ISR Alumni

Steve Abrams (deceased), previously Post-Doctoral Researcher, North Carolina State University
Rohan Achar, Software Development Engineer 2, Amazon
Hazel Asuncion, Associate Professor, University of Washington Bothell
Sushil Krishna Bajracharya, Sr. Software Engineer, NewStore, Inc.
Alex Baker, Chief Data Scientist, Armored Things
Alegria Baquero Merino, Software Engineer, ZocDoc
Mark Bergman, Senior User Researcher and Strategist, Blizzard Entertainment
Gerald Bortis, Vice President of Software Development, NextGen Healthcare
Erin Bradner, Director, Robotics, AutoDesk
Johanna Brewer, Co-Founder, Neta Snook
Ruy Cervantes, Founder, iD2R.co, Mexico
Judy Chen, Senior User Experience Researcher and Manager, Google
Justin Chung, Senior Technical Program Manager, Google
Marisa Leavitt Cohn, Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen
Leyna Cotran, Systems Engineer, Lyft and Adjunct Professor, Santa Clara University , Lyft Level 5
Nicole Crenshaw, Associate UX Researcher, Blizzard Entertainment
Eric Dashofy, Principal Director of Development, Enterprise Information Services, The Aerospace Corporation
Cleidson de Souza, Associate Professor, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Brazil
Thomas Debeauvais, Data Scientist, Twitch
Marcio S. Dias, Technical Architect, Scott Logic Ltd, UK
Nicholas DiGiuseppe, Chief Architect, F1 Payments
Xianghua (Sharon) Ding, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Fudan University
Yong hun Eom, Software Engineer, Twitter
Justin Erenkrantz, Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, MLB Advanced Media, L.P.
Yang Feng, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China
Roy Fielding, Senior Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems and Co-Founder, The Apache Software Foundation
Danyel Fisher, Principal Design Researcher, Honeycomb.io
Rosalva Gallardo Valencia, Privacy Program Manager, Google
Yasser Ganjisaffar, Engineering Manager, Forward Networks
John Georgas, Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University
Victor Gonzalez, Founder and Director, Sperientia: [studio+lab]
Michael Gorlick, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, The Aerospace Corporation
Mahmoud Hammad, Assistant Professor, Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST)
Byron Hawkins, Intern, Inria, Grenoble, France
Scott Hendrickson, Software Engineer, Google
Arthur Hitomi, CTO and Co-Founder, Numecent
Lilly Irani, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego, Department of Communication
Reyhaneh Jabbarvand Behrouz, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, CS Department (Jan 2021)
Sara Javanmardi, Staff Software Engineer, Google
Chris Jensen, Software Engineer, Google
Eric Kabsich, Head of UX, Stadia, Google
Peter Kammer, Senior Software Engineer, Google
Michael Kantor, Senior Front End Engineer , Airbnb
Maryam Khademi, Computer Vision and AI, Google
Rohit Khare, Product Manager, Google
Thomas Kistler, VP of Engineering, Upthere
Robb Klashner, Independent,
Bart Knijnenburg, Assistant Professor, Clemson University
Benjamin Koehne, Staff User Experience Researcher, Google
Yubo Kou, Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University
Yong Ming Kow, Assistant Professor, City University of Hong King, School of Creative Media
Hosub Lee, Staff Software Engineer, Samsung Research America
Yao Li, Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida, Informatics
Silvia Lindtner, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, School of Information
Charles Chang Liu, Professor, Ohio University
Nick Lopez, Senior Software Engineer, Google - Kitchener, Canada
Christian Lüer, Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Wayne Lutters, Associate Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
Nicolas Mangano, Fullstack Engineer, Nextgen and Co-Founder, SketchTogether (by Molimur)
Lee Martie, Research Staff Member, IBM Research, Cambridge, MA
David McDonald, Professor, Information School at the University of Washington
Jack Muramatsu, Founder, Editor, VP, Vinyl Pulse
Leila Naslavsky, Metrics Engineer/Analytics, Workday
Kristina Winbladh Nasr, Software Engineer, Google
Emily Navarro, Lecturer , Dept. of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science
Eugen Nistor, Software Engineer, Google
Peyman Oreizy, Engineering Manager, Care Zone, Inc
Joel Ossher, Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir Technologies
Xinru Page, Assistant Professor, Computer Information Systems Dept., Bentley University
Sameer Patil, Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing
Vijay Pelapu, Software Engineer, Microsoft
Sukanya Ratanotayanon, Faculty Member, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Ankita Raturi, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Purdue University
Madhu Reddy, Professor, Northwestern University
Jie Ren, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google
Arthur Alexander Reyes (deceased), previously Senior Lecturer, University of Texas at Arlington
Jason Elliot Robbins, Software Engineer, Google
Jennifer Rode, Senior Lecturer, Knowledge Lab, University College London, UK
Jose Romero-Mariona, Lead Research Scientist, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Pacific (SPAWAR)
Michele Rousseau, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, Saddleback College
Wiwat Ruengmee, Chief Technology Officer, Lifeyo
Alireza Sadeghi, Software Engineer, Google
Vaibhav Pratap Singh Saini, Software Engineer II, Microsoft, Redmond/ Bellevue, WA
Hitesh Sajnani, Software Engineering Researcher, Tools for Software Engineering (TSE) group, Microsoft
Nithya Sambasivan, Staff Researcher, Research Lead for AI in emerging markets, Google
Anita Sarma, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University
Suzanne Schaefer, Retired, previously Research Staff Member, UCLA
Bryan Semaan, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Francisco Servant, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Martin Shelton, Principal Researcher, Freedom of the Press Foundation
Wen Shen, Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science, Tulane University
Patrick Shih, Assistant Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington
Michael (Six) Silberman, Project Secretary, IG Metall, Frankfurt
Roberto Silveira Silva Filho, Lead Scientist, Intelligent Industrial Experiences Lab, GE Global Research
Norm Su, Assistant Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington
Girish Suryanarayana, Principal Key Expert for AI for Software Engineering, Siemens Corporation Research, Bangalore, India
Erik Trainer, User Researcher, Fidelity Investments, User Experience Specialist, City University of New York
Clark Turner, Professor, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo
Arthur Valadares, Database Software Engineer, Rockley Photonics
Marlon Vieira, Senior Director SW TeamCenter Platform, Siemens PLM Software
Oliver Yi Wang, Accepted Position, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China
Tao Wang, UX Researcher, SAP
Yang Wang, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Yiran Wang, User Experience (UX) Researcher, Google Seattle/Kirkland
E. James Whitehead, Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Hiroko Wilensky, Data Systems/Software Engineer, The Boeing Company
Amanda Williams, Senior Business Unit Manager, Jabil Packaging Solutions
Christine Wolf, Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center
Lihua Xu, Associate Professor, East China Normal University
Di Yang, Software Engineer, Microsoft
Mengyao Zhao, User Experience Researcher , WhatsApp Inc.
Yongjie Zheng, Associate Professor, Cal State University San Marcos

