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Sarah Kriz

Assistant Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering (formerly Technical Communication)

Sarah Kriz joined the Human Centered Design & Engineering faculty from the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence where she was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate. Kriz’s research focus is on cognition and communication; her current work is in human-robot interaction, but her interests also include visual and spatial communication, the role of gesture in communication and the effects of animation on learning.

She received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

New Faculty 2008 by Department


Computer Science & Engineering
Michael D. Ernst
Shwetak N. Patel (also EE)
Georg Seelig (also EE)
Emanuel Todorov

Electrical Engineering
Maryam Fazel
Shwetak N. Patel (also CSE)
Jacques “Chris” Rudell
Georg Seelig (also CSE)

Human Centered Design & Engineering (formerly Technical Communication)
Sarah Kriz
Charlotte P. Lee
Julie Kientz

Materials Science & Engineering
Marco Rolandi

Mechanical Engineering
Amy Shen
Junlan Wang