Computer Science Quality Assurance

Dept of CS, Box ****** +1-585-***-****

Jeffrey P. Bigham

University of Rochester abow0k@r.postjobfree.com

Rochester, NY 14627 www.jeffreybigham.com

FACULTY POSITION

July 2009PresentAssistant Professor, Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of Rochester

Visiting Scientist, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (CSAIL)

JulyDecember 2009Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Interests: human-computer interaction (HCI), accessible computing, real-time human

computation, crowdsourcing,

intelligent user interfaces, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and natural

language processing.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington 2009

Thesis Title: Intelligent Interfaces Enabling Blind Web Users to Build Accessibility Into

the Web

Committee: Richard E. Ladner (chair), Tessa Lau, Ed Lazowska, and Jacob O. Wobbrock.

M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington 2005

Qualifying Exam Project: Boosting Relation Extraction Recall with Soft Rule s. Advisor:

Oren Etzioni.

B.S.E. Computer Science, Princeton University 2003

Thesis Title: On Using Error-Correcting Codes and Boosting to Learn Multi-Class

Classification Problems

Advisors: Amit Sahai and Robert Shapire

HONORS

NSF CAREER Award (2012)

ACM WSDM 2012 Best Paper Award [C.30] (2012)

ACM UIST 2010 Best Paper Award [C.24] (2010)

W4A Accessibility Challenge Delegate s Award VizWiz [O.8] (2010)

ACM ASSETS 2009 Best Student Technical Paper [C.19] (2009)

MIT Technology Review Top 35 Innovators Under 35 Award (2009)

University of Washington College of Engineering Student Innovator Award for Research

(2009)

NCTI Technology in the Works Award (2009)

NISH National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation & Design Slide Rule (Honorable

Mention) (2009)

NISH National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation & Design WebAnywhere (Honorable

Mention) (2009)

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award for Technology Collaboration (MATC) (2008)

ACM ASSETS 2008 Best Student Technical Paper [C.15] (2008)

Microsoft Imagine Cup Accessible Technology Award (2008)

Osberg Endowed Presidential Fe llowship (2008)

W4A Accessibility Challenge Delegate s Award WebAnywhere [O.5] (2008)

NSF

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REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS

REFEREED PAPERS ACCOMPANYING POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

SELECTED INVITED TALKS AND PANELS

[T.29]

Heads in the Cloud New Approaches for Access Technology. Smith-Kettlewell Eye

Instistute, San

Francisco, CA, June 2011.

[T.28] Heads in the Cloud How Strangers, Virtual Farmers, and Your Friends from High

Schools May Solve

Artificial Intelligence. Provost s Phelps Colloquium, Rochester, NY, March, 2011.

[T.27] Heads in the Cloud New Approaches for Access Technology. University of

WashingtonDepartment of

Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA, January, 2011.

[T.26] Heads in the Cloud New Approaches for Access Technology. University of San

Diego, San Diego, CA,

November, 2010.

[T.25] Electronic Health Records: Issues for Non -Visual Access. Accessible Electronic

Health Records Workshop

at ASSETS 2010. October, 2010.

[T.24] Legal and Regulatory Barriers to Accessibility Technology in the Cloud . Panelist.

Moderator: Preston

Padden, Silicon Flatirons. Coleman Conference Workshop. October, 2010.

[T.22] Heads in the Cloud How Strangers, Virtual Farmers, and Your Friends from High

Schools a re Bringing

Artificial Intelligence into the Real World. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD,

September, 2010.

[T.21] Accessibility on Demand.

IBM Almaden, San Jose, CA. June, 2010.

[T.20] Accessibility on Demand. Yahoo! Inc. Sunnyvale, CA. June, 201 0.

[T.19] Improving Access for Blind Web Users. Xerox Research. Webster, NY, January, 2010.

[T.18] Improving Access for Blind Web Users. MIT CSAIL. Boston, Massachusetts, April,

2009.

[T.17] Improving Access for Blind Web Users. University of Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin.

March, 2009.

[T.16] Improving Access for Blind Web Users. Washington University. St. Louis, Missouri.

March, 2009.

[T.15] Improving Access for Blind Web Users. University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon.

February, 2009.

[T.14] Improving Access for Blind Web Users. Oregon State University. Corvallis, Oregon.

February, 2009.

[T.13] Improving Access for Blind Web Users. Microsoft Research. Redmond, Washington.

February, 2009.

[T.12] Improving Access for Blind Web Users. University of Rochester. Rochester, New

York. February, 2009.

[T.11] Understanding the Global Marketplace Perspectives from WebAnywhere. National

Center for

Technology Innovation (NCTI) Technology Innovators Conference. Washington, D.C. November, 2008.

[T.10] Overview of NFB Youth Slam Computer Science Track. AccessComputing Leadership

Institute. Panel.

