Meredith Ringel Morris

Meredith Ringel Morris is a Principal Scientist in Google Brain, conducting foundational research on human-computer interaction and human-centered AI. Previously, she was Director of People + AI Research at Google. She is also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington in The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and in The Information School. Prior to joining Google Research, Dr. Morris was Research Area Manager for Interaction, Accessibility, and Mixed Reality at Microsoft Research, where she founded Microsoft’s Ability research group. Dr. Morris is an ACM Fellow and a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy. Her research on collaboration and social technologies has contributed new systems, methods, and insights to diverse areas of computing including gesture interaction, information retrieval, and accessibility. Dr. Morris earned her Sc.B. in Computer Science from Brown University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.