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About

I am a Professor in the School of Science, Technology, Accessibility, Mathematics and Public Health at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. I am also a Director of the Bachelor of Science Information Technology program, and Co-Director of the Accessible Human-Centered Computing Program  Our IT and AHCC program has grown rapidly in the past few years.

I primarily teach human-centered computing with a focus on accessible computing, and application development courses. I also teach cybersecurity related courses at both the introductory and specialized levels.

My research interests encompass the fields of accessible computing and accessibility/intellectual property law, with the goal of improving information access for deaf and hard of hearing individuals. In the accessible computing field, I investigate information access disparities between hearing and deaf. For example, I investigate how deaf individuals acquire information through speech-to-text, e.g., enhanced captions that provide visual cues to non-speech information.

In the accessibility/intellectual property law field, I advocate for updates in accessible and intellectual property law, to incorporate accessible computing advances such as automatic captioning/subtitling.

I have published several peer-reviewed publications and received grants in the fields of accessible computing, accessible law and intellectual property law. 

Info for Students

I love meeting, mentoring, and working with students. I enjoy watching students develop their passion and interests from their first course with us to their final Capstone project. I get many requests from students. This page is intended to provide some common information about the most common requests I get.

General Advice and Chatting

Drop by my office any time during my office hours. My office hours change each semester but can always be found outside my office door. If you want to discuss something for a long period of time (more than 15 minutes) email me so we can set up a dedicated time.

Letters of Recommendation

I get many requests for letters of recommendation, and I am usually happy to write them. However, writing strong recommendation letters takes time, and I ask that students provide some information to help me write the strongest letter I can:

  • Book a meeting with me to discuss why you need the letter and the scope of the letter(s) you'll need. This helps me get an idea of how to tailor your letter.
  • After our meeting, please email me your statement of purpose (usually for applications to academic programs) or a sample cover letter (for job applications) and your resume. These do not need to be final documents; drafts are OK. These help fill in gaps and tell me things about you outside of your academic performance. There is no need to send me your transcript if you are a current student.
  • In your email, please include a list of programs or jobs you are applying to, the date by which the letter needs to be submitted, and how the letter is to be submitted. This list helps me keep track of what letters I need to complete.
  • Please ask 2 weeks in advance the first time I write a letter for you. After I've written an initial letter, I can usually update it quickly. This deadline means you need to have the above materials to me well in advance.
  • I will send you an email as I complete each letter and submit it. If you have not heard from me, assume I have not submitted your letter yet. Do not be afraid to send me an email to ask for a status update or a gentle reminder.
  • Let me know what happens! I always want if you got the job or got into the program. Please drop me a quick email and fill me in!

