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Leanne Bowler, PhD, is an associate professor at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, where she leads the specialization in children and youth. She received her PhD and two master degrees (MLS, MEd) from McGill University, in Montréal, Canada. Her research and teaching interests lie in the area of youth information interaction, with a focus on intrapersonal knowledge and metacognitive practices.

Adam Perer is a Research Scientist at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, where he is a member of the Healthcare Analytics Research Group. His research in visualization and human-computer interaction focuses on the design of novel visual analytics systems. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, advised by Ben Shneiderman.

Chris Quintana engages in research that is at the intersection of education and learning sciences, human-computer interaction, and computer science. He has focused much of work on software-based scaffolding for middle school science students, including the development of scaffolded software tools, scaffolding frameworks for software, and learner-centered design processes.

Daniel Rosenberg is the 2019 recipient of the SigCHI Lifetime Practice Award for his combination of technical and leadership contributions to the field over the past 40+ years.

Currently, he is a UX consultant and an adjunct professor of HCI at San Jose State University. He serves on the advisory board of the Interaction Design Foundation and edits the “Business of UX” Forum in ACM Interactions magazine.

Professor Leyton received a BS degree in Mathematics from Warwick University (England), and a PhD in Psychology from UC Berkeley. He was a recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award. His process-grammar for describing shape history has been used in over 20 scientific disciplines from chemical engineering to meteorology. He is president of the International Society for Mathematical and Computational Aesthetics. Currently he is involved in ISO work—international standardization in the aerospace and mechanical engineering industry—as well as research in control systems in robots.

Jessica Hullman is an Associate Professor of Computer Science with a joint appointment in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Her research looks at how to design, evaluate, coordinate, and think about representations of data for amplifying cognition and decision making. She co-directs the Midwest Uncertainty Collective, a lab devoted to better representations, evaluations, and theory around how to communicate uncertainty in data, with Matt Kay.

Tracee Wolf is a designer with the Social Computing Group at IBM Research in Hawthorne, NY. She currently works with her group to create socio-technical solutions in interpersonal and collaboration technologies. Her degrees in Applied Design and Visual Communication (B.S.) and Architecture (Masters) have provided a basis not only for user-empathy and user-advocacy, but also solutions that acknowledge human needs and habits.

Gabriela Marcu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. She studies the delivery of behavioral health services and the use of digital health interventions. Her expertise is in designing and evaluating use of systems for health through qualitative methods, participatory design, community-based approaches, and field studies.

Daniel Gloyd holds a Masters of Design degree in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University. He currently works for Samsung Telecommunications America at the LA Design Lab in Los Angeles and is founder of the LA Lab’s User Interface Design Group. Prior to Samsung, Daniel worked in the medical industry and has collaborated with Fortune 500 companies such as General Motors, IBM, and Compaq to study the potential for creating effective communication in today’s complex information environments. Daniel is also a painter and frequently exhibits his art work.

Stephen Hirtle is Professor and Chair of the Department of Information Science and Telecommunications at the University of Pittsburgh, with joint appointments in the Department of Psychology and Intelligent Systems Program. He received a his Ph.D. from University of Michigan in Mathematical Psychology in 1982. He is the founding co-editor of Spatial Cognition and Computation.