Noura Howell
Associate Professor
Denmark
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Top SchoolNoura Howell is an HCI researcher and trained software developer with 13 years of experience designing, building, and evaluating interactive systems that probe the sociocultural and ethical impacts of technology. Currently an Associate Professor in Denmark after a tenure-track faculty role at Georgia Tech, she focuses on making AI, biometric, and information systems more ethical, inclusive, and supportive of richer sense-making. Her work bridges hands-on prototyping and rigorous user studies, yielding practical tactics for technology developers rather than only theoretical critique. Before academia she shipped production software at Intel Labs and The Echo Nest, giving her fluency across front-end, back-end, and embedded web stacks. She has a PhD in Information Management & Systems from UC Berkeley and a background in computing-focused engineering, knot theory research, and field-deployed design projects, reflecting an unusual mix of mathematical rigor, systems engineering, and grounded user-centered design. An understated strength is her ability to turn interactive prototypes into research probes that influence both engineering practice and ethical policy discussions.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
current PhD student, Information Management & Systems, current PhD student, Information Management & Systems at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science, Engineering with a Concentration in Computing, Bachelor of Science, Engineering with a Concentration in Computing at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
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Github Skills (13)
audio9
javascript7
google-sheets6
oop6
frequency6
graphite6
embed6
backbonejs6
querystring6
inheritance6
sensor3
pytorch1
machine-learning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
IntelOpenDesign/MakerNode
Feb 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:741 commits in 6 months
Noura/Noura.github.io
Feb 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:387 pushes, 4 branches in 10 years 2 months
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