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Leysia Palen Department of Information Science Department of Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder http://cmci.colorado.edu/~palen/ [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D., University of California, Irvine (1998) Information and Computer Science M.S., University of California, Irvine (1995) Information and Computer Science B.S., University of California, San Diego (1991) Cognitive Science University of Stirling, Scotland (1988-1989) Computer Science & Psychology RESEARCH INTERESTS Human-computer interaction (HCI); human-centered computing (HCC); computer supported cooperative work (CSCW); crisis informatics; mobile society; social analysis of information & communication technology. AWARDS Max S. Peters Service Award, College of Engineering & Applied Science, 2018 CHI Academy, Elected 2016 CHI Social Impact Award, 2015 Women Who Make a Difference Award 2012, University of Colorado Boulder Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award 2012, University of Colorado Boulder NSF CAREER, 2006 Paper Awards Best Paper Nomination, HICSS 2019 Honorable Mention Paper (top 5% of submissions), CHI 2017 Best Paper Nomination (top 5% of submissions), CSCW2015 Best Paper Nomination (top 5% of submissions), ISCRAM2014 Best Paper Award (top 1% of submissions), CSCW2013 Most Cited Paper from the CSCW 2002 Conference (10 Year Retrospective in 2012) Best Paper Nomination, CHI2011 Best Paper Nomination, CSCW2010 Best Paper Nomination, ISCRAM2009 Awards to Palen’s Students NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to Melissa Bica (2016-2019) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention to Jennings Anderson (2015) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to Kate Starbird (2009-2012) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to Sophia Liu (2006-2009) Best Student Paper Nom. to Robert Soden (Palen & others are co-authors), ISCRAM2015 Best Student Paper Award to Robert Soden (Palen & others are co-authors), ISCRAM2014 Best Student Paper Nom. to Lise St. Denis (Palen & others are co-authors), ISCRAM2014 Best Student Paper Cumulative Award to A Hughes, S Liu, S Vieweg), ISCRAM2008 1 Team in CHI2012 Student Design Competition Finals (top 4 out of field of 60) 3 Teams in CHI2012 Student Design Competition Semi-Finals (top 16 out of field of 60) Palen, 31 January 2021, page 1 RESEARCH GRANTS NOAA Hurricane Supplemental Grant Wait, that forecast changed? Assessing how publics consume and process changing tropical cyclone forecasts over time. Leysia Palen (PI). Kenneth Mark Anderson (Co-PI). Subcontract from NCAR, PI Morss. CU Portion: ~$40,000 10/2019-6/2021 National Science Foundation, CISE Directorate, CHS Division CHS: MEDIUM: Hyperlocal and Hypertemporal Information in Mass Emergency Events: Next Generation Crisis Informatics Data Collection & Analytics ~$1,200,000. Kenneth M. Anderson (PI). Jordan Boyd-Graber, Leysia Palen (Co-PIs). 9/2016-8/2021 National Science Foundation, CISE Directorate, CHS Division CHS: SMALL: The Future of Geospatial Data: The Analytics and Implications of Open Source Mapping ~$499,367.00. Kenneth M. Anderson (PI). Co-PI: Leysia Palen. 9/2015-8/2020 Facebook Academic Program Gift $25,000 Awarded to Leysia Palen June 2015 National Science Foundation, CMMI Division/Engineering Directorate RIPS Type 1: The Interdependence of Built, Social, and Information Infrastructures in Community Resilience: A New Framework and Participatory Process $292K. Abbie Liel (PI). Co-PIs: Shideh Dashti, Bruce Goldstein, Amy Javernick-Will, Leysia Palen. 10/2014-9/2015 National Science Foundation, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences HAZARDS SEES: Hazard Prediction & Communication Dynamics in the Modern Information Environment. $1.1M, CU Portion. Leysia Palen (PI). Co-PIs: Kenneth M. Anderson, James Martin, Martha Palmer Total $2.4M, NCAR Principal Investigator: Rebecca Morss 9/2013- 8/2017 National Science Foundation, CISE Directorate, Human-Centered Computing Award WORKSHOP: 2012 Computer Supported Cooperative Work Doctoral Consortium $25,994. Leysia Palen (PI) awarded 2011-2012 National Science Foundation, CISE Directorate, IIS Division Award HCC LARGE: Widescale Computer-Mediated Communication in Crisis Response: Roles, Trust and Accuracy in the Social Distribution of Information (CU/UCI Collaboration), aka Project EPIC: Empowering the Public with Information in Crisis ($2.8M total) $2.8M. Leysia Palen (PI); Co-PIs: Kenneth M. Anderson, Gloria Mark, James H. Martin, Doug Sicker 9/2009-8/2015 National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, IIS/Digital Society and Technologies Program CAREER: Data in Disaster $599,991, Leysia Palen (PI), 2006-2011 University of Colorado at Boulder Match for NSF CAREER Data in Disaster Match $40,00. Leysia Palen (PI), 2006-2011 Intel Gift Hurricane Katrina