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I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU). I am part of the Human-Centered Computing area, and have affiliations to other similarly-minded organizations at CU. I love to do research, especially multi-disciplinary research on the interesting issues that crop up when people-meet-technology (and vice versa). I’ve worked in a variety of domains and investigated a range of topics in Human-Centered Computing.

However, currently and most actively, I work in the area of Crisis Informatics, which describes the intersecting trajectories of social, technical and information matters in crises and disasters.

Members and affiliates of my research group—the ConnectivITy Lab—and I are leading research that investigates the evolving role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in emergency and disaster situations, with a particular focus on information dissemination and the implications of ICT-supported public participation on informal and formal crisis response. A 2006 National Science Foundation  Early CAREER grant—Data in Disaster—and a $2.8M NSF grant in collaboration with University of California, Irvine— PROJECT EPIC: Empowering the Public with Information in Crisis— support this work.