Wendy Ju is a professor of information science and design tech at Cornell Tech, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Ju comes to Cornell Tech from the Center for Design Research at Stanford University, where she was executive director of interaction design research, and from the California College of the Arts, where she was an associate professor of interaction design. Ju’s work in the areas of human-robot interaction and automated vehicle interfaces highlights the ways that interactive devices can communicate and engage people without interrupting or intruding upon them. Ju has developed numerous methods for early-stage prototyping of automated systems to understand how people will respond to systems before they are built. Ju has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and a master’s degree in media arts and sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her book, “The Design of Implicit Interactions,” was published in 2015. She was inducted into the [ACM SIGCHI](https://sigchi.org/) Academy in 2025.