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Elizabeth Gerber

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
2133 Sheridan Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
lizgerber.com
delta.northwestern.edu
egerber@northwestern.edu

twitter: @elizgerber
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizgerber/

Academic Employment

• Professor, Northwestern University in departments of:
  • Segal Design Institute (School of Engineering)
  • Mechanical Engineering (School of Engineering)
  • Communication Studies (School of Communications)
  • Computer Science (School of Engineering), by courtesy
  • Learning Sciences (School of Education & Social Policy), by courtesy
• Founding Co-Director, Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, 2020-present
• Associate Professor. 2015-2021
• Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, 2016-2019
• Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research, 2015-present
• Director, Segal Design Cluster, 2015-present
• Advisory Council, Winterhouse  Symposium, 2010-present
• Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Professor of Design, 2012-2015
• Assistant Professor of Design, 2008-2015
• Founder, Design for America, 2008-present
• Postdoctoral Scholar, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University, 2007-2008

Education

• Ph.D., Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University
 2003-2007. Advisors: Dr. Robert Sutton, Dr. Chip Heath, & Dr. Pamela Hinds
• M.S., Joint Program in Product Design, Art and Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University.  Advisors: David Kelley & Rolf Faste, 2001-2003
• B.A., Dartmouth College, 1994-1998

Significant Honors and Distinctions

1. ACM’s SIGCHI 2022 Social Impact Award: Chosen for the promotion of human computer interaction research to pressing social needs
2. Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt’s 2018 Corporate and Institutional Achievement Award: Design for America recognized for lasting achievement in American design
3. Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence Award, 2016: Chosen as one of three faculty for outstanding performance in classroom teaching and development of significant innovations that have influenced the methods and teaching effectiveness of other faculty and significant curricular enhancements to undergraduate education at Northwestern.
4. Impact Design Hub’s 40 under 40, 2016:Recognized as one of the brightest young minds at work designing for social good
5. Wells Fargo’s Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Trust Award, 2015: Chosen for inspiring former students to create organizations which demonstrably confer benefits on the community at large across the United States
6. Core 77 Design Awards: Professional Runner Up: Best Education Initiative, 2014: Design for America Process Guide selected for its iterative development and field-tested curriculum for novice designers.
7. IEEE’s Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2014: Chosen for Design for America, her paradigm shifting extracurricular design initiative that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and learning
8. Crain’s 40 under 40 List of Chicago’s Next Generation of Leaders, 2013: Chosen by Crain’s Businessweek as 1 of 40 innovators at the top of their field under 40
9. Ashoka U-Cordes Innovation Award, 2013: Recognized by Ashoka U for high impact and highly replicable education innovation
10. Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Chair in Design, 2012: Appointed as an Endowed Chair in Design in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
11. Core 77 Notable Professional Award for Design for Social Impact, 2012: Design for America recognized for excellence in design for social impact building cohorts, infrastructure, and tools

 Honors and Distinctions

1. Northwestern’s Meshii Award 2018: Selected as the faculty of excellence in design education.
2. Northwestern’s Digital Learning Fellow, 2016: Selected as one of fifteen faculty to enhance digital efforts to enhance teaching and learning.
3. Northwestern’s Association for Student Government Academic Honor Roll, 2014: Voted by the Northwestern student body for consistently and excitedly enriching the student experience.
4. Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship, 2014: Selected by the Grace Hopper Women in Computing Celebration Committee as a model faculty in computing at the Celebration
5. Northwestern’s National Academy of Engineering’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Representative, 2013: Selected as the faculty to represent Northwestern among a select group of emerging engineering leaders from industry, academe, and government labs to discuss pioneering technical work and leading-edge research.
6. Northwestern’s OpEd Project’s Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellow, 2012: Selected as one of twenty faculty to dramatically increase the public impact of our nation’s top underrepresented thinkers, and to ensure our ideas help shape the important conversations of our age.
7. Public Interest Design Top 100 People, 2012: Acknowledged by Public Internet Design blog as one of 100 advocates, communicators, funders, makers, and others shaping our world
8. Northwestern’s National Academy of Engineering’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium Representative, 2011: Selected as the faculty to represent Northwestern at annual symposium bringing together engaged and innovative engineering educators to recognize, reward, and promote effective, substantive, and inspirational engineering education
9. Searle Teaching Fellow at Northwestern University, 2009: Nominated by Department Chair for potential to contribute to teaching and scholarship at Northwestern.

Institution Building

1. External Academic Advisory Council, University of California, Berkeley Jacobs Institute of Design, 2017-present
2. Design for America, 2007-present, Co-founded Design for America with three students. Designed and implemented strategic direction, development, and operations for national network of 38 university chapters, thousands of project partners, project mentors
3. Design for Northwestern, 2015-present, Established strategic direction and implementation plan for exposing design to 7 colleges across the University.  Designed and led San Francisco Innovation Immersion Program
4. Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (“the d.school”), 2002-2008, Established the business and design initiative with Prof. Bob Sutton and IDEO partner Diego Rodriguez. Co-developed first executive education program, doctoral student program, and research initiatives.
5. Sontag’s Center for Creativity at The Claremont Colleges (“The Hive”), 2014-2016, Led Claremont College presidents, faculty, and funders through strategic planning process for interdisciplinary creativity center across 5 colleges.

Conference Proceedings (Long Papers)

