Gary Hsieh is a joint-appointed Assistant Professor in the Departments of Communication and Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media. He is also affiliated with the Health and Risk Communication Center in the College of Arts and Sciences. His focus is on studying, designing and developing technologies to enable people to interact in ways that are efficient and welfare-improving. He has conducted research at a number of industry research labs, including Microsoft, IBM, Intel and Fuji-Xerox. He received his Ph.D. from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Research Interests computer-mediated communication, human-computer interaction, incentives and motivation, health communication