Research $11,000. Leysia Palen (PI). September 2005 Palen, 31 January 2021, page 2 National Science Foundation, CISE Directorate, Computation and Social Systems Program Local and Global Calendaring $399,591. Leysia Palen (PI), 1999-2003 University of California President's Dissertation Year Fellowship (1997-98) National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1994-97) University of California-Irvine, Eugene Cota-Robles Doctoral Fellowship (1993-94) PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE University of Colorado Boulder Administration Founding Chairperson Department of Information Science Jan 1, 2015- June 2019 Associate Chair of Graduate Studies Department of Information Science July 1- current University of Colorado Boulder 2015-present: Professor of Information Science and Professor of Computer Science Co-Director: Project EPIC (2009-2020) Co-Director: Center for Software & Society (2010- present) 2012- 2015: Associate Professor with tenure 2010- 2012: Associate Professor 2004- 2010: Assistant Professor 1998- 2004: Assistant Research Professor University of Agder, Norway 2012-2017: Adjunct Full Professor Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences University of Aarhus, Denmark 2005-2006: Visiting Professor Department of Computer Science US WEST Advanced Technologies Summer 1999: Consultant, Design and Usability Group Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Fall 1995 and Summer 1996: Consultant and Intern, Collaborative Systems Area Microsoft Corporation June 1994-Sept. 1994: Usability Specialist Intern, Usability Group The Boeing Company Aug. 1991-Aug. 1993: Research Associate, Flight Deck Research, Boeing Commercial Airplane Division PUBLICATIONS (Asterisks indicate PhD student collaborators) H-index=61, Citations= 18772 per Google Scholar as of 31 January 2021 Palen, 31 January 2021, page 3 Edited Book Harper, Richard, Leysia Palen and Alex Taylor (Eds.) (2005). The Inside Text: Social Perspectives on SMS in the Mobile Age. Kluwer: Netherlands. Journal Articles Bica, Melissa, Joy Weinberg and Leysia Palen (2020). Achieving Accuracy through Ambiguity: the Interactivity of Risk Communication in Severe Weather Events. Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Springer, 29(5), pp 587-623. Anderson, Jennings, Dipto Sarkar, Leysia Palen (2019). Corporate Editors in the Evolving Landscape of OpenStreetMap. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, v8(5), 232, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8050232 Demuth, Julie L, Rebecca E Morss, Leysia Palen, Kenneth M Anderson, Jennings Anderson*, Marina Kogan*, Kevin Stowe*, Melissa Bica*, Heather Lazrus, Olga Wilhelmi, Jen Henderson (2018). “sometimes da #beachlife ain’t always da wave”: Understanding People’s Evolving Hurricane Risk Communication, Risk Assessments, and Responses Using Twitter Narratives (2018). Weather, Climate and Society, 10, pp. 537-560. Anderson, Jennings*, Robert Soden*, Brian Keegan, Kenneth M. Anderson and Leysia Palen (2018). The Crowd is the Territory: Assessing quality in Peer-Produced Spatial Data During Disasters, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (Special Issue on Social Media in Crisis Management). Morss, Rebecca, Julie L Demuth, Heather Lazrus, Leysia Palen, C Michael Barton, Christopher A Davis, Chris Snyder, Olga V Wilhelmi, Kenneth M Anderson, David A Ahijevych, Jennings Anderson*, Melissa Bica*, Kathryn R Fossell, Jennifer Henderson, Marina Kogan*, Kevin Stowe*, Joshua Watts (2017). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), December 2017, pp. 2653-2674. Palen, Leysia and Kenneth M. Anderson (2016). Crisis Informatics—New Data for Extraordinary Times. Science, Vol 353, Issue 6296, 15 Jul 2016, pp. 224-225. DOI: 10.1126/science.aag2579. Anderson, K., Schram*, A., Alzabarah*, A., and Palen, L. (2013). Architectural Implications of Social Media Analytics in Support of Crisis Informatics Research, In IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, 36(3), 13-20. Hughes, Amanda* and Leysia Palen (2012). The Evolving Role of the Public Information Officer: An Examination of Social Media in Emergency Management, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Volume 9, Issue 1 ISSN (Online) 1547-7355, DOI:10.1515/1547-7355.1976, June 2012. Palen, Leysia, Sarah Vieweg*, Kenneth M. Anderson (2011). Supporting “Everyday Analysts” in Safety- and Time-Critical Situations. The Information Society Journal, 27 (1), pp. 52-62. Liu, Sophia* and Leysia Palen (2010). The New Cartographers: Crisis Map Mashups and the Emergence of Neogeographic Practice. Special Issue on Mapping Hazards and Disasters in the Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS) Journal, 37 (1), pp. 69-90. Hughes, Amanda* and Leysia Palen (2009). Twitter Adoption and Use in Mass Convergence and Emergency Events. International Journal of Emergency Management, 6 (3/4), pp 248-260.