Seminar Series
Select Fridays from 2-3 p.m. during the academic year, the department organizes a Friday seminar, for which it typically brings in outside speakers. All seminars are open to anyone who wants to attend. The seminars are an excellent opportunity to be inspired by what others are doing, learn about the state of the art and interact with influential researchers from across the world.
For Spring 2021, there will be no seminars held on April 9, May 7, or May 21. Also, due to the current pandemic, all seminars will be held online and can be accessed by logging onto Zoom using Meeting ID: 920 9373 5196.
Winter 2020 Seminars
January 10Eye Tracking Tools for Research on Individuals and Teams
Alexandra Papoutsaki
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Pomona College
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Pomona College
January 24The Joy of Search: Adventures in Teaching Online Research Skills (And Why That’s Important for Software Engineering)
Daniel M. Russell
Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness, Google
Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness, Google
ISR Southern California Software Engineering Symposium Keynote Speaker
January 31Playful Social Engineering: Technology for Being Together
Katherine Isbister
Professor, Department of Computational Media, UC Santa Cruz
Professor, Department of Computational Media, UC Santa Cruz
February 7A New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
Ruha Benjamin
Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
Note: In collaboration with the UCI School of Law, this talk will take place
in the Law and Education Building, Room EDU 1111.
February 21Worldmaking in the Pudding Court: Acculturation, Collaboration, and Power in Tabletop Roleplaying Games
Antero Garcia
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
February 28The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games
Bo Ruberg
Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies, UC Irvine
Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies, UC Irvine
March 6Future of Mental Health Sensing – Call to Arms
Andrew T. Campbell
Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor in Computer Science, Dartmouth College
Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor in Computer Science, Dartmouth College
ISR Distinguished Speaker Series
March 13At Once Comprehensive and Minute: South Asian Data’s Long Twentieth Century
Kavita Philip
Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty in Informatics, UC Irvine
Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty in Informatics, UC Irvine
Fall 2019 Seminars
October 4State of the Department
André van der Hoek, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair, Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine
Professor & Chair, Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine
October 11We Are All Well: A Partial History of Public Information Infrastructures after Disasters
Megan Finn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Washington
Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Washington
October 18Staying in Place, Surviving Networks: Coalition and Collaboration in Communities of Feminist Digital Media
Veronica Paredes, Ph.D.
Assistant professor, School of Theater, Film, and Television, UCLA
Assistant professor, School of Theater, Film, and Television, UCLA
November 1Inclusive and Engaged Research
Gillian Hayes, Ph.D.
Vice Provost of Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division, UC Irvine
Vice Provost of Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division, UC Irvine
November 8Engineering Failure for Learning: Debugging by Design
Yasmin B. Kafai, ED.
Lori and Michael Milken President’s Distinguished Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Lori and Michael Milken President’s Distinguished Professor, University of Pennsylvania
November 15Building a Future for Theatrical Play: Designing for Expressive Participatory Mixed Reality Performance
Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics, UC Irvine
Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics, UC Irvine
November 22In This Game That We’re Playing: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Video Games
Soraya Murray, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz
Associate Professor, Department of Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz
December 6
The Future of Informatics Research: A Showcase of Scholarship from Informatics Doctoral Candidates
Craig G. Anderson, Phoebe Chua, and Noopur Raval
Informatics Ph.D. Candidates, UC Irvine
Informatics Ph.D. Candidates, UC Irvine
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