Scott E. Hudson is a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

He regularly serves on the ACM SIGCHI and UIST conference program committees.

He is also a founding associate editor for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.

Hudson was the first and founding director of the PhD program in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University.

[3] Along with Robert Xiao and Chris Harrison, colleagues at CMU, he developed Lumitrack, a motion tracking technology which is currently used in video game controllers and in the film industry.