Joanna McGrenere

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Joanna McGrenere is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in human-computer interaction, adaptive user interfaces, and universal usability. She is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia.

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Education and career

McGrenere graduated from Western University in 1993, with a bachelor's degree in computer science. After briefly working for IBM, she returned to graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1996 at the University of British Columbia and completing her Ph.D. in 2002 at the University of Toronto. [1] Her dissertation, The Design and Evaluation of Multiple Interfaces: A Solution for Complex Software, was jointly supervised by Ronald Baecker and Kellogg S. Booth. [2]

After completing her doctorate, she returned to the University of British Columbia as an assistant professor in 2002. She was promoted to full professor in 2013. [1] At the University of British Columbia, her notable doctoral students have included Leah Findlater and Karyn Moffat. [2]

Recognition

In 2004, McGrenere became the inaugural winner of the Borg Early Career Award of the Computing Research Association. [3] In 2011, the Canadian Association of Computer Science gave McGrenere their Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award. [4] McGrenere was elected to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Curriculum vitae (PDF), August 2019, retrieved 2019-09-17
  2. 1 2 Joanna McGrenere at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Borg Early Career Award, Computing Research Association, retrieved 2019-09-17
  4. Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Awards 2011, Canadian Association of Computer Science, retrieved 2019-09-17
  5. Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, University of British Columbia Computer Science, August 2017, retrieved 2019-09-17