Svetlana “Lana” Yarosh is an associate professor in the

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. She is a Distinguished University Teaching Professor and recipient of the McKnight Presidential Fellowship. Yarosh does research as part of the

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group. Her research expertise in

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focuses on embodied interaction in

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systems. She is a member of the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (

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), Member Institute of Digital Media and Child Development, Anita Borg Institute Systers, and a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (

Biography

Education

Yarosh earned her Bachelor of Science degree in

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and

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in the

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, College Park in 2005, and she graduated from

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as a Doctor of Philosophy, specializing in

Human-Centered Computing Human-centered computing (HCC) studies the design, development, and deployment of mixed-initiative human-computer systems. It is emerged from the convergence of multiple disciplines that are concerned both with understanding human beings and w ...

in 2012.

Career & research

Yarosh worked at

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for two years before joining the

as an assistant professor. Yarosh's research investigates human-computer interaction (HCI). Within HCI, her work focuses on child-computer interaction and

. Her work has led to numerous patents including a system and method for enabling mirror video chat using a wearable display device and a system and method for providing separate communication zones in a large format videoconference.

Teaching

Yarosh began her teaching career in 2014 at the University of Minnesota. She's taught a number of classes in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering including: CSCI 1133: Introduction to Computing and Programming Concepts, CSCI 5115: User Interface Design, Implementation and Evaluation, CSCI 5127W: Embodied Computing: Design & Prototyping, CSCI 8001: Introduction to Research in Computer Science, CSCI 8002: Introduction to Research in Computer Science II, and CSCI 8980: Social Connectedness Technologies. Content from some of these courses is available on the online platform

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. Yarosh collaborated with others to develop and deploy a YouTube

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series on Artificial Intelligence which launched on August 9, 2019.

Honors and awards

* McKnight Presidential Fellows Award (2020–2023) * CSCW Best Paper Honorable Mention Award (2021) * CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention Award (2021) * CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention Award (2019) * Morse-Alumni Award (2019)

References

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