Lisa Anthony is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preem ...

. She is also the director of the Intelligent Natural Interaction Technology Laboratory (INIT Lab). Her research interests revolve around developing

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s to allow for greater human-computer interaction, specifically for children as they develop their cognitive and physical abilities.

Education

Lisa Anthony earned her B.S. and M.S. in computer science with official concentrations in artificial intelligence, human-computer Interaction, and software engineering at

Drexel University Drexel University is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony Joseph Drexel, Anthony J. Drexel, a financier ...

. Her M.S. thesis involved using genetic programming to evolve board evaluation functions for the strategy board game

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. As a summer graduate intern, she worked on the Collaborative Exploratory Search project at the Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL). In 2008, she earned her Ph.D. from the Human Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

in 2008. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on developing handwriting-based systems for algebra equation-solving.

Career

Anthony was also a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, then a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems at the

University of Maryland, Baltimore County The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is a Public university, public research university in Catonsville, Maryland named after Baltimore County, Maryland, Baltimore County. It had a fall 2022 enrollment of 13,991 students, 61 un ...

. She worked on advanced user interface technologies as a senior member of the engineering staff at the User-Centered Interfaces Group at

Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) is a department of Lockheed Martin headquartered in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, that specializes in applied research and development. Additional facilities are located in Eagan, Minnesota, Kennesa ...

. She is an currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at University of Florida.

Awards and honors

National Science Foundation CAREER Award The National Science Foundation CAREER award is the most prestigious award presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States Federal Government to support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through rese ...

, 2016-2020 * HWCOE Undergraduate Faculty Adviser/Mentor of the Year, 2017-2018 * Special Recognition for Exceptional Reviewing, ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2014 * Best of 2013, ACM Computing Reviews, 2013 * Best Paper Award, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2013 * Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2012

Selected publications

Journal Articles * * * * Book Chapters * Anthony, L., Sharma, K., Stibler, K., Regli, S.H., Tremoulet, P. D., Gilbertson, D.G., and Gerhardt, R.T. 2010. Enabling Pre-Hospital Documentation via Spoken Language Understanding on the Modern Battlefield. In Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare (Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Human Factors & Ergonomics - AHFE’2010), ed. V.G. Duffy, CRC Press, p. 642-651

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