Associate Professor, Imaging Research Center Experimental media artist, visualizations

Lujie Karen Chen Assistant Professor, IS Multimodal modeling of human behaviors and interactions, educational data mining/learning analytics, health informatics

Don Engel Assistant Professor, CSEE Associate Vice President for Research Development Director of the Center for Space Sciences and Technology (CSST) Research in visualization (esp. VR), human/AI collaboration, and visualization in support of collaborative work

Foad Hamidi Assistant Professor, IS Participatory Design, Assistive Technology, DIY Physical Computing

Andrea Kleinsmith Associate Professor, IS Affective behavior recognition, Training in complex real world situations

Anita Komlodi Associate Professor, IS Human-Information Interaction, Visualization

Ravi Kuber Associate Professor, IS Tactile interface design, Accessibility

Cynthia Matuszek Assistant Professor, CSEE Human-robot interaction (HRI), Natural language processing

Helena Mentis Professor, IS CSCW, Health IT, Gestural interaction, Movement analysis

Shimei Pan Associate Professor, IS NLP, User modeling, Human-in-the-loop   machine learning, Multimodal conversation systems

Tera Reynolds Assistant Professor, IS Health Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-supported Cooperative Work, and Public Health

Ramana Vinjamuri Assistant Professor, CSEE Brain Computer Interfaces, Collaborative Robots, Prosthetics, Exoskeletons