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Stefanie Mueller

Associate Professor
MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, joint with Mechanical Engineering
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Head of the HCI Engineering Group
Email: stefanie.mueller@mit.edu

[Curriculum Vitae] 

Publications

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Teaching

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Current Team

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Alumni

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News

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06/28/21 4 papers accepted to ACM UIST 2021.
03/20/21 I'm promoted to Associate Professor starting July 1
12/12/20 3 papers accepted to ACM CHI 2021.
06/18/20 I'm serving as the Program Chair at the UIST 2020 PC meeting.
05/20/20 My undergraduate Carlos Castillo Lozada won the MIT EECS Licklider Best Undergraduate Researcher Award.
04/17/20 I received a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship.
02/11/20 I received a Sloan Research Fellowship.
12/10/19 Five papers accepted at ACM CHI 2020.
02/08/19 ACM UIST 2019 Best Paper Award for Photo-Chromeleon.
02/08/19 I received an NSF CAREER Award.
07/20/19 My PhD student Doga Dogan was named a Siebel Scholar 2019.
05/20/19 My student Kenneth Friedman won the MIT EECS Charles and Jennifer Johnson Best Master Thesis Award.
05/20/19 My student Aradhana Adhikari won the MIT EECS Morais & Rosenblum Best Undergraduate Research Award.
05/20/19 My student Yunyi Zhu won the MIT EECS Best SuperUROP Research Award.
03/20/19 SIGGRAPH 2019 Program Committee.
06/24/18 I won an ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention.
06/23/18 MoSculpt got accepted for UIST 2018.
05/15/18 I won the MIT EECS Outstanding Educator Award.
05/15/18 My undergraduate Xin Wen won the MIT EECS Licklider Best Undergraduate Researcher Award.
02/17/18 I won the ACM SIGCHI Best Dissertation Award
01/29/18 ColorMod is MIT's spotlight for the day
12/11/17 Two papers accepted for ACM CHI 2018
12/09/17 CHI 2018 Program Committee in Montreal
11/05/17 Faculty Panelist at Rising Stars in EECS
10/24/17 Chairing the Posters at UIST 2017
10/24/17 Chairing the Fabrication Session at UIST 2017
10/22/17 Faculty Panelist at UIST 2017 Doctoral Symposium
09/25/17 I won the GI Dissertation Award

Program Committees

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General Chair, Paper Chair, Sub-Committee Chair:
Program Chair ACM UIST 2020
Subcommittee Co-Chair ACM CHI 2020
Subcommittee Co-Chair ACM CHI 2019
General Co-Chair ACM SCF 2017

Program Committees:
Program Committee Member ACM SIGGRAPH 2019
Program Committee Member ACM CHI 2018
Program Committee Member ACM CHI 2017
Program Committee Member ACM UIST 2017
Program Committee Member ACM CHI 2016
Program Committee Member ACM UIST 2016
Program Committee Member ACM CHI 2015

Reviewing: ACM UIST 2012-2017, ACM CHI 2012-2017,
ACM SIGGRAPH 2013, 2015, GI 2016, DIS 2014, TEI 2013/2014, MobileHCI 2011

Organizing Committees

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ACM UIST 2019 Demo Co-Chair
ACM UIST 2018 Demo Co-Chair
ACM UIST 2017 Doctoral Symposium Panelist
ACM UIST 2017 Poster Co-Chair
ACM UIST 2016 Poster Co-Chair
ACM UIST 2015 Student Innovation Contest Co-Chair
ACM UIST 2014 Student Volunteer Co-Chair

Awards

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Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship 2020
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 2020
Best Paper Award, ACM UIST 2019
NSF CAREER Award 2019
MIT EECS Outstanding Educator 2018
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention 2018
ACM SIGCHI Best Dissertation Award 2018
GI Dissertation Award 2018
ACM Conference Founder 2017
Forbes 30 under 30 in Science, 2017
Best Paper Nominee, ACM CHI 2015
Best Paper Nominee, ACM CHI 2014
Best Paper Award, ACM CHI 2013

Chairing

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Invited Talks

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2019
07/23/19 Google Research Cambridge, host: Michael Terry

2018
06/11/17 Stanford David H. Liu Memorial Lecture Series
20/06/18 Hewlett Packard, host: Tico Ballagas

2017
30/05/17 Northwestern University, host: Jake Pollock
15/07/17 RSS 2017 Women in Robotics Workshop
22/04/17 Keynote Speaker LevelUp Pathways in STEM
11/02/17 Keynote Speaker RoboCon 2017

