Tawanna R. Dillahunt
Personal Information
Born: Unknown
Country of Birth: USA
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: Black
Education
N. Carolina State University BS Computer Engineering 2000; Oregon Graduate Institute at Oregon Health & Science University MS Computer Science 2005; Carnegie Mellon University MS 2010 & PhD 2012 Human-Computer Interaction
Professional Life
Field of Study: Computer Engineering, Human-computer interactions
Institution/Corporation: Intel Corp; University of Michigan
Degrees & Memberships: Member: ACM Distinguished member, Kavli Fellow with National Academy of Science
Awards & Achievements
Awards: 2020, inaugural recipient Skip Ellis Early Career Award
Achievements: she & her team have designed & developed digital employment tools that address the needs of job seekers with limited digital literacy & education; assessed real-time ridesharing & online grocery delivery applications among lower-income & trasportation scarce groups & proposed models for novice entrepreneurs to build their technical capacity
Her research has been cited more that 2,700 times according to Google Scholar
She has received multiple grants from NSF to study, design, & evaluate technologies related to unemployment, environmental sustainability, & technical literacy
Has a grant to study transportation barriers in underserved urban & rural communities in Michigan
Holds 4 patents