Connect with Google: UX Research Roundtables

Roundtable Hosts

Alex Olwal

Dr. Alex Olwal (he/him) is a Tech Lead/Manager and a Staff Research Scientist in Google’s Augmented Reality team and a founder of the Interaction Lab. He directs research and development of interaction technologies based on advancements in display technology, low-power and high-speed sensing, wearables, actuation, electronic textiles, and human—computer interaction. He is passionate about accelerating innovation and disruption through tools, techniques and devices that enable augmentation and empowerment of human abilities. Research interests include augmented reality, ubiquitous computing, mobile devices, 3D user interfaces, interaction techniques, interfaces for accessibility and health, medical imaging, and software/hardware prototyping. 

Beka Gulotta

Dr. Beka Gulotta (they/them) is a senior researcher on Google’s Editors-UX team, which works on products like Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Sites. They have worked at Google for 5 years and are a lead for Google NYC's Pride at Google group. Beka has a passion for methods and advocating for user needs. Prior to coming to Google, Beka completed her PhD at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Outside of work, they love working with textiles and riding the subway around NYC.  

Daniel J. Liebling

Daniel J. "Dan" Liebling (he/him) is Staff Engineering Manager at Google Research in Seattle. He leads a team of scientists and engineers investing in device-mediated human language technologies such as speech recognition and machine translation. Prior to joining Google, Dan worked on HCI and information retrieval at Microsoft Research. He is the co-author of over 40 publications and 15 patents. Dan holds a M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington and a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he studied computational neuroscience.

Deana Anglin

Dr. Deana Anglin is a Senior-level User Experience Researcher at Google, a part-time adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and founder of the Black UX Network. She has over 10 years of experience as a design research strategist for global products and services. Deana is most often found in-field learning about people across Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North & South America. Her work informs product strategy from conception to launch, for products that connect small businesses with consumers including orderfood.google.com and ‘Reserve with Google’ service booking products. She advises Africa and Brazil-based startups through Google’s startup programs. A native of Jamaica, Deana received a PhD in Computing from Georgia Tech where she focused on designing technologies to solve socio-economic challenges around the globe like youth development and rural water quality monitoring.

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanab/

Erin Buehler

Erin Buehler (she/her) is a senior user experience researcher on Google’s central accessibility team, which focuses on the accessibility of Google’s ecosystem of products and developing novel assistive technologies. She has worked at Google for 10 months, is a member of Google’s Disability Alliance, Pride@Google, and Woman@Google employee resource groups, and has a passion for creative, co-design research methods. Prior to Google she worked in mobile product research and people analytics at Facebook and completed her doctorate at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in human-centered computing. Outside of work, she enjoys losing crucible matches in Destiny 2.

Janice Tsai

Janice Tsai, PhD (she/her) is a Privacy Engineer on Google’s Android team, which helps ensure that products on Android meet the bar for privacy. She has worked at Google for 6 months, and previously worked as a HCI Research Scientist at Mozilla, in privacy at Microsoft, and as a staffer in the NJ and California State Legislatures. She has a PhD in Usable Privacy from Carnegie Mellon. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, traveling, glass blowing, and quilting.

Meredith Ringel Morris

Meredith Ringel Morris is Director of People + AI Research at Google. Prior to joining Google Research, Dr. Morris was Research Area Manager for Interaction, Accessibility, and Mixed Reality at Microsoft Research, where she founded Microsoft’s Ability research group. She is also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington in the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and in The Information School. Dr. Morris is an ACM Fellow and a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy. Her research on collaboration and social technologies has contributed new systems, methods, and insights to diverse areas of computing including gesture interaction, information retrieval, and accessibility. Dr. Morris earned her Sc.B. in Computer Science from Brown University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Patrick Gage Kelley

Patrick Gage Kelley is a researcher at Google focusing on security, privacy, and anti-abuse topics. He has worked on projects on the use and design of standardized, user-friendly privacy displays, passwords, location-sharing, mobile apps, encryption, and technology ethics. Patrick’s work on redesigning privacy policies in the style of nutrition labels was included in the 2009 Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers event on Capitol Hill. Most recently, Apple and Google recently revived this work with their App Privacy Labels.

Previously, he was a professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico and faculty at the UNM ARTSLab and received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University working with the Mobile Commerce Lab and the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security (CUPS) Lab. He was an early researcher at Wombat Security Technologies, now a part of Proofpoint, and has also been at NYU, Intel Labs, and the National Security Agency.

Sunny Consolvo

Sunny Consolvo is a researcher at Google where her focus is on security, privacy, safety, and anti-abuse topics. She led Google's Security & Privacy UX team for several years. In recent work, she has investigated the security and privacy practices of people involved with political campaigns, survivors of intimate partner abuse, people facing financial insecurity, and explored the technology experiences of women in South Asia. Prior to Google, Sunny worked at Intel Labs Seattle where she investigated how to use mobile technologies to encourage wellness and to help people be more aware of the privacy implications of sensing and inference systems.

Sunny was elected to the SIGCHI Academy in 2020. She has received a test-of-time award, three 10-year impact awards, and many best paper awards. She has been featured in the press, including Wired and Scientific American Mind. Sunny received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. She is a member of the Editorial Board for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine, the Steering Committee for the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, and she became a Certified Information Privacy Professional (US) in 2013.