UW CREATE

People of CREATE

Directors
Faculty
Postdocs
Visitors
Staff

CREATE is a consortium of innovators from the University of Washington’s computer science, mechanical engineering, human-centered design and engineering, information school, and rehabilitation medicine and disability studies.

CREATE's icon: a human with a prosthetic arm holding up a lightbulb

Interested in joining CREATE? Learn about becoming a faculty member or a student member.

Directors

Jennifer Mankoff, Director

Jennifer Mankoff, a white, Jewish woman with an invisible disability. She is smiling broadly and standing casually in the Allen Center atrium

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Richard E. Ladner Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Director, Make4all Lab

Mankoff faculty page
jmankoff@cs.uw.edu
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Mark Harniss, Director for Education

Mark Harniss a white man in his 50s with short brown hair and blue eyes wearing a dark polo shirt in front of fall-colored leaves.

Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine

Director, Center for Technology and Disability Studies and UW Disability Studies Program

Harniss faculty page
mharniss@uw.edu
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Anat Caspi, Associate Director

Anat CaspiA white woman smiling into the camera. She is wearing a purple blouse.

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Affiliate Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Director, Taskar Center for Accessible Technology

Caspi faculty page
uwtcat@uw.edu
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Heather Feldner, Associate Director

Headshot of Heather Feldner, smiling brightly. She is a white woman with short brown and grey hair, and wears dark rimmed glasses, a gray shirt and black sweater.

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Assistant Professor, UW Medicine Rehabilitation Medicine: Physical Therapy

Core Faculty, Disability Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Center for Technology and Disability Studies

Director, IMPACT Collaboratory

Feldner faculty page
hfeldner@uw.edu
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Leah Findlater, Associate Director

Headshot of Leah Findlater, smiling warmly. She is a white woman with brown hair.

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Associate Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering

Adjunct Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Director, Inclusive Design Lab

Findlater faculty page
leahkf@uw.edu
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James Fogarty, Associate Director

Candid photo of James Fogarty smiling. He is a white man with, in this photo, neatly combed short brown hair.

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Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Fogarty faculty page
jfogarty@cs.uw.edu
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Jon Froehlich, Associate Director

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Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Core Faculty, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments

Director, Makeability Lab 

PI, Project Sidewalk

Froehlich faculty page
jonf@cs.uw.edu
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Richard Ladner, Founding Director for Education Emeritus

Headshot of Richard Ladner. He has grey hair and beard and is wearing a blue shirt and colorful tie.

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Professor Emeritus, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Principal Investigator, AccessComputing and AccessCSforAll

Ladner faculty page
ladner@cs.uw.edu
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Kat Steele, Associate Director

Headshot of Kat Steele, smiling warmly. She is a white woman with long brown hair.

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Albert S. Kobayashi Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Director, Ability & Innovation Lab and AMP Lab

Steele faculty page
kmsteele@uw.edu
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Jacob O. Wobbrock, Associate Director, Founding Co-Director Emeritus

Jacob O. Wobbrock, a 40-something white man with short hair, a beard, and glasses. He is smiling in front of a white board.

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Professor, The Information School

Adjunct Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Director, ACE Lab

Wobbrock faculty page
wobbrock@uw.edu
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Faculty members

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Hala Annabi

Headshot of Hala Annabi. She has long brown hair and wears a stylish sleeveless blouse.

Associate Professor and MSIM Program Chair, The Information School

Annabi faculty page
hpannabi@uw.edu
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Maya Cakmak

Headshot of Maya Cakmak She is smiling cheerfully and wearing a bright yellow scarf.

Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Cakmak faculty page
mcakmak@uw.edu
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Sarah Marie Coppola

Sarah Coppola, a white woman with long, black curly hair. She is smiling at the camera and the background is blurred.

Assistant Teaching Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering

Coppola faculty page
scoppola@uw.edu
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Kim Ingraham

Headshot of Kim Ingraham, who is smiling while standing in front of the cherry blossoms on UW's campus. She is a white woman with long wavy strawberry blonde hair.

