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Professor and Chair of Informatics, Indiana University

Katie Siek is a professor and chair of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington. Her primary research interests are in human computer interaction, health informatics, and ubiquitous computing. More specifically, she is interested in how sociotechnical interventions affect personal health and well being. Her research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Science Foundation including a five-year NSF CAREER award. She has been awarded an NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award (2019), a CRA-W Borg Early Career Award (2012), and Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance Distinguished Visiting Fellowships (2010 & 2015). Dr. Siek is a Computing Research Association Board Member and a Computing Community Consortium Council. Prior to returning to her alma mater, she was a professor for 7 years at the University of Colorado Boulder. She earned her PhD and MS at Indiana University Bloomington in computer science and her BS in computer science at Eckerd College. She was a National Physical Science Consortium Fellow at Indiana University and a Ford Apprentice Scholar at Eckerd College.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of Informatics, Indiana University

Honours

National Center for Women in Information Technology Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award; Borg Early Career Award; Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance Distinguished Visiting Fellowship; National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award