Kelly is a Phd Student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. She is advised by Prof. Jennifer Mankoff. She completed her bachelors in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019, where she was advised by Prof. Aditya Parameswaran and Prof. Karrie Karahalios. She is an NSF Fellow and an ARCS Scholar.
Her research focuses on applying computer science and fabrication techniques to create or improve technologies that serve people with disabilities. Her recent projects focus on deaf and hard of hearing people and people with visual impairments, such as investigating the accessibility issues Deaf signers face on social media and improving tactile map creation for people who have visual impairments.
Visit Kelly’s homepage at https://kmack3.github.io
