Professor 
Division of Computer Science and Engineering
   and 
School of Information  

ackerm at umich dot edu

Overview - See the SocialWorlds research group's webpages for a description of my research streams, as well as our projects and publications.

Note:  I am not taking on any PhD, postdocs, or MS/MSI students for AY 25-26 (next year).  I am also not hiring in AY 24-25.

• Prospective undergraduate or MS student? Interested in working with us?
• Current contact info
• My vita (updated 9/23)

Short bio - Mark Ackerman is is the George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and a Professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His major research area is Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), primarily Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). He has published widely in HCI and CSCW, investigating expertise sharing (including misinformation), collaborative information access, online knowledge communities, medical settings, and most recently, pervasive environments. Mark is a member of the CHI Academy (HCI Fellow) and an ACM Fellow.

Previously, Mark was a faculty member at the University of California, Irvine, and a research scientist at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (now CSAIL). Before becoming an academic, Mark led the development of the first home banking system, had three Billboard Top-10 games for the Atari 2600, and worked on the X Window System's first user-interface widget set. Mark has degrees from the University of Chicago, Ohio State, and MIT.