Ellen Do

Ellen Yi-Luen Do (Professor, ATLAS Institute & Computer Science) invents at the intersections of people, design and technology. She works on computational tools for design, especially sketching, creativity and design cognition, including creativity support tools and design studies, tangible and embedded interaction and, most recently, computing for health and wellness.

She holds a PhD in Design Computing from Georgia Institute of Technology, a Master of Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a bachelor's degree from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. She has served on the faculties of University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Institute of Technology. From 2013 to 2016, she co-directed the Keio-NUS CUTE Center in Singapore, a research unit investigating Connected Ubiquitous Technology for Embodiments.

Ellen has published over 140 papers and raised over $11M in research funding. She was Design Communiity Chair for ACM CHI (2012 and 2013), currently serves on the Steering Committees for ACM TEI (sine 2011) and C&C (since 2017), and on the editorial board for AIEDAM, Springer Series on Cultural Computing, and AUSMT. She enjoys playing the Djembe and performs at festivals and other venues with the Sensua Players.

Companies

• Professor, ATLAS Institute & Computer Science Department University of Colorado Boulder (2017)
• Visiting Research Professor National University of Singapore (2013)
• Editor AIEDAM (2005)
• Djembe drummer Sensua Players (2009 — 2017)
• Professor, College of Design, College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology (2006 — 2017)
• Professor Georgia Tech (2006 — 2017)
• CUTE Center Singapore HCI group (2012 — 2016)
• Professor, Co-Director at CUTE Center National University of Singapore (2013 — 2016)
• Professor, CUTE Center Co-Director UK-Singapore Science of Learning Forum (2014 — 2014)