Lana Yarosh

She/Her or They/Them

Associate Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, McKnight Presidential Fellow, Director of Undergraduate Studies - Computer Science

Contact

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5-187 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
200 Union Street Se
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Lana Yarosh

She/Her or They/Them

Associate Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, McKnight Presidential Fellow, Director of Undergraduate Studies - Computer Science

Research

Research Interests

Yarosh runs the ProDUCT (Prototyping, Design, and Usability of Communication Technologies) group. As part of the GroupLens research lab, her group is committed to the design and empirical study of social computing systems, frequently adding an embodiment perspective to these investigations (e.g., adding projection and haptics to communication systems). The group does work in a variety of contexts, with particularly notable contributions in the areas of Child-Computer Interaction (e.g., supporting intergenerational mentorship in schools), Online Health Communities (e.g., examining social support on CaringBridge.org), and Pervasive Health (e.g., helping people in recovery from substance use disorders get connected with support).

Research Division
Human-Centered Computing

Current Research
Google Scholar
GroupLens research lab

Ph.D. Graduates
Adel Al-Dawood (2024); Zachary Levonian (2022; co-advised with Loren Terveen); Ye "Irene" Yuan (2022); Sabirat Rubya (2020); Sarah McRoberts (2020).

Recent News

GroupLens: A Human-Centered Approach to AI
Meet the Faculty - Lana Yarosh
Computing Ethics Project Receives $400,000 Grant
Yarosh’s Group Wins Distinguished Paper Award for Self-tracking Addiction Recovery Applications
Paper on rethinking mental health interventions recognized at CSCW
GroupLens research shines at CSCW 2021
Research studio to put art first—with the help of science and technology
New research space to center the arts in interdisciplinary collaborations
GroupLens research receives honorable mention at CHI 2021
Professor Lana Yarosh honored with Morse-Alumni Award
Lana Yarosh named McKnight Presidential Fellow
Yarosh receives Taylor Career Development Award from the College of Science and Engineering
Yarosh receives NSF CAREER award

Biography

Education

Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology (2012)
B.S. in Computer Science and Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park (2005)

Professional Background

Lana Yarosh joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 2014 as an assistant professor. She was promoted to associate professor in 2020 and was named a Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor in 2021. Yarosh also received the NSF CAREER Award in 2017 and the Google Faculty Research Award in 2018. She is a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery, as well as a member of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. Before joining the University, she served as the senior member of technical staff at AT&T Labs Research from 2012-14.

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Teaching

Publications & Awards

Honors and Awards

2021: Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education
2020: George W. Taylor Career Development Award
2020: McKnight Presidential Fellows Award Program
2017: McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
2017: National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER Award)

Selected Grants
Beyond the Individual: Community-Engaged Design and Implementation of a Framework for Ethical OnlineCommunities Research
Yarosh, L., Chancellor, S., Konstan, J. A., Lu, K. & Terveen, L. G.; National Science Foundation; 1/1/23 - 12/31/25