Allison Woodruff
Allison Gyle Woodruff is an American computer scientist whose work concerns human–computer interaction, information visualization, algorithmic fairness, sustainability, citizen science, and environmental monitoring. She is a user experience researcher in the Google Security & Privacy team.[1]
Education and career
[edit]Woodruff majored in English at California State University, Chico, and has master's degrees in both linguistics and computer science from the University of California, Davis.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in computer science in 1998 at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation Data Lineage and Information Density in Database Visualization supervised by Michael Stonebraker.[3]
Before joining Google, she worked for Xerox PARC from 1998 to 2004,[2] and then for Intel Research Berkeley.[1]
Recognition
[edit]Woodruff was named to the CHI Academy in 2021[4] and became an ACM Distinguished Member in 2024.[5]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Speaker biography", ENIGMA 2018, USENIX, retrieved 2022-03-12
- 1 2 Author: Allison Woodruff, Interaction Design Foundation, retrieved 2022-03-12
- ↑ Allison Woodruff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 2021 SIGCHI Awards, ACM SIGCHI, retrieved 2022-03-12
- ↑ "Renowned Computing Society Announces New Class of Distinguished Members: 56 Professionals Celebrated for Innovation and Service". Association for Computing Machinery. 12 February 2025. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
External links
[edit]- Allison Woodruff publications indexed by Google Scholar