Cecilia Baranauskas is Full Professor at the State University of
Campinas (UNICAMP), in Brazil,
currently affiliated as Collaborator in the Institute of Computing,
where she developed her
academic career, and at the Computer Science Graduate Program of the
Federal University of
Paraná (PPGInf UFPR). Co-founder and former Director of the Nucleus
of Informatics Applied to
Education (NIED), at UNICAMP, she is an honorary member of the
Brazilian Academy of
Educational Technology (abte.org.br) and
Member of
the Governing Board of UNESCO
Institute
for Information Technology in Education (IITE).
Her formal education and academic collaboration include Bachelor's
Degree in Mathematics,
Bachelor's and Master's in Computer Science and Doctorate in
Electrical Engineering at
UNICAMP, Brazil (1993). She was entitled Honorary Research Fellow at
Staffordshire University
(2001) and Visiting Fellow at University of Reading, UK, working at
the Applied Informatics with
Semiotics Laboratory (2002). She also received an Ibero-American
Chair Unicamp-Santander to
study accessibility issues in software engineering at the
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid,
Spain
(2006).
Senior Lecturer of The Brazilian Computing Society (SBC), appointed
by the SBC Special
Committee in Human-Computer Interaction, she is one of the authors
of the very first HCI book
written in Brazilian Portuguese. She has also served the Technical
Committee on Human-
Computer Interaction (TC13) Board of IFIP (International Federation
for Information Processing)
as the Brazilian Representative (2002 – 2007). Her research
interests have focused on proposing
a socially aware computing perspective for the analysis, design and
evaluation of
technologybased
environments, leading several research projects in the theme. She
was also one of the
proponents and promoter of one of the Grand Challenges in Computer
Science Research in Brazil
(2006-2016) – The Participative and Universal Access to Knowledge
for the Brazilian Citizen,
which had a remarkable impact in the academic communities of
Computers in Education and
Human- Computer Interaction, among other areas.
As a result of her contributions throughout her career, Cecilia has
received different national
and
international awards, such as the Diploma of Educational Merit
"Prof. Darcy Ribeiro" in 2006,
the
ACM SIGDOC Rigo Award in 2010, the 1st HCI Outstanding Career Award
in 2015, the Academic
Recognition "Zeferino Vaz" in 2016, and the ACM SIGCHI Social Impact
Award 2021. She holds a
Research Productivity Scholarship from The Nacional Council for
Research (CNPq).
Curriculum Vitae at http://lattes.cnpq.br/1750385790843118