Summer 2026

After ten¹ years at Google, ten! (10!), I’m leaving, really and seriously this time. Not just my perpetual… I’m leaving soon, I’m leaving soon I promise.

So for the first time in a decade, I have the summer off.

• I’m just working on a bunch of research projects, including two with the interns we have at Google this summer, and working towards submitting four five(!) CHI papers. (Yes, having the summer off means I’m working—but on the things I want to work on.)²
• I’m co-chairing my fourth and final SOUPS event, in Hannover, Germany and SOUPS is in great hands with Sascha Fahl taking over as General Chair for 2027.

• I’m spending a bunch of time in NYC, working on some apartment improvements, seeing friends who were visiting.
• USENIX Security is down in Baltimore, and I attended a (and spoke on a lil career panel) pre-USENIX workshop that friends at Johns Hopkins ran for Security + AI / usability researchers.
• I’ve been building myself an actual website also for the first time in a decade³, and here it is! You’re on it! Please let me know what you think.
• I’m traveling to Istanbul⁴ for the first time, more photos forthcoming…

#Footnotes

1. Some might say it is not ten years, as I started in December 2016 and left before December 2026, but if you squint… ↩

2. LOVE working on research while having far far far fewer meetings! People can’t just put things on my calendar! ↩

3. Modern functions! Allllll my papers! More to come!! ↩

4. I’ve been saying this is my post-SOUPS convalescing trip, and it’s glorious. ↩