Wendy Ju, associate professor at Cornell Tech, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, and the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, has been awarded a place in the Class of 2025 of the prestigious ACM SIGCHI Academy. The award honors her leadership and innovations in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI).
ACM SIGCHI — the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction — is one of the world’s largest associations of professionals who contribute towards the research and practice of HCI.
The highly competitive SIGCHI awards uplift those who have changed the field of HCI with their exceptional achievements. Ju has been awarded a place in the CHI Academy, an honorary group of leaders who have shaped the field.
“SIGCHI is my home academic community, a group of other researchers and practitioners who tackle the opportunities and challenges of human-computer interaction together. I was drawn to SIGCHI early in my research career because it was a community that shared my interests in design, interactive technologies, and people,” Ju said.
The SIGCHI award will provide Ju with travel support to attend the 2025 CHI conference in Yokohama, Japan. CHI is widely considered to be one of the highest-ranking conferences in HCI and computer science at large. Awardees like Ju will be recognized at the conference, and they will also receive passes to attend the annual SIGCHI awards banquet.
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