Currently Teaching

AHC-605 Accessibility Standards I Credits: 3
ITS-395 Special Topics Credits: 1-5
ITS-499 Independent Study Credits: 1-3
  • BIO-403 Senior Capstone I (2018/01)(01)
  • CHE-403 Capstone in Chemistry (2018/01)(01)
  • GSR-230 Scientific and Quantitative Re (2017/01)(03)
  • ITS-311 Intro to Mobile App Developmen (2016/01)(01)
  • ITS-311 Intro to Mobile App Developmen (2017/01)(01)
  • ITS-311 Intro to Mobile App Developmen (2018/01)(01)
  • ITS-311 Intro to Mobile App Developmen (2019/01)(01)
  • ITS-371 Human Computer Interaction (2016/02)(01)
  • ITS-371 Human Computer Interaction (2017/02)(01)
  • ITS-371 Human Computer Interaction (2018/02)(01)
  • ITS-371 Human Computer Interaction (2019/02)(01)
  • ITS-395 Special Topics (2017/01)(02)
  • ITS-491 Senior Capstone Project I (2018/01)(01)
  • ITS-492 Senior Capstone Project II (2017/02)(01)
  • ITS-492 Senior Capstone Project II (2018/02)(01)
  • ITS-492 Senior Capstone Project II (2019/02)(01)
  • ITS-495 Special Topics (2016/01)(01)
  • ITS-495 Special Topics (2016/02)(01)
  • ITS-495 Special Topics (2016/02)(02)
  • ITS-499 Independent Study (2018/02)(01)
  • ITS-499 Independent Study (2019/02)(02)
  • MAT-403 Senior Capstone in Mathematics (2018/01)(01)
  • PSY-395 Special Topics (2016/02)(01)
  • PSY-395 Special Topics (2019/02)(01)
  • STM-403 Senior Capstone (2020/01)(02)
  • ITS-311 Intro to Mobile App Developmen (2020/02)(01)
  • ITS-492 Senior Capstone Project II (2020/02)(01)
  • PSY-799 Independent Study (2020/02)(02)
  • ITS-311 Intro to Mobile App Developmen (2021/01)(01)
  • ITS-395 Special Topics (2022/01)(1)
  • ITS-499 Independent Study (2022/01)(1)
  • GSR-300 General Studies Capstone (2021/02)(OL3)
  • ITS-499 Independent Study (2021/02)(1)
  • GSR-300 General Studies Capstone (2021/03)(OL3)
  • ITS-499 Independent Study (2021/03)(1)
  • ITS-492 Senior Capstone Project II (2021/02)(01)
  • AHC-605 Accessibility Standards I (2022/01)(1)
  • ITS-495 Special Topics (2022/02)(01)
  • ITS-395 Special Topics (2023/01)(01)
  • AHC-605 Accessibility Standards I (2023/01)(01)
  • Honors Capstone (2021/02)
  • Patricia Schmidt Honors Capstone (2022/01)
  • Bailey Moers Honors Capstone - Reader (2022/01)
  • Sean Fenton - Honors Capstone (2016/02)
  • Advising Load 2020/01: Total:18 Undergraduate:17 Doctoral:1
  • Advising Load 2019/02: Total:15 Undergraduate:14 Doctoral:1
  • Advising Load 2019/01: Total:15 Undergraduate:14 Doctoral:1
  • Advising Load 2018/02: Total:14 Undergraduate:13 Doctoral:1
  • Advising Load 2018/01: Total:13 Undergraduate:12 Doctoral:1
  • Advising Load 2017/02: Total:13 Undergraduate:13
  • Advising Load 2017/01: Total:9 Undergraduate:9
  • Advising Load 2016/02: Total:9 Undergraduate:9
  • Advising Load 2016/01: Total:8 Undergraduate:8
  • Advising Load 2020/02: Total:18 Undergraduate:17 Doctoral:1
  • Advising Load 2021/01: Total:12 Undergraduate:10 Doctoral:2
  • Advising Load 2021/02: Total:12 Undergraduate:10 Doctoral:2
  • Advising Load 2022/01: Total:15 Undergraduate:10 Masters:3 Doctoral:2
  • Advising Load 2022/02: Total:16 Undergraduate:10 Masters:5 Doctoral:1
  • Advising Load 2023/01: Total:16 Undergraduate:10 Masters:5 Doctoral:1
  • Advising Load 2023/02: Total:16 Undergraduate:10 Masters:5 Doctoral:1
  • AHC-603 Applied Comm Accessibility (2022/02)(01)
  • AHC-691 Thesis Accessibility Proj Plan (2023/01)(01)
  • AHC-692 Accessibility Internship (2023/01)(01)
  • AHC-693 Thesis Accessibili Proj Report (2023/01)(01)
  • ITS-495 Special Topics (2023/02)(01)
  • AHC-603 Applied Comm Accessibility (2023/02)(01)
  • AHC-691 Thesis Accessibility Proj Plan (2023/03)(OL1)
  • AHC-692 Accessibility Internship (2023/03)(OL1)
  • AHC-691 Thesis Accessibility Proj Plan (2022/03)(01)
  • AHC-692 Accessibility Internship (2022/03)(01)
  • AHC-605 Accessibility Standards I (2024/01)(01)
  • ITS-395 Special Topics (2024/01)(01)
