Phoebe Sengers is an American computer scientist and ethnographer, currently a professor at Cornell University with a joint appointment in the Department of Science & Technology Studies and the Department of Information Science.[1] She directs a research group on culturally embedded computing, and also holds affiliations with the Cornell Department of Computer Science, Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture, and Atkinson Center for Sustainability.[2] Her research concerns technology and society, human–computer interaction, and sustainable computing, particularly focusing on experiences in rural areas, among the working classes, and in the developing world.
Education and career edit
Sengers studied computer science at Johns Hopkins University, graduating in 1990 with a minor in German.[3] She completed a self-defined Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and cultural theory in 1998, at Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation, Anti-Boxology: Agent Design in Cultural Context, was supervised by Joseph Bates.[3][4]
After postdoctoral research as a Fulbright Scholar at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Germany, and at the [[German National Research Center for Information Technology]] (now part of the FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik), she came to Cornell as an assistant professor in both the Department of Science & Technology Studies and the Department of Information Science in 2001. She was promoted to associate professor in 2008. In 2020 she reduced her appointment to half-time, and in 2022 she was promoted to full professor, still at half-time.[3]
Recognition edit
Sengers was elected to the CHI Academy in 2023.[2] She was named as an ACM Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, for "contributions to critically-informed human-computer interaction and design".[5]
Personal life edit
Sengers is one of four children of Dutch-American physicists Anneke Levelt Sengers and Jan V. Sengers.[6]
References edit
- ^ "Phoebe Sengers", People: Faculty, Cornell Information Science, February 2, 2018, retrieved 2024-01-26
- ^ a b Sengers named to CHI Academy, Cornell Information Science, February 16, 2023, retrieved 2024-01-26
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), Cornell Information Science, September 2022, retrieved 2024-01-26
- ^ Phoebe Sengers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "2023 ACM Fellows Celebrated for Contributions to Computing That Underpin Our Daily Lives", Media center, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2024-01-26
- ^ "Forward thinking" (PDF), Engineering @ Maryland, University of Maryland, p. 31, Fall 2003
External links edit
- Home page
- Phoebe Sengers publications indexed by Google Scholar