I am a full professor in Informatics and the  Chair of Informatics at Indiana University – Bloomington.  I am interested in integrating pervasive technologies in health and wellness environments to study how technology affects interventions. My research interests include human computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and health informatics. Prior to returning to IU, I led the Wellness Innovation and Interaction Lab. (Formal Bio). Preferred pronouns: she/her/hers

Office Hours:

• I400/I590 office hours: Mondays from 12-1pm and 4-5pm; Wednesdays 4-5pm Eastern on zoom.  
• Chair office hours: Fridays from 3:30pm-4:45pm. First come, first served; max 15 minutes per person.

Past Position Handoff:  If you have questions for the Informatics Director of Undergraduate Studies, please contact Dr. Norman Su. If you have questions about the ProHealth graduate program, please contact Dr. James Clawson.

Study and Research Opportunities

• 10 funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates for Summer 2021. Students selected for the 8-week experience will receive travel to and from Bloomington, a $4800 stipend, free room and board, and GRE preparation (if wanted). More information.
• Consider applying for a scholarship for the Reset: Re-enter STEM Through Emerging Technology Conference

Current and Recent Activities

• CCC Quad Paper Contribution on Modernizing Data Control: Making Personal Digital Data Mutually Beneficial for Citizens and Industry with Sujata Banerjee (VMware Research), Yiling Chen (Harvard University), Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown University), David Parkes (Harvard University), and Lauren Wilcox (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Advisory Board member for Reset: Re-enter STEM Through Emerging Technology
• Awarded National Center for Women in IT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award (category: Senior Faculty member in research track at PhD granting university) (press release)
• Council member for the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (press release) (2019-2021)
• Co-PI with Amanda Lazar (U. of Maryland) on a National Science Foundation funded Toolkits for Aging in Place for Older Retirees (TAIPOR)
• CHI 2020 Health Subcommittee Co-Chair with Maria Wolters (Edinburgh), Madhu Reddy (Northwestern), and Marilyn Lennon (Strathclyde)
• Co-chaired with Tiffany Veinot (U. of Michigan) a CCC CRA funded workshop on Sociotechnical Interventions for Health Disparity Reduction: A Research Agenda (Final Report)
• Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundation supported Research Experience for Undergraduates ProHealth Site (2016-2018; renewed 2019-2022)
• Informatics Researcher for the IU Grand Challenges Precision Health Initiative

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Indiana University, 2006
• M.S., Computer Science, Indiana University, 2004
• B.S., Computer Science, Eckerd College, 2000

Professional

• CV (Last Update: 12/2020)
• Need a letter of recommendation?
• Note to Incoming Students

Current Student Collaborators

• Ben Jelen, M.S. (IU Ph.D. Student, TAIPOR)
• Pallabi Bhowmick (IU Ph.D. Student, IU Rural Check-In Project)

Past Research Collaborators

• Susan Monsey (IU B.S. Student, TAIPOR, Northrop Grumman)
• Briana Hollins (IU B.S. Student, Precision Health Project)
• Madison Hallowell (Bates College Student, IU Rural Check-In Project)
• Adileah Smith (U. Indy Student, IU Rural Check-In Project)
• Cassie Kresnye (IU Ph.D. Student, Precision Health)
• Yuxing Wu (IU Ph.D. Student, Precision Health)
• Carla Cobb (DePauw University B.S. Student, Precision Health Project)
• Vanessa Pereira, B.S. (2019, IU B.S. Student, Yours is Better Project)
• Haley MacLeod, Ph.D. (2018, Rare Disease Project, Facebook)
• Shayan Khokar, B.S. (2018, IU B.S. Student, Computer Science, Muscle Memory Project, Amazon)
• Olivia Richards, B.S. (Penn State 2019, U. Michigan PhD)
• Samantha Whitman, B.S, M.S. (Arizona State University B.S. 2016, ASU Ph.D. Student)
• Anne Freeman, B.S. (Georgetown University 2019,  Applied Predictive Technologies (APT))
• Mina Narayanan, B.S. (Auburn University 2019)
• Leslie Liu, Ph.D. (PhD U. of Washington 2015, Trunk Club)
• Majdah Alshehri (IU Ph.D. Student, Women’s Health)
• Annu Prabhakar (IU Ph.D. Student, Mothers Information Technology Project)
• Christopher Schaefbauer, Ph.D. (2016, Health Bridge Project, Amazon)
• Swaminathan Ananthanarayan, Ph.D. (2015, Health Sense Project, U. of Oldenburg)
• Danish U. Khan, Ph.D. (2013, Health Bridge Project, InCorta)
• Kimberly Oakes, M.S. (2015, Muscle Memory Project,Adpearance)
• Allison Brown (Ph.D. Student)
• Halley Profita (Ph.D. Student)
• Gerald Pulver (Ph.D. Student, Wardenburg EMR Project, U. of Colorado Anschutz)
• Tuong An (Amy) Le (B.S. 2014)
• Noelle Beaujon (B.S. 2014, Microsoft)
• Mackenzie Miller (B.S. 2013; Raytheon)
• Maryam Gooyabadi (B.S., 2010)
• Alice Chien (B.S. 2015 – Deloitte Digital)
• Miranda Sheh (B.S. 2015 – Ambi Labs)
• Nate Lapinski (B.S. 2014 – SpotXchange)
• Sara Zhang (IU B.S. Student – RightRez, Inc.)
• Erin Leonhard (IU B.S. Student – Qualtrics)

Contact Information

Katie A. Siek, Ph.D.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Full Professor
Indiana University
Informatics
919 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47408 USA

twitter: @katiesiek
email as faculty member: ksiek – at – indiana.edu
email as chair: ichair – at – indiana.edu
office: (812) 856-0598
fax: (812) 856-5754

Need an appointment with me? Come to my Chair office hours – Fridays 3:30-4:45p https://iu.zoom.us/my/profsiek. Need a different time? Rachael Lee (rachalee – at – iu.edu) will be able to coordinate alternative meeting times for me.

My office is located at Informatics East (Connector), Room 260. Parking information is available here.