Team Members

Syed M. Billah

Assistant professor
email: sbillah@psu.edu

  • I manage A11y Lab

PhD Students

Md Touhidul Islam

PhD Student, started Spring 2021.
email: mqi5127@psu.edu

  • B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
  • Projects: Accessibility API in VR, UI Adpatation, and User Modeling.

Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque

PhD Student, started Spring 2021.
email: mfe5232@psu.edu

  • B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
  • Projects: Grid Coding and Multi-modal interaction.

Imran Kabir

PhD Student, started Fall 2023.
email: ibk5106@psu.edu

  • B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST)
  • Project: Input devices, Human-Centered AI

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email: <sbillah@psu.edu>

Student Collaborators

Jingyi Xie

PhD Student, started Fall 2020.
email: jzx5099@psu.edu

  • Projects: Remote sighted assistance (RSA)

Naimul Hoque

PhD Student, University of Maryland.
email: nhoque@umd.edu

  • Projects: Accessible data representation and data sonification

Faculty Collaborators

Jack Carroll

Professor, IST, Penn State
email: jmc56@psu.edu

Somayeh Asadi

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia
email: rkn3gr@virginia.edu

Krista Wilkinson

Distinguished Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD), College of Health and Human Development, Penn State
email: kmw22@psu.edu

Dawn Sowers

AAC Research and Clinical Outreach Coordinator, Assistant Research Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD), College of Health and Human Development, Penn State
email: djs6974@psu.edu

Sooyeon Lee

Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
email: sl287@njit.edu

Md Alimoor Reza

Assistant Professor, Department of Math and CS, Drake University
email: md.reza@drake.edu

Rui Yu

Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Louisville
email: R0YU0002@louisville.edu

Research Associate and Assistants

Tanuj Namdeo

MS in Computer Science, Penn State, 2023

Works on sensor fusion project

MS and Undergraduate Students

Aishwarya Chinchankar

MS in Informatics, Penn State

  • Research Interests: Designing intervention techniques for individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD)

Thomas (TJ) Kiedaisch

Summer 2024 Intern, Informatics, Penn State

  • Research Interest: Programming with AI

Sama Mehta

MS in Informatics (Spring 2024), Penn State

  • Research Interests: Understanding the coping mechanism of parents who have children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

Thomas (TJ) Kiedaisch

Summer 2024 Intern, Informatics, Penn State

  • Research Interest: Designing chatbots for individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD)

Alumni

Farhani Momotaz, MBBS, MS

MS in Informatics (Spring 2022), Penn State

  • Research Interests: vision rehabilitation, and attention management for neurodivergent individuals

Zheyu Zhang

M.S. Student (Spring 2024), Informatics, Penn State.

  • Research Interest: Locomotion techniques in VR

Yaun-Hao Hsu

MS in Informatics, Penn State, 2023

Studied how d/Deaf people communicate in VR

Mahjabin Nahar

Studied why students watched study-with-me videos.
email: mfn5333@psu.edu

Chaeeun Han

Worked while in M.S. program (2021), Informatics, Penn State
email: cfh5554@psu.edu

Glenn Hubbard

Senior, Schreyer Honors College, Penn State

  • Research Interest: Accessible Data Visualization

Kathleen Shatinsky

Undergraduate Student, Fall 2020, Informatics, Penn State

  • Research Interest: Executive Dysfunction

Rachel Bartuska

Undergraduate Student, Fall 2020, Penn State

  • Project: Assistive technologies in Automobiles

Lay Patel

MS in Computer Science, Penn State, 2023

Worked on multi-modal text correction.