Jodi Forlizzi
Jodi L. Forlizzi is The Herbert A. Simon Professor, and an interaction designer and researcher, at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Jodi has advocated for design research in all forms, mentoring peers, colleagues, and students in its structure and execution, and today it is an important part of the HCI community. Jodi studies the ethical impacts of human interaction with AI systems in front-line service industries including healthcare and hospitality. She studies the potential for AI to facilitate purposeful employment for people with disabilities. She also develops methods and tools to ensure that product developers can mitigate ethical harms and bias during product development. Jodi is an ACM SIGCHI Fellow and recently received its Lifetime Research Award. She recently testified to the US Senate in one an AI Innovation Briefing and is a central advisor to the AFL-CIO Tech Institute and the NIST Industrial Advisory Committee regarding technology research.
Education
Forlizzi obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from the Philadelphia College of Art. She obtained her master's degree in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Design in Human-Computer Interaction in 2007 also from Carnegie Mellon University.Career
Forlizzi began working as an information designer for the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1985, while still an undergraduate. to 1995. She then did design research for the Novum Design Center at Carnegie Mellon University. She was appointed an assistant professor of the HCI Institute in early 2000, becoming a full professor in 2014. Between 2007 and 2010, she was the A. Nico Habermann Junior Faculty Chair in Computer Science.She has worked as an innovator and project manager of E-Lab LLC in Chicago. She has also done consulting work for major companies, including General Motors, Disney Research, Willow Garage, BodyMedia, University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Pennsylvania Linguistic Data Consortium, Luton Corporation, and Nurseweek.
Forlizzi is a co-founder of Pratter.us since 2014, a health care startup aimed at enabling employees to search and save money on medical care by zip code before the time of service.