Foong, E., & Gerber, E. Understanding Gender Differences in Pricing Strategies in Online Labor Marketplaces, Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, ACM Press, 2021*Best Paper Honorable Mention Foong, E., Kim, J., Dontcheva, M., & Gerber, E., Crowdfolio: Understanding How Holistic and Decomposed Workflows Influence Feedback on Online Portfolios, Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, 2021 Carlson, S. Rees-Lewis, D., Maliakal, L., Easterday, M., Gerber, E., Supporting Knowledge of Design Risks in Collective Intelligence Efforts, Proceedings of Collective Intelligence, ACM Press, 2020 Rees-Lewis, D., Carlson, S., Lu, K., Riesbeck, C., Easterday, M., & Gerber, E., Logic of Effective Iteration in Design-Based Research, International Society of Learning Sciences, 2020 Mueller, F., Lopes, P., Strohmeier, P., Ju, W., Seim, C., Weigel, M. Nanayakkara, S., Obrist, M., Li, Z., Delfa, J., Nishida, J., Gerber, E., Svanes, D., Grudin, J., Greuter, S., Kunze, K., Erickson, T., Greenspan, S., Inami, M., Marshall, J., Reiterer, H., Wolf, K., Meyer, J., Schiphorst, T., Maes, P., Next Steps for Human-Computer Integration, Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, ACM Press, 2020 Rees-Lewis, D., Carlson, S., Lu, K., Riesbeck, C., Easterday, M., & Gerber, E., Logic of Effective Iteration in Design-Based Research, Proceedings of International Society of Learning Sciences, 2020 Mueller, F. et al. Next Steps for Human-Computer Integration: Challenges and Opportunities, Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, 2020 Rees-Lewis, D., Gerber, E., & Easterday, M., StandUp: Engaging Professionals to Coach Design Projects, Proceedings of International Society of Learning Sciences, 2019 Rees-Lewis, D., Gerber, E., & Easterday, M. Assessing Iterative Planning for Real-world Design Teams, Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Learning, 2019 Hui, J., Gergle, D., & Gerber, E., IntroAssist: A Tool to Support Introductory Writing Requests,  Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, 2018 (pdf) Foong, E., Vincent, N., Hecht, B., Gerber, E. Women (Still) Ask for Less: Gender Differences in Hourly Rate in an Online Labor Marketplace. Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, 2018 Roldan, W., Hui, J., & Gerber, E. University Makerspaces: Opportunities to Support Equitable Participation for Women in Engineering,  Proceedings of Harvey Mudd Engineering Design Workshop (pdf) Foong, E., Gergle, D., & Gerber, E. Novice and Expert Sensemaking of Crowdsourced Feedback, Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, 2018. Yen, Y., Dow, S., Gerber, E., Bailey, B. Listen to Others, Listen to Yourself: Combining Feedback Review and Reflection to Improve Iterative Design,  Proceedings of Creativity and Cognition, ACM Press, 2017. (pdf) Krause, M., Gerber, E., Bailey, B., & Dow, S., Critique Style Guide: Improving Crowdsourced Design Feedback with a Natural Language Model, Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, ACM Press, 2017 Wauck, H., Yen, Y., Fu, W., Gerber, E., Dow, S., & Bailey, B. From in the Class or in the Wild? Peers Provide Better Design Feedback Than External Crowds, Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, ACM Press, 2017. Foong, E., Dow, S., Bailey, B., & Gerber, E. Online Feedback Exchange: A Framework for Understanding the Socio-Psychological Factors, Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, ACM Press, 2017. (pdf) Hui, J., & Gerber, E., Developing Makerspaces as Sites of Entrepreneurship In Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, 2017. Kim, Y., Shaw, A., Zhang, H. & Gerber, E., Understanding Trust amid Delays in Crowdfunding. In Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, 2017. Zhang, H., Maliakal, L., Rees-Lewis, D., Easterday, M., & Gerber, E., Agile Research Studios: Orchestrating Communities of Practice to Advance Research Training. In Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, 2017. Kim, Y., Harburg, E., Azria, S., Shaw, A., Gerber, E., Gergle, D., & Zhang, H. Studying the Effects of Task Notification Policies on Participation and Outcomes in On-the-go Crowdsourcing, In Proceedings of Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, AAAI Press, 2016. Yen, Y. Dow, S., Gerber, E., Bailey, S. (2016) Social Network, Web Forum, or Task Market? Comparing Different Crowd Genres For Design Feedback Exchange. In Proceedings of Design of Interactive Systems, ACM Press. Smirnov, N., Gerber, E., &, Easterday, M., (2016) The Benefits of SINs: Scaling Studio-Based Learning through Social Innovation Networks  in Proceedings of International Conference on Learning Sciences, June 20-24, Singapore. Easterday, M. W., Rees Lewis, D., & Gerber, E. M. (2015). The theoretical products of design research. In the 11th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, June 7-11, Göteborg, Switzerland, 2015 Hui, J., Jue, R., Glenn, A., Gerber, E., Dow, S. Using Anonymity and Communal Efforts to Improve Quality of Crowdsourced Feedback. in Proceedings of Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, AAAI Press, 2015 Greenberg, M., Gerber, E., and Easterday, M. Critiki: A Scaffolded Approach to Gathering Design Feedback from Paid Crowdworkers. Proceedings of Creativity and Cognition, ACM Press, 2015 Rees Lewis, D., Harburg, E., Easterday, M., and Gerber. E. Building Help-seeking Tools for Novice Designers. The Proceedings of Creativity and Cognition, ACM Press, 2015 Hui, J., and Gerber, E. Crowdfunding for Science: Sharing Research with an Extended Audience. in Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, 2015 Harburg, E., Hui, J., Greenberg, M. Gerber, E., Understanding the Effects of Crowdfunding on Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy. in Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, 2015 Hui, J., Gerber, E., and Dow, S. Crowd-Based Design Activities: Helping Students to Access Users Online. In Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems, ACM Press, 2014 Easterday, M. Rees Lewis, D., Fitzpatrick, C., and Gerber, E. Computer Supported Novice Group Critique. In Proceedings of Design of Interactive Systems, ACM Press, 2014 Easterday, M., Rees Lewis, D., and Gerber, E. The Phases of Design Based Research. in Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Sciences, ISLS Press, 2014 (pdf) Dontcheva, M., Brandt, J., Morris, R., and Gerber, E. Combining Crowdsourcing and Learning to Improve Engagement and Performance. in Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, ACM Press, 2014 Greenberg, M. and Gerber, E. Learning to Fail: Experiencing Public Failure Online Through Crowdfunding. in Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, ACM Press, 2014 Miller, R., Zhang, H., Gilbert, E., and Gerber, E. Pair Research: Matching People for Collaboration, Learning, and Productivity. in Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, 2014 Hui, J., Greenberg, M, and Gerber, E. Understanding the Role of Community in Crowdfunding Work. in Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, 2014 (*Best Paper Honorable Mention) Morris, R. Dontcheva, M., Finkelstein, A., and Gerber, E. Affect and Creative Performance on Crowdsourcing Platforms. in Proceedings of Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Conference, IEEE Press, 2013 Dow, S., Gerber, E., and Wong, A. A Pilot Study of Using Crowds in the Classroom. in Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, ACM Press, 2013 Kittur, N., Bernstein, M., Nickerson, J., Gerber, E., Shaw, A., Lease, M., Zimmerman, J., and Horton, J. The Future of Crowd Work. in Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press, 2013 Gerber, E. Tech Break Ups: A Research Tool for Understanding People’s Attachment to Their Technology. in Proceedings of Creativity and Cognition, ACM Press, 2011 Gerber, E. The Psychological Experience of User Observation. in Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, 2011 Lewis, S., Dontcheva, M., and Gerber, E. Affective Computational Priming and Creativity. in Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, ACM Press, 2011 Gerber, E. Using Improvisation To Enhance the Effectiveness of Brainstorming. in Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, ACM Press, 2009 Gerber, E. Improvisation Principles and Techniques for Design. in Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, ACM Press, 2007 Gerber, E., Relations in Design Thinking: A Case Study of a Social Network. in Proceedings of the Academy of Management, Technology and Innovation, Management Division, 2006 *Best Paper Award Nomination

Conference Proceedings (Short Papers), Selected O’Rourke, E., Gerber, E., Easterday, M., Zhang, H. Towards Scaling the Depth and Equity of Desired Outcomes in HCI,Proceedings of Human Computer Interaction Consortium, 2021. Carberry, A., Gerber, E., Martin, C. Measuring Innovation Self-Efficacy, Proceedings of Harvey Mudd Design Workshop, 2017. Roldan, W., Hui, J., & Gerber, E., University Makerspaces: Opportunities to Support Equitable Participation for Women in Engineering, Proceedings of Harvey Mudd Design Workshop, 2017. Porter, E., Bopp, C., Gerber, E., & Voida, A. Reappropriating Hackathons: The Production Work of the CHI4Good Day of Service, Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, ACM Press, 2017 Easterday, M. W., Rees Lewis, D., & Gerber, E. M. The theoretical products of design research. In the 11th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, June 7-11, Göteborg, Switzerland, 2015 Easterday, M. W., Rees Lewis, D., & Gerber, E. M. Crowdsourcing Critique.  In CSCL Crowd 2015, a Workshop at the 11th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, June 7-11. Göteborg, Switzerland, 2015 Rees-Lewis, D., Gerber, E., & Easterday, M. Supporting Project Scoping: The Scoping Wheel, in Proceedings of Harvey Mudd Design Workshop IX, 2015 Gerber, E., & Easterday, M. Social Innovation Networks: Process, Model, and Outcomes,in Proceedings of Harvey Mudd Design Workshop IX, 2015 Hui, J., Gerber, E., and Gergle, D. Understanding and Leveraging Social Networks for Crowdfunding: Opportunities and Challenges in Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems, ACM Press, 2014 Bao, P., Gerber, E., Gergle, D., and Hoffman D. Momentum: Getting and Staying on Topic During a Brainstorm. in Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction, ACM Press, 2010 Chung, H. and Gerber, E., Emotional-Storyboarding: A Participatory Method for Emotional Designing for Children in Proceedings of the International Conference on Design & Emotion, Design and Emotion Society, 2010