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Director, Ingraham Lab

Ingraham faculty page
kingra@uw.edu
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Stephanie Kerschbaum

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Associate Professor of English

Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric

Kerschbaum faculty page
kersch.uw@gmail.com
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Julie Kientz

Julie Kientz, a white woman with medium-long brown hair and brown eyes. She is smiling, wearing a denim jacket with arms crossed, in front of a green hedge

Professor and Chair, Human Centered Design & Engineering

Director, Computing for Healthy Living and Learning Lab

Kientz faculty page
jkientz@uw.edu@uw.edu
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Amy J. Ko

Amy J. Ko, a 40-something white/Asian woman with brown hair and black rimmed cat eye classes. She is smiling, head tilted.

Professor, The Information School and Program Chair for Informatics 

Director, Code & Cognition Lab

Ko faculty page
ajko@uw.edu
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Meredith Ringel Morris

Headshot of Meredith Ringel Morris, a middle-aged white woman with curly light brown hair.

Affiliate Professor, The Information School and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Director and Principal Scientist of the People + AI Research team at Google Research

Morris faculty page
merrie@google.com
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Sushil K. Oswal

Headshot of Sushil K. Oswal in clear glasses. He is wearing a dark blue button-down shirt with a blue suit coat.

Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and an affiliate faculty in the Disability Studies Program

Oswal faculty page
oswal@uw.edu
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Ana Pinto da Silva

Ana Pinto da Silva, brown hair, brown eyes, smiling broadly and holding a framed certificate of recognition from the County of Orange.

Associate Teaching Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE)
Director, Master of Human Computer Interaction + Design (MHCI+D)

Pinto da Silva page
apdsilva@uw.edu
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Katharina Reinecke

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Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Reinecke faculty page
reinecke@cs.uw.edu
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Steve Tanimoto

Prof. Steve Tanimoto, smiling in a black turtleneck shirt in the Allen Center atrium. Photo credit: Bruce Hemingway

Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Tanimoto faculty page
tanimoto@cs.uw.edu
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Annuska Zolyomi

Headshot of Annuska Zolyomi, a white woman with long brown hair smiling warmly.

Assistant Teaching Professor, Computing & Software Systems, UW Bothell

Zolyomi faculty page
annuska@uw.edu
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Postdocs

Alexandra Portnova

Sasha Portnova, a white woman, with brown hair and blond tips. She is smiling broadly and standing against a blue building.

Postdoctoral Researcher, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Portnova research page
alexandra.portnova@gmail.com
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Stacy Hsueh

Stacy Hsueh, an Asian woman. She is smiling, looking away from the camera, against a bright background

Postdoctoral Researcher, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Hsueh research page
shsueh@cs.uw.edu
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Alumni postdocs

  • Abigale Stangl: Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design
  • Maitraye Das: Assistant Professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University
  • Momona Yamagami: Assistant Professor at Rice University Electrical & Computer Engineering

Visiting faculty

Alumni visiting faculty and scholars

Matthew Butler, Associate Professor, Department of Human Centred Computing, Monash University, Australia. Visiting scholar, hosted by Jen Mankoff and the Make4all Lab. 2022-2023.

Emily Whiting, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Boston University. Visiting Scholar in Human Centered Design & Engineering and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. 2022 – 2023.

Staff

Olivia Banner

Olivia Banner, a white woman with a warm smile and smiling eyes

Director of Strategy and Operations

Dr. Banner joins CREATE January 2024!

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oliviapb@cs.uw.edu

Kathleen Quin Voss

Headshot of Kathleen Q. Voss, a white woman with blonde-brown hair, wearing blue eyeglasses.

Community Engagement and Partnerships Manager

Voss LinkedIn page
kqvoss@cs.uw.edu

Liz Diether-Martin

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Digital Content Developer and Editor

Diether-Martin LinkedIn page
lizdm@uw.edu