Andrew Sears
| Andrew Sears | |
|---|---|
| Born | Newton, Massachusetts |
| Residence | Pennsylvania, United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields |
Human-Computer Interaction Human-Centered Computing |
| Institutions |
DePaul University UMBC Rochester Institute of Technology The Pennsylvania State University |
| Alma mater |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Maryland, College Park |
| Doctoral advisor | Ben Shneiderman |
Andrew Sears is an American computer scientist. He is Professor and Dean of the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at The Pennsylvania State University.
His research explores issues related to human-computer interaction including mobile computing, speech recognition, information technology accessibility, and situationally-induced impairments and disabilities. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science in College Park. His expert opinion on information technology and IT workforce issues have been reported by a variety of media sources.
Sears was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and attended Natick High School located in Natick, Massachusetts. He pursued undergraduate studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, graduating in 1988 with a BS in Computer Science. Subsequently, Sears pursued graduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, earning a PhD in Computer Science (1993). His dissertation, titled “Layout Appropriateness: Guiding user interface design with simple task descriptions” was chaired by Ben Shneiderman, with whom he worked in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab.
Upon receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, Sears joined the faculty of the School of Computer Science, Information Systems, and Telecommunications at DePaul University in Chicago. He left DePaul to accept a position with the Information Systems Department at UMBC in 1999. He served as the Chair of the Information Systems Department at UMBC from 2002 until 2011. In 2011, he left UMBC to join RIT as Dean of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. In 2015, he left RIT and joined The Pennsylvania State University as Dean of the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST). He served as Interim Chief Information Security Officer for the University from September 2015 until December 2016.
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