Winslow Burleson is an Assistant Professor of Human Computer Interaction at School of Computing and Informatics at Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. He received his PhD from the MIT Media Lab, Affective Computing Group. He joined the ASU Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Arts, Media, and Engineering graduate program in 2006. At MIT he was involved with the Context-Aware Computing Group and the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School.

He was a Senior Research Scientist at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and Research Staff Member at IBM’s Almaden Research Center where he was awarded nine patents. Awarded a Master of Science degree at Stanford University’s Mechanical Engineering Product Design Program, he taught brainstorming, creativity, innovation, and visual thinking within that department. Prior work included curriculum development at the SETI Institute, Co-Principal Investigator on the Hubble Space Telescope’s Investigation of Binary Asteroids, and consultant to UNICEF and the World Scout Bureau on Healthy Lifestyles for Youth. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Bio-Physics from Rice University.