Bio
Katie Siek is an assistant professor in Computer Science at the
University of Colorado at Boulder where she leads the Wellness
Innovation and Interaction Lab. Her primary research interests are in
human computer interaction, health informatics, and ubiquitous
computing. More specifically, she is interested in how sociotechnical
interventions affect personal health and well being. Her research is
supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, and the National Science Foundation including a
five-year NSF CAREER award. She has been awarded a CRA-W Borg Early Career
Award and a Scottish
Informatics and Computer Science Alliance Distinguished Visiting
Fellowship. Prior to her appointment at Colorado, she earned her
PhD and MS at Indiana University Bloomington in computer science and
her BS in computer science at Eckerd College. She was a National
Physical Science Consortium Fellow at Indiana University and a Ford
Apprentice Scholar at Eckerd College.