Journal Publications

1. Lu, K. Carlson, S., Gerber, E., Easterday, M. Scoping Deliberations, Instructional Science, 2023 pdf
2. Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, Nathan Semertzidis, Josh Andres, Martin Weigel, Suranga Nanayakkara, Rakesh Patibanda, Zhuying Li, Paul Strohmeier, Jarrod Knibbe, Stefan Greuter, Marianna Obrist, Pattie Maes, Dakuo Wang, Katrin Wolf, Liz Gerber, Joe Marshall, Kai Kunze, Jonathan Grudin, Harald Reiterer and Richard Byrne (2022), “Human–Computer Integration: Towards Integrating the Human Body with the Computational Machine”, Foundations and Trends® in Human-Computer Interaction: Vol. 16: No. 1, pp 1-64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1100000086
3. Carlson, S., Rees Lewis, D., Maliakal, L, Gerber, E., & Easterday, M., The design risks framework: Understanding metacognition for iteration, Design Studies, 2020
4. Hui, J., Easterday, M. & Gerber, E., Distributed Apprenticeship in Online Communities, Journal of Human Computer Interaction, 2019
5. Harburg, E., Rees Lewis, D., Easterday, M. & Gerber, E. CheerOn: An Online Social Support System for Project-Based Learning Teams, Transactions on Computer Human Interactions, 2018
6. Hui, J., Easterday, M., & Gerber, E.,  Distributed Apprenticeship in Online Communities.  Journal of Human Computer Interaction, 2018
7. Rees Lewis, D., Easterday, M., Harburg, E., Gerber, E., Riesbeck, C. Overcoming barriers between volunteer professionals advising project based learning teams with regulation tools, British Journal of Educational Technology, 49, 3, 2018
8. Carlson, S., Rees Lewis, D., Gerber, E., & Easterday, M., Challenges of peer instruction in an undergraduate student-led learning community: bi-directional diffusion as a crucial instructional process, Instructional Science, 2018
9. Carberry, A., & Gerber. E., Martin, C. Developing a Measure of Innovation Self-Efficacy, International Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
10. Roldan, W., Hui, J., & Gerber, E. University Makerspaces: Opportunities to Support Equitable Participation for Women in Engineering,  International Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
11. Smirnov, N., Easterday, E., & Gerber, E., Infrastructuring distributed studio networks: A case study and design principles. Journal of Learning Sciences, 2018
12. Easterday, M., Gerber, E., & Rees Lewis, D. Social Innovation Networks: A New Approach to Social Innovation to Social Design Education and Impact, Design Issues, 2018
13. Rees Lewis, D., Easterday, M., Riesbeck, C., Harburg, E., & Gerber, E. M., Overcoming Barriers Between Volunteer Professionals Advising Project-Based Learning Teams with Regulation Tools. British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
14. Easterday, M. W., Rees Lewis, D., & Gerber, E. M., Designing Crowdcritique systems for Formative Feedback. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2016
15. Easterday, M. W., Rees Lewis, D., & Gerber, E. M. The Logic of the Theoretical and Practical Products of Design Research. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
16. Gerber, E., and Hui, J. Crowdfunding: Motivations and Deterrents for Participation. Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 20 (6), 2013
17. Gerber, E. and Carroll, M. The Psychological Experience of Prototyping. Design Studies, Vol. 33 (1), 2012
18. Leonardi, P. Beyene, T. and Gerber, E. How Managers Use Multiple Media: 
Discrepant Events, Power, and Timing in Redundant Communication. Organization Science, Vol. 23 (1), 2012
19. Gerber, E., Olson, J., and Komarek, R. Extracurricular Design-Based Learning: Preparing Students for Careers in Innovation. International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 28 (2), 2012
20. Gerber, E. and Kennedy, C. Supporting Creativity in Web-Based Services. International Journal of Design, Vol. 16 (1), 2012
21. Gerber, E., McKenna, A., Hirsch, P. and Yarnoff, C. Learning to Waste – Wasting to Learn? How to Use Cradle to Cradle Principles to Improve the Teaching of Design. International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 26 (2), 2010

Trade Publications

1. Gerber, E. Making Social Impact Commonplace. ACM Interactions, ACM Press, forcoming
2. Gerber, E. Design for America: Organizing for Civic Innovation. ACM Interactions, ACM Press, 2014
3. Shaw, A., Zhang, H., Monroy-Hernandez, A., Munson, S., Hill, B., Gerber, E., Kinnaird, P., and Minder, P. Computer Supported Cooperative Action. ACM Interactions, ACM Press, 2014
4. Morris, R., Dontcheva, M., and Gerber, E. Priming for Better Performance in Micro-Task Crowdsourcing Environments. IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Press, 2012

Popular Publications and OpEds (Selected)

1. Gerber, E., What does trust look like before, during, and after the pandemic? LinkedIn, 2020
2. Gerber, E., 4 Starting Points to Impact: Systems thinking, Mutual Understanding, Ask Why, and Show Up, LinkedIn, 2019
3. Gerber, E., 4 Emergent Truths about the Human/Tech Relationship, Medium, 2019
4. Gerber, E., 8 Steps to Running a Successful Design Thinking Workshop, Medium, 2018
5. Gerber, E., 4 Essential Mindsets to Design Thinking, Huffington Post, 2017
6. Gerber, E., Hackathons: 6 Alternative Outcomes, Huffington Post, 2017
7. Gerber, E. Engineers Should be Taught to Fight Medium, 2016
8. Gerber, E., How Does Language Influences Who Innovates? Huffington Post, 2016
9. Rodriguez, D. and Gerber, E. Creativity at Work, LinkedIn, 2014 (7,962 views)
10. Gerber, E., What Entrepreneurs can learn from the Olympic Snowflake, Wall Street Journal, 2014
11. Gerber, E. STEM Students Must Be Taught to Fail, US News and World Report, 2013
12. Gerber, E. Does Crowdfunding Failing Some of the Most Promising Entrepreneurs, Huffington Post, 2013
13. Gerber, E. Why Do People Give to Crowdfunding Sites, NPR Marketplace, 2013 (48,638 views)
14. Gerber, E. 4 Daily Habits of Game Changing Social Innovators, Forbes.com, 2013 (9,104 views)
15. Gerber, E. Design for America: A Network of Students and Designers Solving Real World Problems, Good Magazine, 2013
16. Gerber, E., Insights Per Minute: Liz Gerber on Feedback, Design Observer, 2013 (1,561 views)
17. Gerber, E., Trifecta of Feedback, Design Observer, 2013
18. Gerber, E. Innovation Self-Efficacy: Fostering Beliefs in Our Ability Through and By Design, Core77, 2011

