Wendy is a Human Interface Researcher in the Computer Science Department
at IBM Research, and is also a graduate student in the Cognitive
Science
Department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Since
joining IBM in 1997, she has led the efforts in the areas of
human-computer interaction, biosensing, and women and computing.
In
addition to these projects, she has been looking at TrackPoint pointing
device and ThinkPad computer issues (algorithms, efficiency, performance,
etc). At IBM, her primary interests focus on affective computing,
pervasive computing, socially oriented computing, and smart computing.
At
UCSD, Wendy's research tries to understand how to help kids who
had brain
damage very early in life. She looks at their neurological and behavioral
profiles and develops new technologies to help them in their everyday
lives. She has worked with a number of technologies in her research
such as: eyetracking, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI),
and
others.
Before she came to IBM, she conducted research at the University
of
Hawaii, and she also worked at the NASA Langley Research Center
programming simulations for satellite missions and the International
Space
Station.
Wendy received her B.S. in Computer Science from the University
of
Delaware with a concentration in mathematics in May 1997. She also
received her M.S. in Cognitive Science from UCSD in June 2002.
"I've had a varied career so far and I really enjoy having
that mixed
background. Blending my Computer Science skills and my work on
neuroscience-related project has been very rewarding. I feel that
I can
make a difference in peoples' lives. New technologies can help people
with (or without) disabilities in enormous ways and I'm happy to
say that
I'm working on creating those technologies now!"
The most important classes that I took for my career:
high school
- math
- science (biology & physics)
- computer programming
undergraduate college
- computer programming
- math
- biology
graduate school
- neuroscience
- math
- physics
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