Seattle, Washington. November, 2008

.

[T.9] Research Trends in

Supporting Accessibility. Scripting Enabled. Adobe, Inc.

Seattle, WA. Nov., 2008.

[T.8] Accessibility, Usability, and Availability Building an Inclusive Web Experience .

Amazon Accessibility

Day, Amazon Inc. Seattle, Washington. October, 2008.

[T.7] Accessibility Panel. LMS Seminar, Electronics and Computer Science Department.

Panel. Southampton

University, United Kingdom. September, 2008.

[T.6] Toward Social Accessibility. National Association of Disability Practitioners

Conference: The Future of

Supporting Students Through Technology. High Wycombe, United Kingdom. September, 2008.

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[T.5] A Web 2.0 Approach to Web Accessibility. International Conference on Low Vision

(VISION 2008).

Montreal, Canada. July, 2008.

[T.4] WebAnywhere: A Screen Reader On -the-Go. Microsoft Imagine Cup Finals. Paris,

France. July, 2008.

[T.3] A Web 2.0 Approach to Web Accessibility . Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New

York. Nov., 2007.

[T.2] WebAnywhere:

A Screen Reader On -the-Go. Tech Talk, Google Inc. Kirkland, WA.

August, 2007.

[T.1] WebInSight:

Making Web Images Accessible. Tech Talk, Google Inc. Kirkland, WA. May

2007

.

SELECTED PRESS

[S.9] Paulson, Tom. Professor s work erases technological barriers: Projects help deaf,

blind benefit

everyone. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. December, 2008.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/390358_cybersigning03.html

[S.8] Aycinena, Peggy. Access For All. Communications of the ACM. August, 2008.

[S.7] Thomas, Jeffrey. The Blind Can Now Use the Web from Anywhere. America.gov. August,

2008.

http://www.america.gov/st/educ-english/2008/August/200808011316311CJsamohT0.1210901.html

[S.8] Makovec, Anne. Project makes web more accessible to blind. ABC News. July, 2008.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/drive_to_discover&id=6243441

[S.5]

Nelson, Bryn. Opening New Portals for the Blind. MSNBC. July, 2008.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25630182/

[S.4] Stansbury, Meris. Emerging Tech Makes Learning More Accessible. eSchool News. July,

2008.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=54514

[S.3] Blankinship, Donna. Web-Based Program Gives the Blind Internet Access. Associated

Press. July, 2008.

[S.2] Imagine Cup 2008: Web-based Screen Reader Wins Top Accessibility Priz e. Microsoft

PressPass. June,

2008. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2008/jun08/06 -18imagineaccess.mspx

[S.1] Hickey, Hannah. Online Service Lets Blind Surf the Internet From Any Computer,

Anywhere. University

of Washington Press Release. June, 2008. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=42563

GRANTS RECEIVED

[G.9] CAREER: Closed-Loop Crowd Support for People with Disabilities

National Science Foundation

Principal Investigator, January 2012, $500,003.

REU Supplement, March, 2012, $16,000.

[G.8] MobileAccessibility: Bridge to the World for Blind, Low -Vision, and Deaf-Blind

People

National Science Foundation

Co-Investigator, September, 2011, $120,000,

with Principal Investigator Richard E. Ladner (University of Washington).

[G.7] Combining Artificial and Human Intelligence for More Effective Access Technology

Google Research Award

Principal Investigator, July, 2011, $57,000.

[G.6] National Federation of the Blind Youth Slam Computer Science Track

AccessComputing Mini-Grant

Principal Investigator, May, 2011, $4,800

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[G.5] WebAnywhere: An Extensible Cloud Platform

National Center on Disability and Rehabilitation Research

Subcontract from TRACE R&D CENTER, University of Wisconsin September, 2010, $25,000.

[G.4] EAGER: VizWiz: Enabling Blind People to Answer Visual Questions On-the-Go with

Remote

Automatic and Human-Powered Services

National Science Foundation

Principal Investigator, September, 2010, $49,999.

[G.3] RCT of Primary Care-based Patient Navigation-Activation - Research on HIV/AID-

Related Cancers

Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities

National Cancer Institute

Co-Investigator, October, 2010, $200,000,

with Principal Investigator Kevin Fiscella (University of Rochester, Family Medicine).

[G.2] Enabling More Effective Use of the Web Anywhere with WebAnywhere and TrailBlazer

National Center on Technology Innovation

Principal Investigator, October 2009, $15,000.

[G.1] WebAnywhere.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award for Technology Collaboration (MATC)

Co-Investigator, December 2008, $50,000,

with Principal Investigator Richard E. Ladner (University of Washington).