Book Chapters

1. Gerber, E. Scaling In Turakhia, D. Foundations and Trends Issue on Reimagining Learning of Hands-on Creative and Maker Skills (to appear)
2. Easterday, M. & Gerber, E. The Premises of Design Research. In Shanahan, M.-C., Kim, B., Takeuchi, M.A., Koh, K., Preciado-Babb, A.P., & Sengupta, P. (Eds.)The Learning Sciences in Conversation: Theories, Methodologies, and Boundary Spaces (1st ed.). Routledge, 2022
3. Gerber, E., & Fu, F.  Monk, A. & Blythe, M., Improv for Designers, Funology, Springer Press (to appear)
4. Gerber, E. Leap Dialogues, Art Center College of Design, 2015
5. Gerber, E., & Hui, J. Crowdfunding: How and Why People Participate. International perspectives on Crowdfunding: positive, normative and critical theory, Emerald Press, 2015
6. Gerber, E. Using Improvisation to Enhance Brainstorming Sessions. Rotman on Design, Martin, R., and Christensen, K. Co-Editors, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 2013

Organized Workshops

1. Jacques, R., Luger, E., Grudin, J., Wang, D., Monroy- Hernandez, A., Folstad, A., Gerber, E. Conversational Agents: Acting on the Wave of Research and Development, ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction, Glasgow, UK, 2019
2. Pe-Than, E., Gerber, E., Fiore-Gartland, B. Moser, A., Herbsleb, J., Nolte, A., Chapman, B., Wilkins-Diehr, N. The 2nd Workshop on Hacking and Making at Time-Bounded Events: Current Trends and Next Steps in Research and Event Design, ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Montreal, 2018
3. O’Keefe, A., Hoffman, K., & Gerber, E. Mockups and Round Robin Feedback: Iterating Through Critique, Venture Well Open Conference, Portland, OR, 2016
4. Teevan, J., Shamsi, I., Cai, C., Bigham, J., Bernstein, M., Gerber, E., Productivity Decomposed: Getting Big Things Done with Little Microtasks, ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction, San Jose, CA, 2016
5. Kim, J., Laseki, W., Siangliulue, P., Zhang, H. and Gerber, E. Human Computation Crowdcamp. AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, Pittsburgh, PA, 2014
6. Carletti, L., Coughlan, T., Christensen, J., Gerber, E., Giannachi, G., Schutt, S., Sinker, R., Denner dos Santos, C. Structures for Knowledge: Co-Creations Between Organisations and the Public. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Baltimore, MD, 2014
7. Andre, P., Bingham, J., Chilton, L., Dontcheva, M., Gerber, E., and Gilbert, E. CrowdCamp: Rapidly Iterating Crowd Ideas. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, San Antonio, TX, 2013
8. Andre, P., Bernstein, M., Dontcheva, M., Gerber, E. Kittur, N., and Miller, R. Collective Intelligence Crowdcamp. ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction, Austin, TX, 2012

Organized Panels

1. Gerber, E., Chang, F., Liu, Co., Lucas, S., Schlesinger, Y., Vellos, K., Building the Commons, LinkedIn, San Francisco, 2020
2. Gerber, E., Nickerson, J., Dontcheva, M., Dabbish, L., & Hill, C. Collective Innovation in the Future of Work, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Austin, TX, 2019
3. Gerber, E., Oser, M., Carr-Jordan, E., Gomez Seidel, D., Digital Wellbeing: Regaining control over Tech. All Tech is Human, Seattle, WA, 2019
4. Gerber, E. Lee, A., Zivarts, A., & Aye, G. Design for Inclusion and Accessibility. All Tech is Human, Seattle, WA, 2019
5. Kreitzberg, C., Shneiderman, B., Gerber, E., Rosenzweig, E., Churchhill, E. HCI and UX in a Time of Digital Transformation: the Shift from Craft to Leadership, ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction, Glasgow, UK, 2019
6. Brandel, J., Breuer, R., Gerber, E., Kunesh, J., Lockhart, V., Lyons, G., Schilf, L., In a Rapidly Changing World, who is a Designer? Chicago Design Week, Chicago, IL, 2018
7. Hui, J., Gerber, E., Burnett, B., Dombrowski, L. Gray, M., & Salehi, N., Computer Supported Career Development in the Future of Work, ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction, Glasgow, UK, 2019
8. Gerber, E., Muller, M., Wash, R., Irani, L., Churchill, E., and Williams, A.  Crowdfunding: An Emerging Field of Research. ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction, Toronto, Canada, 2014
9. Jain, A., Kam, M., Best, M., Gerber, E., and Luk, R. Can you do good and do well? Exploring HCI Careers for Societal Impact.  ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction, Toronto, Canada, 2014
10. Bernstein, M., Bright, M., Cutrell, E., Dow, S., Gerber, E., Jain, A., and Kulkarni, A. Micro-volunteering: Helping the Helpers in Development.  ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Baltimore, MD, 2013

Products

1. Gerber, E. MockUps Game, 2017 *Worlds of Learning’s Top Ten Makerspace Favorites in 2018

Keynote Presentations

1. “Future of Hackathons” Hack the Hackathon: Shaping the Future of Hackathon Research and Practice, Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2021
2. “How We Make Impact,” ACM’s Conference on User Interactions, Software, and Technology, New Orleans, LA 2019
3. “Asking Why to Make Impact,” Code for America, Oakland, CA, 2019
4. “Building an Impactful Research Program,” Jacobs Foundation, Germany, 2018
5. “Collective Innovation: The Future of Hackathons” Workshop on Hackathons, Conference on Computer Human Interaction, 2018
6. “Building an Innovation Program,” Brown and the Innovation Economy, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2017
7. “The Future of Collective Innovation,” John Seeley Brown Symposium, School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2016

