Denae Ford Robinson is a Senior Researcher in the SAINT group at Microsoft Research. Her research identifies and dismantles both cognitive and social barriers to participation in online socio-technical ecosystems. The on platform interventions she designs and builds have been adopted by Stack Overflow and GitHub resulting in 50% increases in engagement on average. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science and a graduate minor in Cognitive Science. She also holds an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. Dr. Ford Robinson is also a recipient of the National GEM Consortium Fellowship, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship. She was a member of the first cohort of blackcomputeHER Fellows and a 2019 recipient of blackcomputeHER’s Rising Star Award. More information about her research and papers can be found at http://denaeford.me.
