Elizabeth Churchill

Prior to joining MBZUAI, Professor Churchill built research teams at Google, eBay, Yahoo, PARC and FujiXerox. Her background is in psychology, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. She draws on social, computer, engineering, and data sciences to create innovative end-user applications and services. Her current focus is on the design of effective designer and developer tooling for a new operating system, Fuchsia. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and honorary doctorates from the University of Sussex and the University of Stockholm. Professor Churchill is a member of the Association for Computer Machinery's (ACM) CHI Academy, is an ACM Fellow, and an ACM Distinguished Speaker. She served as the ACM's Vice President from 2018-2020. In 2016, she received a Citris-Banatao Institute Award Athena Award for Women in Technology for her Executive Leadership. She has been named one of the top women leaders in UX over the last several years. And has received ACM SIGCHI's Lifetime Service Award (2023) and ACM's Lifetime Practice Award (2024).

• Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of Cambridge
• Master of Science in knowledge-based systems from University of Sussex
• Bachelor of Science in research and experimental psychology from the University of Sussex.

• SICHI Lifetime Service Award. 2023
• Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Stockholm for sustained impact on the field
• Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc.), University of Sussex, UK for continued contributions to the sciences underlying creative technology development.
• Citris Benatao Athena Award for Executive Leadership, 2016
• ACM Distinguished Scientist and Distinguished Speaker, 2016
• Elected member of ACM Computer Human Interaction (CHI) Academy, 2017
• US Patent 7,610,563 System and method for controlling the display of non-uniform graphical objects
• US Patent 7,546,143 Multi-channel quiet calls.
• US Patent 7,519,573 System and method for clipping, repurposing, and augmenting document content
• US Patent 7,251,316 Methods and systems for enabling conversations about task-centric physical objects
• US Patent 7,249,327 System and method for arranging, manipulating and displaying objects in a graphical user interface
• Patents (more available on Google Patent Search and on patentdocs).

Executive Committee

• Vice President of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Human Computer Interaction, SigCHI, 2008-present
• ACM SigCHIVice President of Chapters, including workshop organizations and communications with chapters, 2007-2008
• Association of University Teachers, Local Association Committee, Contract Research Staff Representative, 1994-1996

Conference Leadership

• Technical Program Committee: Personal Digital Archiving 2013
• General Chair: ACM Mobile HCI 2012, with Sri Subramanian
• Steering Committee: Mobile HCI, 2011-present
• Papers and Notes Co-Chair for Mobile HCI, Stockholm, Aug-Sept 2011 with Albrecht Schmidt
• Experience Demos Co-Chair: BCS HCI, July, 2011 with Patrick Olivier
• Panels Co-Chair: WWW 2010 Panels Co-Chair with Prabhakar Raghavan
• Co-Chair: CSCW 2010 Papers and Notes Co-Chair with Steve Whittaker
• Co-Chair: ACM CHI 2007 Technical Program, Notes Co-chair with Rob St. Amant
• Steering Committee: EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis in Organizations), 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Workshops Chair: EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis in Organizations), 2007
• Advisory Committee: ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI 2006), Best papers Award for CHI 2006
• Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI 2006), Student Design Competition, Montreal, 2006
• Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI 2006), Mentoring Program
• Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI 2006), Associate Program Chair
• Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Student Design Competition, Portland, April 2005
• Industrial Liaison, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Chicago, November 2004
• Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI), Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair, Vienna, Austria, April 2004
• Co-chair: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, New Orleans, November 2002
• Technical Program Co-chair: CVE 2002. Bonn, Germany in October 2002
• Co-chair: CHI 2000 Organizational Overview track, The Hague, April 2000
• Co-chair: CVE 2000, ACM Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments, San Francisco, September 2000
• Co-chair: CVE’98 Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments, held at The University of Manchester, UK, June 1998.
• Co-chair: CVE’96 Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments, held at The University of Nottingham in September, 1996.
• Technical Committee Secretary: Interact ‘90, Conference on Human Computer Interaction.

• Transforming HCI Research Cycles using Generative AI and “Large Whatever Models”(LWMs) P Elagroudy, J Li, K Väänänen, P Lukowicz, H Ishii, WE Mackay, ... Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing … 2024
• Supporting Workers in Developing Effective Collaboration Skills for Complex Work EJ Huang, K Garg, D Gómez-Zará, J Hui, C Kulkarni, M Massimi, ... Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported … 2023
• Andrew L. Kun, Elizabeth Churchill, Tamara L. Clegg, Jonathan Grudin, Kristina Höök, Daria Loi, Yolanda Rankin, Elizabeth Rosenzweig, Kentaro Toyama, and Susan Dray. 2022. SIGCHI at 40: celebrations and aspirations. interactions 29, 6 (November - December 2022), 24–29. https://doi.org/10.1145/3564036
• Andrew L. Kun, Elizabeth Churchill, Tamara L. Clegg, Jonathan Grudin, Kristina Höök, Daria Loi, Yolanda Rankin, Elizabeth Rosenzweig, Kentaro Toyama, and Susan Dray. 2022. SIGCHI at 40: celebrations and aspirations. interactions 29, 6 (November - December 2022), 24–29. https://doi.org/10.1145/3564036 2020
• " They Don't Leave Us Alone Anywhere We Go" Gender and Digital Abuse in South Asia N Sambasivan, A Batool, N Ahmed, T Matthews, K Thomas, ... proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems … 2019
• " Privacy is not for me, it's for those rich women": Performative Privacy Practices on Mobile Phones by Women in South Asia N Sambasivan, G Checkley, A Batool, N Ahmed, D Nemer, ... Fourteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2018), 127-142 2018
• King, R., Tan, C. and Churchill, E.F. Designing with Data: Improving the User Experience with A/B Testing. O'Reilly, 2017.
• Ritter, F. Baxter, G and Churchill, E. Foundations for User Centered Systems Design. Springer, May 2014.