Invited Talks

“The Future of Social Impact Work in Human Computer Interaction,” ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 2022 “Communicating Your Research,” MTSB lunch lecture series, Northwestern University, 2022 “Imagining What’s Next for Design Education,” Austin Design Week, 2021 “Developing Networks for Social Innovation,” Guests and Gusto, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2021 “How We Make Impact” Design Conversations, Jacobs Institute of Design, University of California, Berkeley, 2021 “Future of Design Education,” She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation Switzerland, 2021 “Loft Digital Studio: Technology to Support Improvement in Networked Improvement Communities,” Carnegie Summit, Stanford, CA 2020 “Social Innovation,” Illinois Institute of Design, Chicago, IL, 2019 “Social Impact and Design,” Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards, 2018 “Collective Innovation,” Keynote speaker, AIGA Make Design Educator’s Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2018 “Scaling Up Innovation” Keynote speaker, Conference on Human Computer Interaction Workshop on Hackathons, Montreal, Quebec, 2018 “Scaling Up Innovation,” Jones Seminar Series, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2017 “Scaling Up Innovation Through Collective Innovation,” School of Education, Stanford, CA, 2017 “The Future of Collective Innovation,” Creative Technology Lab, Adobe Research, San Francisco, CA, 2017 “The Future of Collective Innovation, ” Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2017 “The Future of Collective Innovation, ” University of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 2017 “Social Innovation Networks,” Smith College, MA, 2016 “The Future of Collective Innovation,” Jacob’s Design Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA , 2016 “Understanding and Designing for Collective Innovation,” Open and User Innovation Conference, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA, 2016 “The Future of Collective Innovation,” Collective Intelligence, New York, NY, 2016 “The Future of Collective Innovation,” Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research, Evanston, IL, 2016 “Return on Innovation,” Sandbox, MIT, Cambridge, MA 2016 “Organizations and Technology to Empower Collective Innovation,” CSCW at Scale, School of Information, University of Michigan, 2016 “Mockups & Round Robin Feedback: Iterating through Critique,” Venture Well, Open Conference, Portland, OR, 2016 “End of Education, Future of Learning” Family Action Network, Evanston, IL, 2016 “Organizations and Technology to Empower Collective Innovation,” NYU Stern Business School, 2015 “Faculty Experiences with Assessment,” Norhtwestern’s Searle Center for Teaching and Learning, 2015 “Next Wave of Impact in Higher Ed: Preparing Students for World-Changing Careers,” Net Impact, Seattle, Washington, 2015 “Human Centered Innovation,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2015 “Best Practices for Academic Maker Spaces,” Venture Well, Open Conference, Washington, DC, 2015 “Research Based Program Assessment: Measuring Innovation Self Efficacy,” Venture Well, Open Conference, Washington, DC, 2015 “Do-it-Together: Opportunities and Challenges for Collective Innovation,” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2015 “Organizations and Technology to Empower Collective Innovation,” DUB, Human Centered Design and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2014 “Crowds, Computers, and Creativity: The Future of Design,” University of California, Berkeley Design Institute, Berkeley, CA, 2014 “Crowdfunding Creative Work,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2013 “The Role of Social Computing in Innovation,” Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 2013 “Crowds, Computers, and Community: The Future of Design,” University of California, San Diego, CA, 2013 “Crowds, Computers, and Community: Understanding How Innovation Happens,” University of California, Irvine, CA, 2013 “Understanding the Role of Crowdfunding in Innovation,” Penn State, College Station, PA, 2013 “Educating the Next Generation of Social Impact Designers”, National Endowment for the Arts, New Haven, CT, 2013 “Micro-volunteering: Helping the Helpers in Development,” Computer Supported Cooperative Work, San Antonio, TX, 2013 “Crowdsourcing and Innovation,” Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2013 “Design-It-Together: The Role of Crowdsourcing in Innovation, Media, Technology, and Society, Northwestern, Evanston, IL, 2012 “The Design-It-Together Movement,” TedX, University of Chicago, IL, 2012 “The Design-It-Together Movement: The Case of Design for America,” Industrial Designers Society of America, Midwest Conference, Chicago, IL, 2012 “Innovation Self-Efficacy: Changing People’s Beliefs Through and By Design,” School of Design, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, 2012 “Innovation Self-Efficacy: Changing People’s Beliefs Through and By Design,” Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2012 “Positive Innovation: Helping People Thrive Through and By Design” Segal Design Institute, Northwestern, Evanston, IL, 2011 “Affective Computational Priming” School of Education and Public Policy,” Northwestern, Evanston, IL, 2011 “Technology that Motivates Innovation: Influencing Autonomy, Connectedness, and Competence,” School of Communications, Northwestern, Evanston, IL, 2011 “Technology, Affect, and Creative Problem Solving” Human Computer Interaction Institute Seminar Series, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, 2011 “Positive Design: Helping People Thrive Through and By Design,” College of Human Ecology, Cornell, Ithaca, IL, 2011 “Positive Design & Innovation,” Colleges of Business and College of Human Ecology, Cornell, Ithaca, NY, 2011 “Technology, Affect, and Creative Problem Solving,” HCI Seminar Series, University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, IL, 2011 “Using Technology to Motivate Creative Action,” Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series, MIT, Cambridge MA, 2011 “Technology that Activates: Priming Emotion and Achieving Goals,” Computer Science Seminar Series, Tufts University, Somerville, MA, 2011 “Using Technology to Motivate Creative Action,” Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series, MIT, Cambridge MA, 2011 “Using Technology to Motivate Creative Action,”HCI Seminar Series, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2011 “Design for America: Changing People’s Beliefs in Themselves Through and By Design,” CUSP Conference: The Design of Everything, Chicago, IL, 2010 “Design for America: Thinking about Innovation Education Outside of the Box,” Design Chicago, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2010 “Designing for Engagement,” Jones Lecture Series, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2010 “Innovation Processes and Spaces,” Innovator Lecture Series, Management, Learning, and Organizational Change, Northwestern University and Catalyst Ranch, Chicago, IL, 2009 “Devotion to an Innovation Process: The Case of Human Centered Design,” MIT Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2008 “Devotion to an Innovation Process: The Case of Human Centered Design,” Segal Institute of Design, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2008 “Devotion to an Innovation Process: The Case of Human Centered Design,” Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 2007 “Observation as a Tool for Designing for Extreme Affordability,” Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2007 “Storytelling as a Tool for Design,” Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2006 “Improvisation in Design,” Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2006 “The Birth of a Knowledge Broker,” Department of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2006 “Sharing Creative Control” Department of Management Science & Engineering, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2006 “The Unintended Consequences of Management” Department of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2005

Selected Press Coverage

1. Crowdfunding, The Guardian, 2019
2. Protecting the Wheelchair on a Commercial Flight, Directions: The Official Publication of the National Registry of Rehabilitation Technology Suppliers, Vol.2, 2019
3. Sproutel:  How Design Roadmapping Helped Improved Children’s Health and Guide a Growing Company, Harvard Business Review, 2018
4. Affordability, campus environment top campus stressors, Education Dive, 2017
5. The Rise of Public Sector Crowdfunding, The Atlantic’s City Lab, 2017
6. Chicago Entrepreneurs Shed Light on Preventing Elderly Falls , Chicago Tonight, 2017
7. Crowdfunding, NPR’s Marketplace, 2017
8. Chicago Students Head West for Tech Culture Immersion, Chicago Inno, 2017
9.  40 under 40 , Impactdesignhub.org, 2016
10. How Crowdfunding Influences Innovation, Sloan Management Review, 2016
11. Mettre de soi dans un projet, Hemispheres, 2016
12. Have We Reached the End of Education as We Know It? The Nation’s Top Experts Sound Off, Make it Better, 2016
13. EDI Class Helps Reimagine Laundry, Northwestern, 2016
14. The Uncertain World of Crowdfunding Your Day in Court, Wired, 2015
15. Design for America Students Help Those Living with Down Syndrome, ABC News, 2015
16. How Are Universities Grooming the Next Great Innovators? Smithsonian Magazine, 2015
17. How Crowdworkers became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine. The Nation, 2014
18. Big Kickstarter Campaign Overwhelms Radiate Athletics.  The Wall Street Journal, 2014
19. Design for America. Big Ten Network: Live Big, 2014
20. It’s Not Nagging: The Power of Persistent Redundant Communication.  Forbes, 2013
21. The Millennials.  Architect Magazine, 2013
22. The Unregulated Work of Mechanical Turk.  New York Times, 2013
23. 40 under 40: Meet Chicago’s Next Generation of Leaders. Crain’s Chicago Business Week, 2013
24. Scientists Experiment with Crowdfunding. Physics Today, 2013
25. Engaging Online Crowds in the Classroom Could Be An Important Tool for Teaching Innovation. Communications of the ACM, 2013
26. Got a Kickstarter Project? This Man Can Predict Within Four Hours If It Will Fail. The Guardian, 2013
27. Tool Accurately Predicts Whether a Kickstarter Project Will Fail. Popular Science, 2013
28. Crowdfunding. ABC News, 2012
29. Crowdfunding. Toronto Star, 2012
30. Genius Idea: Design that Helps Us Thrive. Oprah Magazine, 2012
31. Top 100 in Public Interest Design. Public Interest Design, 2012
32. Best of 2012: Visionaries, Organizations, and Innovations Changing the Way we Learn. Good Magazine, 2012
33. What Makes a Kickstarter Campaign Successful. Socialtimes.com, 2012
34. Teaching Entrepreneurs Crowdfunding Strategies. Crowdsourcing.org, 2012
35. It’s Not Nagging. Why Persistent Redundant Communication Works. Harvard Working Knowledge, 2011
36. The United States of Design. Fast Company, 2011
37. Millennials Are the MacGyvers of Business. Harvard Business Review Blog, 2011
38. Should design be taught as an entrepreneurial skill? Smartplanet.com, 2011
39. Spotlight on Design. Core77, 
2011