2016
13/07/16 Max Planck Institute, host: Juergen Steimle
15/06/16 FabCon 3.D, host: Florian Horsch
10/04/16 Technion (Israel Institute of Technology)
06/04/16 Cornell Tech, host: Shiri Azenkot
04/04/16 Cornell University, host: François Guimbretière
30/03/16 Columbia University, host: Steven K. Feiner
28/03/16 Princeton University, host: Szymon Rusinkiewicz
24/03/16 Carnegie Mellon University, host: Chris Atkeson
21/03/16 U Michigan Ann Arbor, host: Mark Ackerman
17/03/16 Brown University, host: Jeff Huang
15/03/16 UIUC, host Karrie Karahalios
10/03/16 University of Toronto, host: Daniel Wigdor
07/03/16 Harvard University, host: Krzysztof Gajos
02/03/16 UCSD, host: Scott Klemmer
29/02/16 University of British Columbia, host: Karon McLean
25/02/16 University of Washington, host: James Fogarty
22/02/16 MIT EECS, host: Srini Devadas
19/02/16 MIT MechE, host: David Wallace
11/02/16 Yale University, host: Holly Rushmeier
08/02/16 Stanford University, host: James Landay
04/02/16 UC Berkeley, host: Bjoern Hartmann
02/02/16 Max Planck Research Group Symposium
26/01/16 Adobe Research, CTL, host: Mira Dontcheva

2015
16/12/15 Royal College of Art (RCA), host: Kevin Walker
09/12/15 UCSD Design@Large, host: Scott Klemmer
07/12/15 FXPAL, host: Daniel Avrahami
19/11/15 MIT CSAIL, host: Wojciech Matusik
18/11/15 MIT Media Lab, host: Hiroshii Ishii
16/11/15 Cornell Tech, host: Shiri Azenkot,
13/11/15 Carnegie Mellon University, host: Scott Hudson
25/06/15 Newcastle University, host: Patrick Olivier
23/06/15 University of Bristol, host: Mike Fraser
15/06/15 IST Austria, host: Bernd Bickel
26/02/15 The Hebrew University, host: Amit Zoran
21/01/15 Adobe Research San Francisco, host: David Salesin

2014
11/12/14 Rakuten Institute, host: Adiyan Mujibiya
10/12/14 University of Tokyo, host: Jun Rekimoto
02/12/14 EPFL, host: Mark Pauly
27/11/14 Disney Research Zürich / ETH
30/08/14 University of Washington, dub lunch talk
17/06/14 MSR Redmond, Natural Interaction Research Group

2013
24/10/13 Designers' Open Conference on Rapid Prototyping
30/09/13 Media Interaction Lab, host: Michael Haller
13/05/13 MSR Cambridge, Sensors and Devices Group
23/04/13 Rapid Prototyping Panel, TSB Berlin

Press

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Selected Articles

• New Scientist, '3D-printed display lets blind people explore images by touch'
• New Scientist, '3D print extra bits for old objects to help extend their life'
• Gizmodo: 'An Upgraded Tape Gun Lets You Quickly Build Life-Size Wireframe Prototypes'
• The Guardian: 'Beam me up Scotty: German scientists invent working teleporter, of sorts'
• Wired: 'Cool 3-D Printing Software Just Makes the Skeletons of Your Stuff'
• The Atlantic: '3D Printing and Legos: Perfect Together'
• BBC: 'LaserOrigami: Highlights from the Computer Human Interaction conference'

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Outreach

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• Grace Hopper CRA-W Speaker 2019
• General Co-Chair Rising Stars in EECS - An Academic Career Workshop for Women 2018
• SheHacks Boston, Invited Project Judge 2018
• Erin M.A. Aylward Community Dinner, Graduate Women in EECS, GW6 2017
• MIT New Graduate Women in EECS Seminar Series, Faculty Participant 2017
• MIT Society of Women Engineers, Meet the Professors Dinner 2017
• MIT CONVERGE, Preview Weekend for Underrepresented Minorities, Faculty Contact 2017
• Rising Stars in EECS, Stanford, Panelist: Junior Women Faculty 2017
• MIT Equity and Community Dinner, Faculty Participant 2017
• ACM CHI Conference, Diversity Lunch Table Leader 2017
• LevelUp - Career Pathways in STEM, MIT Society of Women Engineers, Keynote Speaker 2017
• RSS – Women in Robotics Workshop, Invited Talk 2017
• The Tech, MIT Newspaper, Immigrant Members of the MIT community, Interview 2017
• ACM CHI Conference, Diversity Lunch Table Leader 2017