I am currently a Professor of the Computational Media Department, Baskin Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz.
I am also currently serving as (although they might be a bit out of date soon enough):
- Advisory board member of UCSC Center for Reimagining Leadership
- Advisory board member of Immergo Lab, LLC.
- UCSC faculty lead for the National Academies of Sciences’ Action Collaborative on Trajectories of Women of Color in Tech
- UCSC mentor for Asia Pacific Women in Leadership program runs by Association of Pacific Rim Universities
- UCSC faculty lead for an NSF Engineering Research Center proposal written jointly by the Alliance of Hispanics Serving Research University
- Affiliate faculty of the UCSC ‘s Global and Community Health
- Affiliate faculty of the UCSC Genomics Institute
Contact detail:
Mailing address: SOE-3, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Physical Office: Engineering 2 building, UCSC Santa Cruz campus, Room 371.
Phone: +1-831-459-1037 (but email is preferred)
Email: skurnia (at) ucsc.edu
My lab is called ASSIST, which stands for Assistive Sociotechnical Solutions for Individuals with Special needs using Technology.
Appointments
- 2024-now: Associate Dean for Research, Baskin Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
- 2017-now: Professor, Computational Media Department, UC Santa Cruz
- 2011-2016: Associate Professor, Computational Media and Computer Engineering Departments, UC Santa Cruz
- July 16, 2012 – Aug 15, 2012: Visiting Professor, International Islamic University Malaysia
- 06/16/08 – 09/12/08 Visiting researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
- 2007-2011: Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, UC Santa Cruz
- 2001-2007: Lecturer (it’s Assistant/Associate Professor in US academic term), School of Informatics (formerly Department of Computation, UMIST) and Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester
- 1995-1997: Senior Field Engineer, Halliburton Energy Services
- 1993-1995: Wireline Field Engineer, Schlumberger S.A.
Education
- 2006-now: Higher Education Academy Fellow
- 2004: A member of the Higher Education Academy through an accredited route
- 2003: Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, The University of Manchester
- 2001: Ph.D. in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, major in HCI, minor in Computer Science from Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA. Dissertation: Using GOMS to model age-related differences in browsing online hierarchies
- 1998: MPhil in Human Factors from Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong , China. Thesis: Evaluating Subjective Ratings of Computer Icons for Chinese Users
- 1993: BEng in Electronics Engineering, major in Telecommunications, minor in Computation from Department of Electronics Engineering, Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga, Indonesia.