External Grants Awarded

1. Gerber, E. (PI) Collection Innovation, Adobe Research Award ($15,000)
2. Zhang, H., Easterday, M., (Co-PI), & Gerber, E., (Co-PI) NSF EXP: Cyberlearning: Agile Research Studios ($549,994)
3. Bailey, B. (PI), Gerber (Co-PI), Dow (Co-PI) Cyberlearning: CRAFT. National Science Foundation 2015-2018
4. Gerber, E. (PI), Easterday, M. (Co-PI) Cyberlearning: Digital Lofts. National Science Foundation, 2015-2018
5. Gerber, E. (PI) Rees-Lewis, D. (Co-PI), Easterday, M. (Co-PI), Coney, J. iCorps: The Loft: A Learning Platform for Instructors and Trainers, National Science Foundation,IIP-1550565, 2015-2016, ($50,000)
6. Gerber, E. (PI) A Networking Curriculum to Enhance Entrepreneurship Education. Venture Well. 2015-2016 ($12,000)
7. Zhang, H. (PI), Shaw, A. (Co-PI), & Gerber, E. (Co-PI) Sharing Human-powered Mobility to Improve Societal Efficacy and Efficiency. Microsoft Fuse Labs Research Award, 2014-2015 ($35,000)
8. Gerber, E. (PI) A Ptich Curriculum to Enhance Entrepreneurship Education. Venture Well. 2014-2015 ($12,000)
9. Gerber, E. (PI) & Dow, S. (Co-PI) Cyberlearning: Engaging Interdisciplinary Students in Innovation Education through Crowd-based Technology. National Science Foundation 2012-2015 ($563,000)
10. Easterday, M. (PI) & Gerber, E. (Co-PI) Cyberlearning: Digital Lofts: Online Learning Environments for Real-World Innovation. National Science Foundation, 2013-2015 ($540,000)
11. Gerber, E. (PI), Rees Lewis, D. (Co-PI), Shyrokova, A. (Co-PI), Lesser, J. (Co-PI), Arora, R. (Co-PI), Ma, S. (Co-PI), Nerenberg, S. (Co-PI) Design for America: A Badge Community for Innovation. Hastac Digital Media Learning Grant supported by the MacArthur and Mozilla Foundations, 2012-2013 ($175,000)
12. Chen, W. (PI), Gatchell, D. (Co-PI), Gerber, E. (Co-PI) TUES Type 2: Collaborative Research: The Institutionalization and Sustainability of Product Archaeology – A National Rollout Plan, National Science Foundation, 2012-2014
13. Chen, W. (PI) Colgate, E., Norman, D., McKenna, A., Gerber, E. (Co-PI) NSF Workshop on Driving Innovation Through Design: Engineering in the 21st Century, National Science Foundation, 2010-2011 ($25,000)

Sponsored Design Projects (selected)

1. Gerber, E. (PI) Recycling Plastic Bottles, Flexible Film Recycling Group/American Chemistry Council 2019- ($75,000)
2. Gerber, E. (PI) Recruiting and Training Lifeguards, YMCA, 2018-2020 ($142,000)
3. Gerber. E. (PI) Increasing Food Security on Campus, Compass, 2018
4. Gerber, E. (PI) Increasing Pedestrian Safety, FIAT Chrysler, 2018
5. Gerber, E. (PI) Increasing Campus Well Being, Sodexo, 2017

Internal Grants Awarded

1. Easterday M. (PI) & Gerber, E. (co-PI) CRIT: Computer-Supported Large Group Feedback, 2018-2019, ($50,000)
2. Worsley, M. (PI), Piper, A., (co-PI), & Gerber, E. (co-PI), Making and Inclusivity: Provost’s Grants for Faculty Innovation in Diversity and Equity, 2017-2018, ($14,000)
3. Zhang, H., (PI) & Gerber, E. (co-PI). Pair Research: Matching People for Collaboration, Learning, and Productivity, Provost’s Digital/Online Projects ($20,000)
4. Gerber, E. (PI) A Crowdfunding Curriculum to Enhance Entrepreneurship Education. Northwestern’s Alumnae Curriculum Development Award, 2014-2015 ($12,000)
5. Gerber, E. (PI) Design for America. Northwestern’s Murphy Society Grant, 2009-2012, ($105,000)
6. Gerber, E. (PI) Crowdfunding. Allen and Johnnie Breed University Professorship Fund, 2013-2015, ($10,000)
7. Gerber, E. (PI) Collective Innovation. Northwestern’s New Faculty Start Up Grant, 2008-2013

Teaching Experience

Segal Institute of Design, Mechanical Engineering, Communication Studies, Northwestern University

1. DSGN 106: Design Thinking and Communication – Overall Rating of Instruction 5.1/6.0
2. DSGN 305: Human Centered Service Design  – Overall Rating of Instruction 5.9/6.0
3. DSGN 401-3: Human Centered Service Design – Overall Rating of Instruction 5.2/6.0
4. DSGN 495: Business and Design Integration Project  – Overall Rating of Instruction 5.5/6.0
5. MTS: Design Research Seminar – Overall Rating of Instruction 6.0/6.0
6. MTS 525: Communication Design – Overall Rating of Instruction 6.0/6.0

Kellogg Executive Education, Northwestern University

1. Non Profit Executive Education on Generating Ideas with Your Team –Overall Rating of Instruction 5.0/5.0
2. Non Profit Executive Education on Learning through Experimentation
3. Executive Education Program on Design Thinking – Overall Rating of Instruction 8.0/10.0

MOOC Coursera

1. Organizational Leadership: Leading Design Innovation –Overall Rating of Instruction 4.2/5.0
2. Experience Design: User Research and Prototyping – Overall Rating of Instruction 4.6/5.0

Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University

1. Executive Education Program on Innovation Leadership
2. Executive Education Program on Human Centered Innovation
3. Executive Education Program on Customer Focused Innovation
4. Business Process Innovation: Treating the Organization as a Prototype
5. Creating Infectious Action: Integrating Design Thinking and Business
6. Clicks n’ Bricks: Creating Mass Market Experiences Using Design
7. Adventures in Design Thinking Graduate School Workshop

Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University

1. Organizational Behavior
2. Creativity and Innovation

Joint Program in Design in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

1. Advanced Product Design: Implementation
2. Advanced Product Design: Needfinding
3. Ambidextrous Thinking

Course partners include: Proctor & Gamble, Jet Blue, Disney, Fidelity, Walmart, Mozilla, Kohl’s Children’s Museum, Abbott Laboratories, Erie Community Health Center, Kaiser Permanente, Samsung, British Petroleum, and others.