  • ITS-499 Independent Study (2024/01)(01)
  • How deaf adult signers experience implants: Some preliminary conclusions
  • Impact of the Copyright Limitation for Sensory Disabilities on Assistive Technology
  • Balancing Perceptually Disabled Consumers' Rights Against Copyright Holders' Rights
  • Empowering Deaf Students with Multiple Views
  • Multiple View Scalability of Presentations Distributed to Heterogeneous Devices
  • Evaluation of a scalable and distributed mobile device video recording approach for accessible presentations
  • A comparison of P2P approaches in handling multiple video perspective streams by mobile devices to support a more inclusive learning environment
  • Multi-view platform: An Accessible Live Classroom Viewing Device
  • Cochlear Implants: Evolving Perspectives
  • Efficacy of a Direct Learning Tool for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
  • Kushalnagar FOCUS 2012
  • Deaf and Hearing Students' Eye Gaze Collaboration
  • Assistive View Replay for Deaf Students
  • Maximizing content learning for deaf students and English as a second language students
  • Collaborative Gaze Cues for Deaf Students
  • Detecting hand-palm orientation and hand shapes for sign language gesture recognition using 3D images
  • Real-time captioning by groups of non-experts
  • Community-Based Participatory Approach: Students as Partners in Educational Accessible Technology Research
  • Technical Resources Available for STEM Students
  • Adapting STEM lectures for culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms
  • American Sign Language: Maximum Live Replay Speed
  • A transition community for deaf and hard of hearing students in information technology programs
  • Legion scribe: Real-time captioning by the non-experts
  • Optimal Viewing Distance for Deaf Signers
  • Computers Helping People with Special Needs
  • Live and Collaborative Gaze Review for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
  • Designing an Accessible Broadband Peer Community for Students with Sensory Disabilities
  • Legion scribe
  • AVD-LV: An accessible player for captioned STEM videos
  • Accessible Views for Interpreters
  • Improving classroom visual accessibility with cooperative smartphone recordings
  • Optimal Viewing Distance between Deaf Viewers and Interpreters
  • Tracked speech-to-text display: Enhancing accessibility and readability of speech-to-text
  • Enhancing Accessibility of Engineering Lectures for Deaf & Hard of Hearing (DHH): Real-time Tracking Text Displays (RTTD) in Classrooms
  • Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
  • A Survey on Video Relay Service Application Interface Preferences
  • Inclusive Learning through Real-time Tracking Display of Captions
  • Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology
  • Scribe: Deep integration of human and machine intelligence to caption speech in real time
  • Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Hearing Perspectives on Using Automatic Speech Recognition in Conversation
  • Feasibility of Using Automatic Speech Recognition with Voices of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals
  • Closed ASL Interpreting for Online Videos
  • Enhancing participation of deaf engineering students in lab discussion
  • Wear It Loud: How and Why Hearing Aid and Cochlear Implant User customize their Devices
  • Making Cancer Health Text on the Internet Easier to Read for Deaf People Who Use American Sign Language
  • User Evaluation of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems for Deaf-Hearing Interactions at School and Work
  • Critical health literacy in American deaf college students
  • Welcoming Deaf Students into STEM: Recommendations for University Science Education
  • A Transition Community for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Engineering Programs
