Team Members

Syed M. Billah

Assistant professor
email: sbillah@psu.edu

  • I manage A11y Lab

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email: <sbillah@psu.edu>

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: Modeling assistive technology-mediated interaction and optimizing user interface (UI) for low-vision users

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: Accessible computer programming, grid coding, and mid-air text entry

Mahjabin Nahar

PhD Student, started Fall 2022.
email: mfn5333@psu.edu

  • M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
  • Projects: Designing assistive tools and agents to retain students in online education

Collaborators (Students)

Jingyi Xie

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

  • Projects: Remote sighted assistance (RSA)

Rui Yu

PhD Student, started Fall 2018.
email: rzy54@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

Collaborators (Faculties)

Jack Carroll

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

Don Porter

Professor, CS, Univresity of North Carolina

Prasenjit Mitra

Professor, IST, Penn State
email: pum10@psu.edu

Md Alimoor Reza

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

Sooyeon Lee

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

Research Associate

Farhani Momotaz, MBBS, MS

MS in Informatics (Spring 2022), Penn State
email: fbm5122@psu.edu

  • Oversees the clinical aspects of assistive technologies
  • Research Interests: vision rehabilitation and medical decision-making with information visualization

MS and Undergraduate Students

Glenn Hubbard

Senior, Schreyer Honors College, Penn State
email: gch5121@psu.edu

  • Research Interest: Accessible Data Visualization

Zheyu Zhang

M.S. Student, Informatics, Penn State.
email: zxz5313@psu.edu

  • Research Interest: Accessible Data Visualization

Alumni

Chaeeun Han

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

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