Mahmoud Aboelkheir
Graduate Student
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Architectural Design/Interior Architecture, Research-driven design, Human-centered design
Focus areas
Sustainable fashion education, Youth development, Consumer behavior
Focus areas
Functional Textiles, Biomaterials, Nanofibers
Susan Ashdown
Professor Emerita
Department
Human Centered Design
Fatma Baytar
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Fiber Science and Apparel Design
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Digitalization in the apparel industry, 3D body scan data + apparel simulation, 3D digital technologies
Charles Beach Jr.
Digital Design and Fabrication Studio (D2FS) Manager
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Fashion design, Vernacular art and architecture, Curation
Kim Claes
Visiting Research Scholar
Department
Human Centered Design
Melissa Conroy
Associate Teaching Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Contact
mac622@cornell.edu
Focus areas
Surface design + textile design, Knit structure and design, Drawing
Jaden Jaynes Demarest
Technical Services Technician
Department
Human Centered Design
Gary Evans
Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor
Department
Human Centered Design, Psychology
Focus areas
Children's environments (e.g. schools, housing), Environment of childhood poverty, Development of environmental attitudes/behaviors in children
Jeremy Faulk
Graduate Student
Department
Human Centered Design
Margaret Frey
Vincent V.C. Woo Professor in Fiber Science Emerita
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Micro and nanofibers, Uses for high specific surface area materials, Environment/sustainability in fashion + textiles industries
Rhonda Gilmore
Senior Lecturer Emeritus
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Interior design, Experience + exhibit design, Historic preservation
Denise N. Green
Lau Family Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Fiber Science and Apparel Design
Department
Human Centered Design
Contact
dng22@cornell.edu
Focus areas
Anthropological studies of style and fashion, History and curatorial practice of dress and textiles, Native American textiles and regalia
Keith Evan Green
Jean and Douglas McLean Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Intersection of design + robotics + psychology, Robot “living rooms” interacting/adapting with inhabitants, Robots that improve community, learning and health
Gaeul Han
Postdoctoral fellow
Department
Human Centered Design
Juan Hinestroza
Rebecca Q Morgan '60 Professor of Fiber Science and Apparel Design Emeritus
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Intersection Science-Design, Nanomaterials in Textiles, Use of waste as raw-material
Focus areas
Practice + approaches to creating optimal work + learning, Research methodology for post-occupancy evaluation (POE), Sustainable and resilience building practices in US + Asia
Focus areas
Wayfinding + spatial cognition using VR + simulation, Predictive design tools evaluating human responses to design, Human-environment interaction: built and virtual environment
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
Associate Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Wearable technology and on-skin interfaces, Designing skins across scales, Social perceptions towards on-body technologies
Sang Leigh
Assistant Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Accessible interactive technologies, Human-computer interaction, Design innovation – bridging art, technology and UX
Renata Leitao
Assistant Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Design for Indigenous empowerment, Transformational design for societal + environmental change, Intercultural design knowledge
Ziyu Liu
Graduate Student
Department
Human Centered Design
Janet Loebach
Evalyn Edwards Milman Assistant Professor in Child Development
Department
Human Centered Design
Contact
j.loebach@cornell.edu
Focus areas
children's environments, participatory research & design, behavior mapping
Jared May
Technical Services Technician
Department
Human Centered Design
Contact
ched2fs@cornell.edu
Mardelle McCuskey Shepley
Emerita Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Design and health/wellness, Physical environment evaluation, Impact of access to nature
Anil Netravali
Jean & Douglas McLean Professor in Fiber Science & Apparel Design, Professor Emeritus
Department
Human Centered Design
S. Kay Obendorf
Professor Emerita
Department
Human Centered Design
Heeju Terry Park
Vincent V.C. Woo Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Activewear and protective clothing, Smart wearable interface, Ethics of design and fashion
Kimberly Phoenix
Teaching Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Improving patterning/fit with custom half-scale dress forms
Jaleesa Reed
Assistant Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Self-definition + consumption for marginalized groups, Feminist theory + Black geography, Racism + representation in relation to beauty + identity
Larissa Shepherd
Assistant Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Tailoring fibers (spinning) for practical applications, Optically responsive fabrics, Immersion electrospinning
Jung-hye Shin
Chair
Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Environmental design, Aging in place
Kumar Siddharth
Postdoctoral Associate
Department
Human Centered Design
Karen Steffy
Events Coordinator
Department
Human Centered Design
Christine Tanner
Program Manager, Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Environmental justice, Identity, Fiber + fashion
Sienna Torbitt
Assistant to the Chair
Department
Human Centered Design
Tamer Uyar
Associate Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Nanofibers and nanotextiles, Medical textiles and drug delivery, Water treatment, food packaging
Ruth Wang
Graduate Student
Department
Human Centered Design
Susan Watkins
Professor Emerita
Department
Human Centered Design
Nancy M. Wells
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
Professor
Department
Human Centered Design, Cornell Human Ecology
Focus areas
Environmental psychology, Effects of the built and natural environment on human health, Environmental design + policy impacts on consumption + reuse
Focus areas
Multisensory Design, Emotions and behavior, Smellscape
Zehra I. Yildiz
Postdoctoral Associate
Department
Human Centered Design
Jay (JungKyoon) Yoon
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Design + Environmental Analysis
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
Experience-driven design, Design for emotion, subjective well-being + behavior change, Product design + development
Focus areas
Human-computer interaction in virtual environments, Large-scale interface/interaction design, Interior design
Rana Sagha Zadeh
Associate Professor
Department
Human Centered Design
Focus areas
User-centered design in healthcare, Systems approach, Healthcare entrepreneurship