Patrick C Shih

Director of Graduate Studies for Data Science

Assistant Professor of Informatics

Education

• Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science at University of California, Irvine, 2011
• M.S. in Information Networking at Carnegie Mellon University, 2005
• B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles, 2003

Courses Taught at Luddy

• CSCI-P 535 Pervasive Computing
• ILS-Z 516 Human-Computer Interaction
• ILS-Z 604 Social Computing and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
• INFO-I 400 & 590 Topics in Informatics: Usable Artificial Intelligence
• INFO-I 400 & 590 Topics in Informatics: Seminar in Animal-Computer Interaction
• INFO-I 413 & 513 Usable Artificial Intelligence
• INFO-I 527 Mobile and Pervasive Design
• UNIV 184 Bridge to Informatics (DePauw University)

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor of Informatics in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington. I direct the Societal Computing Lab (SoCo Lab). I'm the Director of Graduate Studies for Data Science, and I'm also the Co-Director of the Animal Informatics MS and PhD track and the BS Cognate, BS Minor, and PhD Minor in Animal-Computer Interaction. I'm a core faculty of the Health Informatics PhD track. I'm an ACM Senior Member.

My research focuses on how to better support health and wellbeing, specifically that of underserved and vulnerable populations, through the design, development, and evaluation of sociotechnical systems and community-based mechanisms. I also design technologies to amplify human and animal capabilities in animal-assisted interventions and to improve animal welfare.

Prior to joining IUB, I was a Research Associate and Lecturer in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State. I received my Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from UC Irvine, where I was a Chancellor's Fellow, M.S. in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University, and B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA. I have also worked at Microsoft Research and IBM Research.

Research Areas

• Animal Computer Interaction
• Computational Social Science
• Data Science
• Human Computer Interaction and Design
• Intelligent Interactive Systems
• Music Informatics
• Proactive Health Informatics
• Sustainability and Technology
• Computing, Culture, and Society

Centers

• Center for Computer-Mediated Communication (CCMC)
• Center for Rural Engagement (CRE)
• Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (CISAB)
• Center of Excellence for Women in Technology (CEWiT)
• Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab (CTIL)
• Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI)
• Institute for Digital Humanities (IDAH)
• Institute for Software Research (ISR, UC Irvine)
• Societal Computing Lab (SoCo Lab)