  • RTTD-ID: Tracked Captions with Multiple Speakers for Deaf Students
  • Multimodal Visual Languages User Interface for Deaf Readers
  • Accessibility of Voice-Activated Agents for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
  • A Classroom Accessibility Analysis App for Deaf Students
  • Video Remote Interpreting Technology in Health Care: Cross-Sectional Study of Deaf Patients' Experiences
  • Human-Computer Interaction Series
  • Mixed Reality Speaker Identification as an Accessibility Tool for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users
  • Expressive ASL Recognition using Millimeter-wave Wireless Signals
  • Sign Language Interfaces: Discussing the Field's Biggest Challenges
  • Alexa, Can You See Me? Making Individual Personal Assistants for the Home Accessible to Deaf Consumers.
  • mmASL: Environment-Independent ASL Gesture Recognition Using 60 GHz Millimeter-wave Signals
  • Workshop for Emerging Deaf and Hard of Hearing Scientists: A White Paper
  • Preferences of Deaf or Hard of Hearing Users for Live-TV Caption Appearance
  • Social, Environmental, and Technical: Factors at Play in the Current Use and Future Design of Small-Group Captioning
  • The FATE Landscape of Sign Language AI Datasets
  • Effect of caption width on the TV user experience by deaf and hard of hearing viewers
  • Teleconference Accessibility and Guidelines for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users
  • Social, Environmental, and Technical: Factors at Play in the Current Use and Future Design of Small-Group Captioning
  • Accessible Technology and the Developing World
  • Teleconference Sign Language Detection
  • Caption UI/UX - Display Emotive and Paralinguistic Information in Captions
  • The FATE Landscape of Sign Language AI Datasets: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
  • How To Deliver an Accessible Online Presentation
  • Google Explore Computer Science Research (eCSR)- (Google)
  • 21st Century Captioning- (NIDILRR)
  • Wearable Sound Sensing- (National Science Foundation)
  • REU AICT- (National Science Foundation)
  • MITRE COE TRS- (MITRE)
  • REU AMI- (National Science Foundation)
  • C-Print Attention- (RIT)
  • IP CTS Assessment- (MITRE)
  • Health Text Accessibility- (RIT)
  • Real Time Captioning- (National Science Foundation)
  • PLIG Visual Cues- (RIT)
  • Eye Gaze Control- (RIT)
  • ASL Avatars- (RIT)
  • Visual Cues for DHH Students- (RIT)
  • Community Mentoring- (Time Warner Research)
  • Windows Phones- (Microsoft)
  • Multiple View Perspectives- (NTID)
  • DHH Cybercommunity- (National Science Foundation)
  • BPC-AE: AccessComputing Fourth Extension- (National Science Foundation)
  • DASS: Designing Accountable Artificial Intelligence Services for People with Diverse Sensory Abilities- (National Science Foundation)
  • CONSENT-ASL Toolkit for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People- (National Institutes of Health (1G08LM013797-01))
  • Gallaudet GenCyber Camp for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing High School Students (GGC-DHHS)- (National Security Agency)
  • Welcoming Deaf Students into STEM: Recommendations for University Science Education.
  • Ethical Deaf Futures: AI, Avatars & Technoscience
  • Disability and Accessibility in Computer Science Education
  • Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Individuals' Preferences for Wearable and Mobile Sound Awareness Technologies
  • Introduction to Legal Issues in Human-Computer Interaction
  • A Classroom Accessibility Analysis App for Deaf Students
  • Mixed Reality Speaker Identification as an Accessibility Tool for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users
  • mmASL: Environment-Independent ASL Gesture Recognition Using 60 GHz Millimeter-wave Signals
  • Teleconference Accessibility and Guidelines for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users
