Gillian Rachael Hayes is an American computer scientist. She is the Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Professor in the

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and Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division at UC Irvine.

Early life and education

Hayes completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1997 at Vanderbilt University and her PhD in Computer Science from

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Career

Upon completing her PhD, Hayes joined the faculty at the

in 2007. While working as an

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of informatics, she was named the inaugural holder of the Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Chair in Informatics. In this role, she received one of three Advanced Research Fellowships awarded by The Jacobs Foundation to develop a framework for designing technologies for and with youth, as well as establish a structure for measuring the outcomes of these technological designs. Upon returning to teaching, she was a finalist for the 2017 Community Engaged Scholar Award. Hayes was named the third Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division on September 1, 2019, replacing Frances Leslie. In the same year, she was the recipient of the Social Impact Award as someone who "promotes the application of human-computer interaction research to pressing social needs." During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hayes and colleague Sharad Mehrotra were named Distinguished Members of the

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for their outstanding scientific contributions that "propel the digital age."

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