Lana Yarosh

[1] She is a Distinguished University Teaching Professor and recipient of the McKnight Presidential Fellowship.

[8] Yarosh earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Psychology in the University of Maryland, College Park in 2005, and she graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology as a Doctor of Philosophy, specializing in Human-Centered Computing in 2012.

[9] Yarosh worked at AT&T labs for two years before joining the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering as an assistant professor.

[12] Her work has led to numerous patents including a system and method for enabling mirror video chat using a wearable display device [13] and a system and method for providing separate communication zones in a large format videoconference.

[22] Yarosh collaborated with others to develop and deploy a YouTube CrashCourse series on Artificial Intelligence which launched on August 9, 2019.