Cynthia L. Bennett

Cynthia Bennett is a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Her research concerns the intersection of disability, design, and accessibility. She positions the lived experiences and creativity of people with disabilities as starting points for developing accessible and justice-oriented applications of technology. She is regularly invited to speak on disability, access, technology, and power; recent hosts include the TWIML AI Podcast and the conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. She has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, and the University of Washington’s Human Centered Design and Engineering department where she completed her Ph.D. She has published in top-tier computer science venues, and three of these papers have received awards. Bennett is also a disabled scholar who is committed to raising participation of disabled people in academia and the tech industry.