Faculty Fellow
Gloria Washington, PhD

Dr. Gloria Washington is an empathetic technologist that is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Howard University in Washington DC. She is also the Director of the Institiute HCAI@Howard and runs the Affective Biometrics Lab with students. She is a technology researcher that focuses on the intersection of human-centered computing, affective computing, and biometrics. She believes her research seeks to give voices to the underserved and marginalized by asking questions like: "how can technology impact positive human emotions while reducing systematic racism and barriers to equity and how can technology build lasting social impact through requiring persons to feel empathy...not just look away?".