Dr Elizabeth F. Churchill is Professor and founding Department Chair of Human Computer Interaction at MBZUAI (the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She was formerly a Senior Director of User Experience at Google. She is an Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, a member of the ACM’s CHI Academy, and an ACM Distinguished Speaker. She has a background in psychology (neuro, experimental, cognitive and social), Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. She has built research teams at Google, eBay, Yahoo, PARC and FujiXerox.

She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, an honorary Doctor of Science (DSc.) from the University of Sussex, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Stockholm. In 2016 she received a Citris-Banatao Institute Athena Award for Women in Technology for her Executive Leadership. She received the SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award in 2023 and the SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award in 2024.

She held the position of Executive Vice President of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and prior to that was Secretary/Treasurer of the ACM. She was Executive Vice President of SIGHI, and Vice President for Chapters prior to that.

She currently serves as the Co-Editor in Chief of ACM’s interactions magazine, as well as serving as Assistant Editor on a number of journals. She has served on numerous advisory boards, and was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Media X, the industry affiliate program to Stanford’s H-STAR Institute.

You can find out more on her LinkedIn page.