Sort byPh.D. students who started in 2009:

Klara Benda Klara Benda Casey Fiesler Casey Fiesler Mengdie Hu Mengdie Hu David Joyner David Joyner Tanya Markow Tanya Markow

Select a name to learn more.

Klara Benda

Klara Benda

Graduated 2014

Advisor Dr. Colin Potts


Dissertation Title Designing the Sakai Open Academic Environment: A Distributed Cognition Account of the Design of a Large Scale Software System

Casey Fiesler

Casey Fiesler

Graduated 2015

Advisor Dr. Amy Bruckman

Lab Electronic Learning Communities

Area Social Computing

Contact Email | Website


Research Interests copyright law, social computing, and collaborative creativity

Dissertation Title The role of copyright in online creative communities: law, norms, and policy

Mengdie Hu

Mengdie Hu

Graduated 2017

Advisor Dr. John Stasko

Lab Information Interfaces

Area Human-Computer Interaction

Contact Email | Website


Research Interests information visualization, visual analytics, social media analytics

Dissertation Title Visualization of Textual Content from Social Media and Online Communities

David Joyner

David Joyner

Graduated 2015

Advisor Dr. Ashok Goel

Lab Design & Intelligence

Area Learning Sciences & Technology

Contact Email | Website


Research Interests Educational technology, intelligent tutoring systems, online education, metacognition

Dissertation Title Metacognitive tutoring for inquiry-driven modeling

Tanya Markow

Tanya Markow

Graduated 2012

Advisor Dr. Thad Starner

Lab Contextual Computing

Area Human-Computer Interaction

Contact Email


Research Interests My research focuses on using vibro-tactile stimuli as a method to accomplish Passive Haptic Learning (PHL) and Passive Haptic Rehabilitation (PHR).

Dissertation Title Mobile Music Touch: Using Haptic Stimulation for Passivve Rehabilitation and Learning