Dr. James Landay

Biography

James Landay is the Anand Rajaraman Venky Harinarayan Professor and Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI at Stanford University. He specializes in human-computer interaction and has a rich academic background, having previously served as a Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech and as a faculty member in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of Washington for ten years. Landay held the position of Director at Intel Labs in Seattle from 2003 to 2006, where he led research in ubiquitous computing. He is also the co-founder and chief scientist of NetRaker, which was acquired by KeyNote Systems in 2004. Throughout his career, Landay has been recognized as an ACM Fellow and received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award. He has been actively involved in various committees and has contributed to the academic community as a member of the NSF CISE Advisory Committee from 2010 to 2016. His current research interests include Technology Support for Behavior Change, Demonstrational User Interfaces, Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing, Cross-Cultural Interface Design, Human-Centered AI, and User Interface Design Tools. He has developed several tools and published significant contributions in the field of web interface design.

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