Scott Hudson

Scott Hudson is a Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he served for many years as the founding director of the HCII PhD program. He was previously an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and prior to that an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Colorado in 1986.

Scott recieved the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award in 2021. He was elected to the CHI Academy in 2006, and has published extensively on technology-oriented HCI topics. He has received the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence at CMU, as well as the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award. He has regularly served on program committees for the SIGCHI and UIST conferences, He served as papers co-chair for the SIGCHI 2009 and 2010 conferences, Program Chair for the UIST '90 and UIST '00 conferences, as well as Symposium Chair for UIST '93, and the founding UIST Doctoral Symposium chair from 2003 to 2005. He currently serves as the Steering Committee chair for the UIST conference, and also served as a founding Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction. He has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, DARPA, Google, Microsoft, HP, Disney, Intel, GM, and IBM.