Student Supervision

Ph.D. Thesis Advisor

1. Kristine Lu, Designing a Collective Intelligence System to Support Participative Decision-Making, Learning Sciences, PhD expected in 2021
2. Spencer Carlson, Deliberation Tools, Learning Sciences, PhD expected in 2020
3. Eureka Foong, Online Feedback Exchange, Technology and Social Behavior, PhD expected in 2020
4. Emily Harburg, Help-seeking in Online Communities, Technology and Social Behavior, PhD expected in 2018
5. Daniel Rees Lewis, Case Base Reasoning in Civic Innovation, Learning Sciences, PhD expected in 2018
6. Julie Hui, A Network Perspective on Crowdfunding, Mechanical Engineering, Post doctoral scholar, University of Michigan

Ph.D. Rotation Advisor

To allow Ph.D. students to understand and participate in technological developments in their broadest possible contexts, we encourage students to rotate across labs in Design, Social Sciences, Computer Science.  I regularly serve as a Rotation Advisor in Design.

1. Eleanor Burgess, Understanding Design Research, PhD expected in 2021
2. Yongsung Kim, Understanding Trust in Crowdfunding, PhD expected in 2019
3. Gulu Saiyed, Using Social Media to Promote Designer Empathy, Learning Sciences, PhD expected in 2018
4. Anna Bethune, Leadership Laddering in Civic Innovation, Learning Sciences, PhD expected in 2018
5. Colin Fitzpatrick, Computer Supported Novice Critique, PhD expected in 2017 (UX Research, Facebook)
6. Briam Remy, Crowdfunding the University, PhD expected in 2017
7. Pei-Yi Kuo, Communication in Crowdfunding, PhD expected in 2017
8. Patti Bao, Sharing Insight Provenance in collaborative visual analytics, PhD completed in 2013 (UX Researcher, Google)
9. Sheena Lewis, Affective Computational Priming and Creativity, PhD completed in 2013 (Computer Science Faculty, DePaul University)

Master’s Students Projects

1. Michael Greenberg, Recruitment and Retention in Crowdfunding Communities, Computer Science, Thesis, MS (UX Researcher, Facebook)
2. Claire McCloskey, Understanding Technology for Networking, Engineering Design and Innovation, MS independent study 2016 (User Experience Designer, IBM Design)
3. Joseph Shulman, Using Technology to Pair Teams, Learning Sciences, MS, MS independent study 2016 (User Experience Manager, Otus)
4. Peter Phelan, MS Learning Sciences, 2013 (Researcher, Garibay Group)
5. Liz Kramer, MS Engineering Design and Innovation, 2013 (Assistant Director of Design, University of Washington in St. Louis)
6. Rebecca Komarek, MS Learning Sciences, 2010 (PhD candidate, University of Colorado, Boulder)
7. Ben Schriesheim, MS Engineering Design and Innovation, 2009 (User Experience Designer, Solidworks)
8. Sarah Hulseman, MS Engineering Design and Innovation, 2009 (Mechanical Design Engineer, Proterra)

Design for America Post Bac Fellows

Post Bac Fellows work full time to build and support Design for America.

1. Ross Brunetti, Fellowship to be completed in 2020
2. Glory Wang, Fellowship to be completed in 2020
3. Irfan Ibrahim, 2019 (Graduate Student)
4. Kelly Wisneski,  2019  (Coordinator, Design for America)
5. Geneva Vest, 2018 (Project Coordinator, Trust for Public Land)
6. Ken Hunter, 2018 (Project Coordinator, Greenhouse Project)
7. Deniz Alpley, 2017 (UX consultant, Graveflex)
8. Michelle Braverman,  2017 (Design Analyst, Gensler)
9. Allison Cheng, 2016 (UX designer, Shure Incorporated
10. Catherine Chung, 2016 (Marketing Associate, DESIGNxRI)
11. Stacy Klingbeil,  2015 (Design Strategist)
12. Brandon Rivero-Melo,  2015 (Game Design Master’s Student, University of Utah)
13. Rob Calvey, 2015 (Design for America Learning Coordinator)
14. Julian Bongiorno,  2015, Co-founder Art-ly
15. Giselle Malina, 2014 (Medical School Student)
16. Thea Klein, 2013 (Garden Educator, Washington Youth Garden)
17. Kayla Matheus, 2013 (CEO, MOTI)
18. Yuri Malina,  2012 (COO, Swipesense)
19. Mert Iseri, 2012 (CEO, Swipesense)

BA/BS

1. Florence Fu, Improvisation for Designers, BA, 2018 (Editorial Assistant, Letterform Archive)
2. Wendy Roldan, Belonging in Makerspaces, BS, 2017 (PhD student, University of Washington)
3. Stephen Antonoplis, Identity and Crowdfunding, BS, 2016 (PhD student, University of California- Berkeley)
4. Elizabeth Jin Chou, Social Support Online, BS, 2016
5. Pratap Jayaram, Stigma and Entrepreneurship, BS, 2016
6. Sofia Sami, Online Feedback, BA ,2014
7. Hazel Yun, Crowdfunding Platforms, BS, 2016 (MS Student, Royal College of Art, Imperial College London)
8. Claire McCloskey, Collaboration in Digital Lofts, BS, 2016 (Designer, IBM)
9. Cassie Coravos, Communication in Digital Lofts, BS expected in 2016 (Fellow, Venture for America)
10. Bryan Berger, Social Computing and Innovation, BS, 2016 (Designer, 3M)
11. Nicole Chu, Crowdfunding Platforms, BS, 2015
12. Alan Besquin, Crowdfuding for Design, BS, 2014 (CEO, Startup)
13. Hannah Hudson, Crowds in the Classroom, BS, 2014 (Designer, Intuit)
14. Amy Laurin, The Role of Crowdfunding in Scientific Research, BS, 2013 (Associate Engineer, General Motors)
15. Jenny Braunstein, Murphy Scholar, Innovation Support Tools, BA, 2012 (Designer, Intuit)
16. Lauren Tindal, Motivations for Crowdfunding in Science, BA, 2014 (User Support, Box)
17. Megan Scherich, Running a Crowdfunding Campaign, BA, 2012 (Engineer, R&D, Care Fusion)
18. Hannah Chung, Emotional-Storyboarding: A Participatory Method for Emotional Designing for Children, BS, 2011 (CCO, Sproutel)
19. Molly Lafferty, Effects of Improvisation-based Warm-up Activities on Brainstorming Outcomes in Design Teams, BA, 2010 (Designer, This Also)
20. Tarresha Pointdexter, The Birth of a Knowledge Broker, BA, 2009 (Account Manager, Google)
21. David Hoffman, Momentum: Getting and Staying on Topic During a Brainstorm, BA, 2009 (Co-Founder and Head of Product Design, The Next Big Sound)

Honors, Distinctions, Patents, and Grants to Advisees (Selected)

