Amanda Baughan
Research & Professional Experience
- UX Researcher, Google Maps, via TechPro (Nov 2024 - Present)
- Mixed-methods user research to inform data-driven design and product decisions
https://maps.google.com
- Researcher in Human-Computer Interaction, University of Washington User Empowerment Lab (Sept 2018 - Jun 2024)
- Mixed-method research to design, develop, and evaluate digital well-being
https://www.userempowerment.org
- Research Intern, Google Responsible AI (Sept 2021 - May 2022)
- Evaluated the impact of voice assistant failures on user trust
https://www.google.com
- UX Researcher, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) (Nov 2019 – Jun 2020)
- Improved human-AI interactions in research discovery
https://www.semanticscholar.org
- Operations Coordinator, Google, Mountain View, CA (Jun 2016 – Apr 2018)
- Technical consultant and point of contact for collaboration with engineering
- Projects spanned deprecating manual work via automation to evaluation of new systems
http://google.com
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Education
| Degree | Major | Institution | Graduation Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhDÂ | Computer Science | University of Washington | 2024 |
| MSÂ | Computer Science | University of Washington | 2020 |
| BA | Computer Science & Economics | University of Miami | 2016 |
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Awards
- Lesbians Who Tech Conference Scholarship, 2024
- Selected as Rising Star in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), 2023
- Best Paper Honorable Mention, ACM CHI Conference, 2021, 2023
- Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Scholarship , 2019
- Wilma Bradley Endowed First-Year Fellowship, University of Washington, 2018
- Foote Fellow, University of Miami, 2016
- Singer Scholarship, University of Miami, 2016
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Selected Media
- Why Social Media Makes People Unhappy—And Simple Ways to Fix It. Scientific American. 2022.
- How to Keep From Getting Lost in Mindless Social-Media Scrolling. Wall Street Journal. 2022.
- Arguments online are a toxic mess. Here’s how we fix them. KUOW (NPR). 2021.
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Graduate Courses Taken
- Research Design
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Quantitative Methods for Human-Computer Interaction
- Data Visualization
- Software Engineering
- Machine Learning for Big Data
- Natural Language Processing
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Teaching Experience
- Moral Reasoning and Interaction Design, Instructor
- Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction, Teaching Assistant
- Programming Essentials, Teaching Assistant
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Service
- Reviewer for CHI, IDC, CSCW, DIS conferences from 2019-Present
- Chair for UW CSE Diverse Genders in Computing student organization 2019-2020
- Volunteer with Long Haul Kitchen distributing meals and supplies to unhoused folks in Seattle 2023-Present
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Skills
- Research:
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)*User Experience (UX)*Social Computing*Responsible AI - Instructional Design:
Design Ethics*Project-based teaching - Programming Languages:
R*Python*Javascript*HTML - Web Frameworks:
React*Bootstrap - Databases:
MySQL
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Inspiration
- XO Higher Self. An advice podcast in which Bunny Michael guides listeners to their higher self: the manifestation of love within all humans.