Alumni affiliated with ISR's predecessor, the Irvine Research Unit in Software (IRUS):

Ken Anderson, Professor and Associate Dean for Education, University of Colorado at Boulder
Gregory Alan Bolcer, CTO, Bitvore Corporation
Juei Chang, Software Engineer, Pixar Animation Studios
Nancy Eickelmann, IT Strategist, Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
Rebecca Grinter, Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Matts Heimdahl, Professor and Director, University of Minnesota Software Engineering Center
David Hilbert, Senior Research Scientist, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Holly Hildreth, Consultant,
M. Gregory James, Senior Product Manager , American Express
David Levine, Lead Technologist, Booze Allen Hamilton
R. Kent Madsen, Miracle Mile Advisors
Nenad Medvidovic, Professor and Associate Chair, University of Southern California
Owen O'Malley, Principal Engineer, LinkedIn
Leysia Palen, Professor & Founding Chair of Information Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
Adam A. Porter, Professor, University of Maryland
Douglas C. Schmidt, Professor, Vanderbilt University
John Self, Sr. Principal Engineer - Software, BAE Systems
Xiping Song, IT Security Consultant & Quality Manager, Siemens Corporation
Dennis Troup, Emerging Technologies Consultants, Inc.
Patrick Young, Lecturer, Stanford University
Hadar Ziv, Associate Professor of Teaching, Informatics Dept., Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences