Who We Are: Dr. Tessa Lau

Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center

Tessa Lau is a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. She joined IBM in 2001 after completing a PhD in computer science at the University of Washington.  Dr. Lau’s research goal is to integrate techniques from artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction to build systems that enhance human productivity and creativity.  She is an expert in the area of programming by demonstration, whose goal is to enable regular end users to automate routine tasks simply by demonstrating how to
perform their desired task.  Dr. Lau currently leads the CoScripter project, which is building a platform for collaborative scripting of web-based tasks.  She has served on program committees and as a reviewer for major AI and HCI conferences and journals.  Dr. Lau was Program Co-Chair of IUI 2007, the international conference on intelligent user interfaces.  She also serves on the board of CRA-W, the CRA committee on the status of women in computing research.