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Dr. Juan E. Gilbert is the T-SYS Distinguished Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department at Auburn University. He directs the Human-Centered Computing (HCC) Lab, http://www.HumanCenteredComputing.org/. Dr. Gilbert has research projects in Spoken Language Systems, Advanced Learning Technologies, User Interfaces (Usability), Ethnocomputing (Culturally Relevant Computing) and Databases. He has published more than 50 articles, given more than 90 talks and obtained more than $3 million dollars in research funding in his seven years at Auburn University. Dr. Gilbert is a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society, he serves on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors and he is the column Editor for the Broadening Participation in Computing Series in IEEE Computer. Dr. Gilbert was named one of the nation's top African-American Scholars by Diverse Issues in Higher Education and he was the recipient of the Black Engineer of the Year Special Recognition Award. In that same year, Dr. Gilbert received the American Society for Engineering Education Minorities in Engineering Award. Recently, Dr. Gilbert was named a national role model by Minority Access Inc. At Auburn University, Dr. Gilbert has been honored with the Auburn University Alumni Engineering Council Junior Faculty Research Award, the Auburn University ACM Outstanding Faculty Member, Auburn University Alumni Outstanding Minority Achievement Award and the Auburn University Outstanding Minority Service Award. In 2006, Dr. Gilbert was honored with a mural painting in New York City by City Year New York, a non-profit organization that unites a diverse group of 17 to 24 year-old young people for a year of full-time, rigorous community service, leadership development, and civic engagement. Dr. Gilbert has a B.S. in Systems Analysis from Miami University where he pledged Kappa Alpha Psi, Inc. Spring 1990 Kappa Delta Chapter, a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati.

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