1. MIT Design for America leader, Megan Yamoah, named as a Rhodes Scholar, 2019
2. MIT Design for America member, Connie Liu listed on Forbes 30 under 30 list for starting Project Invent, 2019
3. Kristine Yu selected as a senior Design Research Fellow, 2019
4. Hannah Chung’s and Aaron Horowitz’s innovation, My Special Aflac Duck, recognized as Time “Best Inventions, 2018
5. Design for America, Connie Liu, Bay Area Inspire Awards, 201
6. Design for America team, Pairwise raised $1 million in seed funding, 2018
7. Spencer Carlson selected as a Design Research Fellow, 2017
8. Design for America team, Luna Lights, selected for Health Box Incubator, 2014
9. The 2014 Good 100: Jerry the Bear, The Grateful Ted, Good Magazine, 2014
10. The 2014 Good 100: Yuri Malina, Germ Enemy, Good Magazine, 2014
11. Design for America team wins UIUC Chancellor’s Public Engagement Student Fellowship, 2014
12. Gulu Saiyad selected as Segal Design Fellow, 2014
13. Daniel Rees Lewis selected for the Northwestern Advance Cognitive Fellowship, 2014
14. Emily Harburg selected as NSF Graduate Fellow, 2014
15. Mert Iseri and Yuri Malina selected as top 20 business leaders in their 20’s by Crain’s Business Week, 2013
16. Hannah Chung selected by Warren Buffet for top Start Up Pitch, 2014
17. Design for America’s Swipe Sense as Top 10 WSJ Startup of the Year, 2014
18. Design for America’s Sammy Lin wins Buick Achievement Scholarship, 2013
19. Julie Hui and Mike Greenberg selected as NSF Graduate Fellows, 2013
20. Julie Hui and Mike Greenberg selected as Segal Design Fellows, 2013
21. Hannah Chung selected as top 15 female tech entrepreneurs to look out for in 2012
22. Design for America UCLA team wins Johnson and Johnson Be Vital Challenge, 2012
23. Design for America team wins Open IDEO Award, 2012
24. Design for America team, Sproutel, selected for Beta Spring, a startup incubator, 
 2011
25. Design for America team, Swipesense, selected for Health Box, a startup incubator, 
2011
26. Patent for a Toy for Diabetic Children by Design for America Team, 2011
27. Semi-finalists of the national Diabetes Mine Challenge for Design for America, 2011
28. Boeing Company Award for Design for America, 2011
29. Semi-finalist for the Dell Social Innovation Competition for Design for America, 2011
30. Patent for a Hand Sanitation Device by Design for America Team, 2010
31. Sheena Lewis, NSF Graduate Fellowship, 2010
32. Winner of the Northwestern’s Entrepreneurial Idol Competition for Design for America 2010
33. Water Health and Development Field Exchange for Design for America, 2010
34. Northwestern’s Breed Fund for Design for America, 2009
35. Northwestern’s Initiative for Sustainability and Energy Grant for Design for America, 2009
36. Winner of the national Diabetes Mine Challenge for Design for America, 2009
37. Winner of the national Social Designer Challenge for Design for America, 2009

Professional Membership

1. Association for Computing Machinery
2. American Society of Mechanical Engineers
3. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Professional Society Service

1. Treasurer
   • ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2019
2. Evaluation Panel
   • MacArthur Initiative: 100 & Change, 2016
3. Conference Chair
   • AAAI Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2015 (co-chair)
4. Communications Chair
   • Collective Intelligence, 2014
   • ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2015 (co-chair)
5. Social Impact Co-Chair
   • ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction, 2016, 2017
6. Workshop Chair
   • AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014
7. Design Judge
   • Microsoft Faculty Summit, 2014
   • Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, 2015
8. Student Design Competiton
   • ACM Conference on Compter Human Interaction, 2018
9. Program Committee
   • ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction, 2010, 2011, 2013
   • ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2014
   • ACM Conference on Design of Interactive Systems, 2014
   • AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014
10. Technical Committee
    • Symposium on Crowdfunding, 2013
11. Scholarly Reviews
    • ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction, 2008-present
    • ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2009-present
    • ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2012-present
    • ACM Conference on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2012-present
    • AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), 2014
    • IEEE Internet Computing, 2012
    • ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 2013 2014
    • Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 2011
    • International Journal of Design, 2012
    • Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis, and Manufacturing, 2011
    • Journal of Engineering Education, 2010
    • International Journal of Engineering Education, 2009, 2011
12. Editorial Board
    • ACM Transactions on Social Computing, Founding Editorial Board, 2016 – present

Federal, State, City Service

• Review panel member, Venture Well, 2015
• Review panel member, National Science Foundation, 2014
• Robert A. Pritzker Visiting Scientist-Inventor-Engineer, Francis Parker School, Chicago, 2014-2015. Program selects one influential and inspiring person to serve as the Robert A. Pritzker Visiting Scientist-Inventor-Engineer in Residence to help students get even more excited about pursuing STEM related fields. Previous individuals to hold this position included Nobel Prize winning physicist, Leon Lederman, as well as other world renowned individuals such as Paul Sereno, Russell and Christina Mittermeier, Rocky Kolb, and Don Hillebrand
• Judge, Microsoft Research Design Expo, 2014. Selected as one of three leaders in design along with Microsoft’s Bill Buxton and NYU’s Tom Igoe to judge selective design expo at Microsoft Faculty Summit
• Judge, Inc.’s Best in Class Design Awards, 2014. Selected as one of seven judges to serve on a panel featuring industry pioneers, successful entrepreneurs, and leading-edge creative thinkers to judge design competition
• Design and Social Impact Co-Chair, Social Computing Workshop, National Science Foundation, 2013. Selected as one of two thought leaders in design and social impact to identify critical areas for development in the field of social computing
• Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts, 2013. Selected as one of three thought leaders in design to identify critical areas for development in the field of design and innovation

University Service

Department of Mechanical Engineering

1. Undergraduate Advisor, 2008 – present
2. Design Curriculum Committee, 2011-present
3. Faculty Advisor, Design China, 2015
4. Faculty Advisor, Design for Northwestern, 2015
5. Faculty mentor, Murphy Scholars Program, 2012-2013
6. ABET Evaluation Committee, Design Curriculum, 2011
7. Michelson Prize Screening Committee, 2013
8. NAE U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Representative, 2013
9. NAE U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium Representative, 2011

Department of Communication Studies

1. Technology and Social Behavior Admissions Committee, 2010-present
2. Instructional Committee for the Digital Media Module, 2015-present
3. Faculty Search Committee, 2015-present

McCormick School of Engineering

1. Design Research Council Executive Committee, 2011-present
2. Director of Design Cluster, 2015-2019
3. Engineering Design and Innovation Curriculum Committee, 2008-present
4. Segal Design Institute Executive Committee, 2008-2010
5. Segal Lecture Series Organizer, 2008-2013, Co-Organizer 2013-present
6. Rev Center Project Committee, 2010–2011
7. NSF Workshop on Design and Innovation Organizing Committee, 2010-2011
8. Panelist, Women in Computing at Northwestern, 2011

Northwestern University

1. Faculty mentor, Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) program, 2012
2. Faculty mentor, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) program, 2012-present
3. Steering Committee, Center for Civic Engagement Committee, 2009-present
4. OpED Project Thought Leaders Fellows Selection Committee, 2013-2014
5. Advisor for the SPG, the Graduate Student Improvisation Group, The Graduate School, 2008-present
6. Advisor for the Ready, Set, Go Program, a program designed to empower researchers with communication skills, The Graduate School, 2011-present

 

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