Fillia Makedon

Fillia Makedon is the Jenkins-Garrett Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University in 1982. Previously, she was Professor at Dartmouth College (1991-2006), where she founded/directed the Dartmouth Experimental Visualization Laboratory (DEVLAB), and served as UTA's CSE department chair (2006-2014). She was also Program Director at the National Science Foundation (2005-2006) and founded the Computer LEArning Research Center (CLEAR) at UT Dallas.

Her research spans:

• Current: Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Pervasive Computing, Machine Learning, Computational Multimedia, Cognitive Computing
• Earlier: Design Automation, Graph Theory, VLSI Algorithms, Parallel Computing, Cybersecurity for medical systems

She directs the HERACLEIA Human-Centered Lab developing pervasive monitoring technologies and co-leads the iPerform Center.

Her 350+ publications focus on assistive technologies, robotics, and AI-driven health systems, with recent work emphasizing cognitive assessment, fatigue detection, and accessible human-robot interaction through multimodal sensing and machine learning.

Awards include:

• Dartmouth Senior Research Professor Award
• Three Fulbright Awards

She has supervised 27+ PhD students and currently advises 12 PhD candidates. Major grants include NSF awards in brain computing, cyberphysical systems, and NIH/DOJ funding for medical and rehabilitation technologies.

She chairs the PETRA conference, serves on editorial boards, and is affiliated with Dartmouth's ISTS security institute.