Amanda Lazar

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Congratulations to Dr. Hu who presented an excellent dissertation in Fall 2026!

We recieved an honorable mention award at CHI 2026 for this paper which argues that changes in technology affect all of us as we age

I am an Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, where I direct The Health, Aging, and Technology (THAT) Lab. I have an affiliate appointment with the Department of Computer Science and am a a part of the HCIL and the TRACE RERC.

My research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Health Informatics. I study the design of technologies for older people, with a special interest in cognitive impairment. My work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, including a CAREER grant, and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, and has been written about in the New Yorker, Wired Magazine, and the New York Times.

I received my PhD from the University of Washington in the Biomedical and Health Informatics program, where I was funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the National Library of Medicine predoctoral fellowship. After my PhD, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Technology and Social Behavior program at Northwestern University. I completed my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.