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

(Summer 2008)

Intern, USER Research Group, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

Mentor: Tessa Lau

Created TrailBlazer, a non-visual, programming-by-demonstration system that makes web

tasks easier to complete

with a screen reader by enabling users to record, playback and share scripts describing

web tasks. Developed a

novel, machine-learning technique that uses a user s history and a short task description

to suggest a next step even

when no script for the desired task exists. [C.17]

Summer Fellow, Benetech, Palo Alto, CA (Summer 2008

)

Manager: Reuben Firmin

Worked with a team to improve the WebAnywhere web-based screen-reading web application.

Put the initial release

of WebAnywhere through formal quality assurance, adapted WebAnywhere for site -specific

release, and made it

easier for other developers to join the project.

Intern, Google Research, Mountain View, CA (Summer 2005)

Mentor: Marius Pasca

Tackled substantial quantitative and qualitative problems with the goal of automatically

generating a million correct

relational facts from unstructured web text starting with ten seed facts. Made

improvements to both the scoring

metrics used to evaluate facts and to the extraction mechanism used to extract facts.

Adapted the extraction system

to use the Map-Reduce paradigm, so it could scale linearly and extract over a million

facts. [C.2][C.3]

Research Intern, AT&T Shannon Labs, Florham Park, NJ (Summer 2003)

Advisors: Wen-Ling Hsu and Guy Jacobson

Tasked with improving the automatic classification and routing of email based on subject.

Discovered that the

categories currently in use overlapped and were often confused even by human

representatives. Developed tools to

identify problems in a supplied categorical hierarchy, suggest improved categories

through iterative hierarchy

improvement, and produce informative visualizations that illustrate confusion in a

hierarchy.

Intern, Microsoft, Redmond, WA (Summer 2002)

Mentor: Adam Nathan

Developed an application designed to automatically generate test cases for the Interop

area of the .NET Common

Language Runtime. Using my program, logical representations of test cases were generated

and executed in order to

automatically test the entire Interop space

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (CSC 212/412) (Fall 2010, 2011)

Developed a new course introducing computer science students to human -computer

interaction.

Received a 4.7/5.0 average rating from ~35 students.

Web Programming (CSC 210) (Spring 2010, 2011, 2012)

Developed and taught a very popular undergraduate course on the technology and science of

web programming.

Received a 4.4/5.0 average rating from ~55 students.

Tutor, University of Washington (Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Fall 2007)

Operating Systems (CSE 451), Artificial Intelligence (CSE 473)

Held weekly tutoring sessions with groups of 1-3 students.

National Federation of the Blind (NFB) Youth Slam (August 2007, July 2009)

Led the development of the curriculum for the computer science track at the Youth Slam

and used it as part of an

intensive class for 15 blind high school students to teach them the excitement of

programming in 4 days. [C.8]

http://webinsight.cs.washington.edu/nfbslam/

Teaching Assistant, University of Washington (Fall 2003Winter 2006)

Computer Vision (CSE 455) with Steve Seitz, Cyber-Terrorism (CSEP 590TU) with Ed

Lazowska, Machine

Organization and Assembly Language Pr ogramming (CSE 378) with Jean-Loupe Baer,

Artificial Intelligence non-

majors (CSE 415) with Steven Tanimoto, Artificial Intelligence (CSE 473) with Henry Kautz

Responsibilities included leading quiz sections, creating and grading assignments, and

supporting students. Also

prepared and presented lectures and quiz sections.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Program Committee

AAAI: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2011)

CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2011-2012)

IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2011)

ASSETS: ACM Conference on Accessibility and Computing (2009-2012)

CHI: ACM CHI: Work-In-Progress Track (2009)

UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (2011)

W4A: International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (2009-2011)

Organizing Committee

ASSETS: ACM Conference on Accessibility and Computing (2009-2011)

W4A: International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (2009-2012)

Reviewer of Journal Publications

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (2008-2010)

IBM Systems Journal (2008)

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (2007)

Reviewer of Conference Publications

IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2009)

CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2007-2010)

UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (2007-2010)

Other

ASSETS: ACM Student Research Competition Judge (2009)

Student Volunteer

ICWSM: ACM Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (2008)

IUI: ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (2008)

Professional Memberships

AAAI: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (2008 Present)

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery (2008 Present)

SIGACCESS: ACM Special Interest Group on Accessibilit y (2008 Present)

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Raising the Floor Initiative (raisingthefloor.org) Member (2009 Present)

Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure ( gpii.org) Architecture Committee Member (2010

Present)

WebAnywhere Web-Based Screen Reader Open Source Project [C.10][ C.11] (2007 Present)

National Federation of the Blind, Youth Slam Computer Science Track Instructor

(2007,2009,2011)

Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC) Conference Student Delegate (2009)

Accessible Web Capacity Building Institute, University of Washington DO -IT Program

(2006)

Vertical Mentoring Workshop for the Blind in STEM, Volunteer (2006)

DO-IT Game of Life Workshop, Volunteer (2006)

REFERENCES

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