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Sara Kiesler is the Hillman Professor of Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She was elected to the CHI Academy in 2002, and was awarded CHI Lifetime Achievement Award, the most prestigious award by SIGCHI in 2009. She regularly serves on the ACM SIGCHI, CSCW, and HRI conference program committees. She is a past board member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Psychological Association, and a founding member of the American Psychological Society. She also is a director of the nonprofit research company, American Institutes for Research.

Dr. Kiesler has broad interests in the design and social impact of computing ranging from computer-supported cooperative work to human-robot interaction. In her early studies with Lee Sproull and our colleagues and students, she examined how computer networking changed group dynamics and social interaction. Her book, Connections, described the indirect, secondary effects of using email in organizations. Her current projects include studies of collaboration and virtual organization in science, research on how individuals and groups performing analysis use visualizations, and research in the cognitive and social aspects of human-robot interaction.