Eric Gilbert is an American computer scientist and the John Derby Evans Associate Professor in the University of Michigan School of Information,[1] with a courtesy appointment in CSE.
with highest distinction in Mathematics & Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001.
While in college, Gilbert worked as a software engineer on the influential social and learning computing system PLATO.
[3] After completing his undergraduate work, he served in Teach For America as a Math and Computer Science teacher at Paul Robeson High School in Chicago.
[7] Gilbert has made foundational contributions to the fields of social computing and HCI.