Wendy Ju

Wendy Ju is an Associate Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and the Technion. She is a member of the Information Science field at Cornell University. Dr. Ju comes to Cornell Tech from the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, where she was Executive Director of Interaction Design Research, and from the California College of the Arts, where she was an Associate Professor of Interaction Design in the Design MFA program. Her work in the areas of human-robot interaction and automated vehicle interfaces highlights the ways that interactive devices can communicate and engage people without interrupting or intruding. Dr. Ju has innovated numerous methods for early-stage prototyping of automated systems to understand how people will respond to systems before the systems are built. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Her monograph on The Design of Implicit Interactions was published in 2015.

Education

• June 2008 Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
  DISSERTATION:The Design of Implicit Interactions
  COMMITTEE: Larry Leifer (primary advisor), Terry Winograd, Cliord Nass, Edward Carryer, Donald Norman, Scott Klemmer
• 1999-2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  M.S. Media Arts and Sciences
  THESIS:The Design of Active Workspaces
  COMMITTEE: Michael Hawley (primary advisor), Joseph Paradiso, Chee Pearlman
• 1993-1997 Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  B.S. with Distinction, Mechanical Engineering

Positions

• 2018– Associate Professor, Information Science, promoted Spring 2020 Jacobs Cornell-Technion Institute, Cornell Tech, New York, NY Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
• 2013–2017 Executive Director, Interaction Design Research Center for Design Research, Stanford University, Stanford CA
• 2008–2017 Associate Professor, promoted Fall 2014 Graduate Program in Design, California College of the Arts
• 2009-2013 Research Associate Computer Science & Center for Design Research, Stanford University PIs: Terry Winograd, Larry Leifer