Allison Woodruff

Allison Gyle Woodruff is an American computer scientist whose work concerns human–computer interaction, information visualization, algorithmic fairness, sustainability, citizen science, and environmental monitoring. She is a user experience researcher in the Google Security & Privacy team.[1]

Education and career

Woodruff majored in English at California State University, Chico, and has master's degrees in both linguistics and computer science from the University of California, Davis.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in computer science in 1998 at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation Data Lineage and Information Density in Database Visualization supervised by Michael Stonebraker.[3]

Before joining Google, she worked for Xerox PARC from 1998 to 2004,[2] and then for Intel Research Berkeley.[1]

Recognition

Woodruff was named to the CHI Academy in 2021.[4]

References
  1. "Speaker biography", ENIGMA 2018, USENIX, retrieved 2022-03-12
  2. Author: Allison Woodruff, Interaction Design Foundation, retrieved 2022-03-12
  3. Allison Woodruff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. 2021 SIGCHI Awards, ACM SIGCHI, retrieved 2022-03-12
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