Scott is a Professor of
Cognitive Science and
Computer Science & Engineering at UC San Diego, where he is a co-founder and Associate Director of the Design Lab. Before joining UCSD, he was an Associate Professor of
Computer Science at Stanford University, where he co-directed the
Human-Computer Interaction Group and held the Bredt Faculty Scholar development chair. Organizations around the world use his lab's open-source design tools and curricula; several
books and popular press articles have covered his research and teaching. He helped introduce
peer assessment to open online education, and taught the first
peer-assessed online course. He has been awarded the
Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize,
Sloan Fellowship,
NSF CAREER award, and
Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles; eight were awarded best paper or honorable mention at the premier HCI conferences (
CHI/
UIST/
CSCW). His former graduate students are leading
profe
ssors,
resear
chers,
fo
un
de
rs,
social entrepreneurs, and
engineers. He has a dual BA in
Art-Semiotics and
Computer Science from Brown University,
Graphic Design work at RISD, and an MS and PhD in
Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He serves on the editorial board of
TOCHI and
HCI, co-chaired the
UIST 2011 program, co-chaired the
CHI 2010 systems area, and has served on advisory boards for
academic
programs,
research labs, and
startups passionate about interaction design.