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accessible security. She works closely with national and local communities to im-
prove the quality of life for people with disabilities through information technol-
ogy. Her current research projects focus on assistive technologies for people with
cognitive disabilities in educational and professional settings, mobile applications
for health related activities, and accessible security techniques for individuals with
visual or cognitive disabilities. Her research has been funded by various national
and state agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National
Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR),
and TEDCO. Her work has been published in various top-notch journals and pre-
sented at conferences such as Human-Computer Interaction, ACM Transactions on
Computer-Human Interaction, and ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing.
She has received the Maryland Daily Record's “Innovator of The Year Award” twice,
in 2009 and 2016. Dr. Feng was appointed as the director for the School of Emerging
Technologies in Fall 2015 and is leading the effort to promote interdisciplinary col-
laboration across the Towson University campus. She currently serves on the edito-
rial board of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing. She also served as the
general conference chair for the 18th ACM SIGACCESS International Conference
on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2016).

Harry Hochheiser is currently a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical
Informatics and the Intelligent Systems Program at the University of Pittsburgh,
where he is actively involved in the Biomedical Informatics Training Program.
Previously, Hochheiser served as an assistant professor at Towson University, and
worked at Massachusetts General Hospital, Tufts University School of Medicine,
AT & T Bell Labs, IBM T.J. Watson Labs, and the National Institutes on Aging.
Working at the intersection of human-computer interaction and healthcare infor-
matics, his research has covered a range of topics, including human-computer in-
teraction, information visualization, bioinformatics, clinical informatics, universal
usability, security, privacy, and public policy implications of computing systems.
His research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, National Library of
Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Baobab Health
Trust, among others. Hochheiser has taught and developed several courses at both
undergraduate and graduate levels, including introductory computer science, intro-
duction to algorithms, information visualization, advanced web development, and
human-computer interaction. He is a member of the US Public Policy Committee of
the Association of Computing Machinery, and of the American Medical Informatics
Association (AMIA) public policy committee. Hochheiser is co-recipient of the 2009
Maryland Daily Record's “Innovator of the Year Award” with Lazar and Feng, for the
development of improved web-based security features for blind users.