  • Effect of caption width on the TV user experience by deaf and hard of hearing viewers
  • Disability in Computer Science Education
  • ???Easier or Harder, Depending on Who the Hearing Person Is???: Codesigning Videoconferencing Tools for Small Groups with Mixed Hearing Status
  • Who is speaking: Unpacking In-text Speaker Identification Preference of Viewers who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing while Watching Live Captioned Television Program
  • Effect of caption width on the TV user experience by deaf and hard of hearing viewers
  • Shane Angel-Information Technology (Honors Capstone) 2020/02
  • Oliver Alonzo-PhD CS, Rochester Institute of Technology (Doctoral Committee) 2020/02-2022/02
  • Sedeeq Al-Khazraji-PhD CS, Rochester Institute of Technology (Doctoral Committee) 2020/01-2021/01
  • Larwan Berke-Computer Science (Doctoral Committee) 2018/01-2020/02
  • Sean Fenton-Information Technology (Honors) 2016/01-2016/02
  • Patricia Schmidt-Business (Honors) 2019/01-2019/02
  • Bailey Moers-Mathematics (Honors) 2018/01-2018/02
  • Akhter Al-Amin-PhD in CS, Rochester Institute of Technology (Doctoral Committee) 2020/02
  • Uncontrolled: Chair 2020/02
  • Uncontrolled: Chair 2020/02
  • Uncontrolled: Member 2020/01
  • Uncontrolled: Member 2020/01
  • Uncontrolled: Member 2020/01
  • Uncontrolled: Chair 2019/01
  • Uncontrolled: Chair 2018/02-2018/02
  • Uncontrolled: Member 2020/01
  • Uncontrolled: Member 2020/01
  • Uncontrolled: Member 2020/01
  • Uncontrolled: Member 2020/01
  • Uncontrolled: Member 2020/01
  • Uncontrolled: Member 2020/01
  • Uncontrolled: Member 2020/01
  • Uncontrolled: Member 2020/01
  • Si Chen-Computer Science, University of Illinois (Doctoral Committee) 2023/01
  • Local Chair: ACM ASSETS - Baltimore, MD 2020/02-2021/01
  • SRC Competition Chair: ACM ASSETS - Athens, Greece 2019/02-2020/01
  • Accessibility Co-Chair: ACM ASSETS - Pittsburgh, PA 2018/02-2019/01
  • Accessibility Co-Chair: ACM ASSETS - Galway, Ireland 2017/02-2018/01
  • Treasurer and Registration Chair: ACM ASSETS - Baltimore, MD 2016/02-2017/01
  • Accessibility Chair: ACM ASSETS - Reno, NV 2015/02-2016/01
  • Caption Challenge Chair: ACM ASSETS - Lisbon, Portugal 2014/02-2015/01
  • Accessibility Chair: ACM ASSETS - Lisbon, Portugal 2014/02-2015/01
  • Captioning Challenge Chair: ACM ASSETS - Rochester, NY 2013/02-2014/01
  • Accessibility Chair: ACM ASSETS - Rochester, NY 2013/02-2014/01
  • Organizing Committee: ACM Symposium on Sign Translation and Avatars - Chicago IL 2012/02-2013/01
  • Accessibility Chair: ACM ASSETS - Bellevue, WA 2012/02-2013/01
  • Accessibility Chair: ACM ASSETS, Boulder, CO 2011/02-2012/01
  • Board of Directors - Member: Global Alliance of Speech-To-Text Captioning 2019/01
  • Member: Computing Research Association - Widening Participation (CRA-WP) 2019/01
  • Member: Association of Computing Machinery - Computer-Human Interaction Steering Committee (ACM-CHI SC) 2020/01
  • Board of Trustees - Member: New York School for the Deaf - Fanwood 2018/01-2020/02
  • Member: Teach Access 2020/02
  • Building Supportive Communities: Clery Act and Title IX (Full Course): Washington, District of Columbia 2022/02-2022/02
  • Diversity: Inclusion in the Modern Workplace (Full Course): Washington, District of Columbia 2022/02-2022/02
  • FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (Full Course): Washington, District of Columbia 2022/02-2022/02
  • Preventing Harassment & Discrimination: Non-Supervisors (Full Course): Washington, District of Columbia 2022/02-2022/02
  • Gallaudet Cybersecurity Training 2022: Washington, District of Columbia 2022/01-2022/01
  • Gallaudet Cybersecurity Training 2021: Washington, District of Columbia 2021/01-2021/01
  • Association for Computing Machinery: October 2010-PRESENT
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