Jacob O. Wobbrock

http://faculty.washington.edu/wobbrock/
wobbrock [at] u.washington.edu
Faculty
Information School, Computer Science & Engineering

Jacob O. Wobbrock is an Assistant Professor in the Information School and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. His research interests involve both inventing new interactive technology and studying human use of technology, often for people with disabilities. Dr. Wobbrock directs the AIM Research Group comprising students from information and computer science. Prior to coming to the University of Washington, Dr. Wobbrock received his Ph.D. from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He also received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Symbolic Systems and Computer Science, respectively, from Stanford University. Dr. Wobbrock is a PI or Co-PI on four National Science Foundation grants, including a CAREER award. He is also the only researcher to hold three best paper awards from the ACM CHI conference, the premier conference in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). His web site is at http://faculty.washington.edu/wobbrock/. The AIM Research Group web site is at http://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/.

Awards:

• National Science Foundation CAREER award 2010-2015
• 3 CHI best paper awards 2006-2008
• CHI best paper nomination 2009
• MobileHCI best paper award 2008
• ASSETS best paper award 2004
• Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award 2006
• Winner, NISH National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation and Design 2005 (Runner-up 2008, Honorable Mention 2009)
• National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow 2004