Gillian R. Hayes, Ph.D.

Gillian R. Hayes, Ph.D.

Gillian R. Hayes, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the U niversity of California, Irvine, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences where she designs, develops, and deploys unobtrusive data collection and management technologies that empower people to use collected data to address real human needs in sensitive and ethically responsible ways. She directs the Social and Technological Action Research group and is affiliated with the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction, the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing, the Center for Autism Research and Treatment, the Center for Ethnography, the Center for Biomedical Informatics, the Center for Research on Information Technology & Organizations, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and the Institute for Genetics and Bioinformatics. She is a fellow in the University of California Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California and serves as Director of Technology Research at the Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders of Southern California and Chief Technology Officer for Tiwahe Technology.