Phoebe Sengers
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] Sengers is engaged in a long-term ethnographic project to study sociological changes brought about by technology in the Change Islands, Newfoundland, an isolated and tradition-bound fishing community.[5]
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".[6]
Personal life
[edit]Sengers is one of four children of Dutch-American physicists Anneke Levelt Sengers and Jan V. Sengers.[7]
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
- ^ "Phoebe Sengers". Intel Science & Technology Center for Social Computing. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
- ^ "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]- Cornell Science & Technology Studies bio
- Phoebe Sengers publications indexed by Google Scholar
