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This is my formal bio, for talk and other announcements:
Paul Dourish is Chancellor's Professor and the Steckler Endowed Chair in Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he serves as director of the Steckler Center for Responsible, Ethical, and Accessible Technology. He has appointments in Informatics and Anthropology, and is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses primarily on understanding information technology as a site of social and cultural production; his work combines topics in human-computer interaction, social informatics, and science and technology studies. He is the author of several books, most recently "The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information" (MIT Press, 2017). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the British Computer Society (BCS), and a member of the SIGCHI Academy. He has been awarded the AMIA Diana Forsythe Prize and has twice received the ACM CSCW conference's Lasting Impact Award.
Before coming to UCI, he was a Senior Member of Research Staff in the Computer Science Laboratory of Xerox PARC; he has also held research positions at Apple Computer and at Rank Xerox EuroPARC. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College, London, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh.
Here is a medium resolution headshot, a more recent high-resolution one courtesy of Jeff Bardzell, and somewhat fiercer high-resolution shot.
