Melissa Bica
Senior User Experience Researcher at Workday
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMelissa Bica is a Senior User Experience Researcher with 12 years of experience blending HCI scholarship and industry practice to uncover how people interpret risk and uncertainty in digital systems. A Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, she combines rigorous quantitative analysis of social media trace data with qualitative methods like interviews and in-lab studies to study diffusion of forecast visuals during hurricanes. At Workday and previously at Yahoo and Verizon Media, she translates mixed-method insights into product-facing recommendations that improve usability and information clarity. Her background includes international and community-focused projects—from training rural women in IT in India to building a mobile app for people experiencing homelessness—informing a human-centered approach to design for vulnerable populations. She has a strong track record of interdisciplinary research in HCC, CSCW, and crisis informatics and brings an unusual depth in analyzing large-scale social traces (especially Twitter) alongside traditional UX techniques. Based in Boulder, Colorado, she enjoys mentoring and outreach to encourage more girls into STEM.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Cum Laude at Santa Clara UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderHigh School, High School at Poway High School
Github Skills (3)
sunlight4
api3
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
melissabica/melissabica.github.io
Oct 2015 - Oct 2022
Contributions:97 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
zalzala/TextToLearn
Jan 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:211 commits in 4 months
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