Tawanna Dillahunt
Tawanna Dillahunt is an American computer scientist and information scientist based at the University of Michigan School of Information. She runs the Social Innovations Group, a research group that designs, builds, and enhances technologies to solve real-world problems. Her research has been cited over 2,700 times according to Google Scholar. Education. Tawanna Dillahunt was born in North Carolina and received her B.S. in Computer Engineering Magna at North Carolina State University in 2000. She received her MS from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology in 2005. She received an MS from Carnegie Mellon University in  2011 and her PhD from there in 2012. She joined the School of Information faculty at the University of Michigan in 2013. Career and research. Dillahunt has worked in the areas of human-computer interaction, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, and computer supported collaborative work and social computing. She has received the Inaugural Skip Ellis Early Career Award from the Computing Research Association. She is the recipient of he Fran Allen IBM PhD Fellowship, the Richard Tapia Scholarship, and the IBM PhD Fellowship. She is a Kavli Fellow with the National Academy of Sciences. She is best known for her work  designing and evaluating technologies related to unemployment, environmental sustainability, and technical literacy. She has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation to support her work. Most recently, she received a grant to study transportation barriers in underserved urban and rural communities in Michigan. She has created numerous technology tools that lead to strategies to better recruit marginalize populations to career opportunities. Additionally, she is a faculty affiliate of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.