The Human Computation Institute is the first international center that brings together the vision and competencies needed to realize my father's dream of augmenting human collaboration for the benefit of humanity. I am pleased to advise on the center's ongoing activities on behalf of the Doug Engelbart institute.
Christina Engelbart

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Collective solutions to societal problems

The Human Computation Institute is a nonprofit innovation center dedicated to the betterment of society through novel methods leveraging the complementary strengths of networked humans and machines.

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We strive to engineer sustainable participatory systems that have a profound impact on health, humanitarian, and educational outcomes.

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Core team

Rajneesh Dussaruth

Lead Software Developer

Lead Software Developer, Human Computation Institute

Pietro Michelucci, Director, HCI

Pietro Michelucci

Executive Director

Eglė Marija Ramanauskaitė

Citizen Science Coordinator

Elizabeth Tyson

Strategic Advisor

Libuše Hannah Vepřek

Ethics Intern
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Board of Directors

Darlene Cavalier

External Professor

Founding Director, SciStarter
Professor of Practice, Arizona State University

Janis Dickinson

External Professor

Professor, Natural Resources, Cornell University
Arthur A. Allen Director of Citizen Science, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Pietro Michelucci, Director, HCI

Pietro Michelucci

Executive Director

External Faculty

Oliver Bracko

External Professor

Alzheimer’s researcher, Cornell University

Andrea Wiggins

External Professor

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies

Margaret Wallace

External Professor

Chief Executive Officer
Playmatics
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Jerome Jérôme Waldsipühl

External Professor

Associate Professor, School of Computer Science,
McGill University, Canada

Attila Szantner

External Professor

CEO, Massively Multiplayer Online Science

Pablo Suarez

External Professor

Associate director for Research and Innovation, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
Fellow, Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
Honorary Senior Lecturer, University College London

Melanie Stegman

External Professor

Owner, Biochemist, Game Designer
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Paul Smaldino

External Professor

Postdoctoral Scholar, Departments of Anthropology, Political Science, and Computer Science
University of California, Davis

Chris B. Schaffer

External Professor

Associate Professor, Cornell University, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Eglė M. Ramanauskaitė

External Professor

Citizen Science Coordinator, Human Computation Institute

Matjaž Perc

External Professor

Professor of Physics, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Darlene Cavalier

External Professor

Founding Director, SciStarter
Professor of Practice, Arizona State University

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