Wendy Ju is an Associate Professor at the Jacobs Cornell-Technion Institute at Cornell Tech in New York City. Professor Ju is a leading expert on designing interaction with automation in the space of autonomous vehicle interactions and human robot interactions.

Wendy Ju explores how people respond to interactive and automated technologies using design research. Her particular expertise is in studying interactions to create physical and digital interfaces that implicitly communicate with users; this knowledge has wide reaching application in the creation of robots, automated vehicles and consumer technology devices. She also aims to lower the barriers to designing interactive systems so that these systems better represent the interests of a wider demographic of people.

Professor Ju has innovated numerous methods for early-stage prototyping of automated systems to understand how people will respond to systems before the systems are built. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Her monograph on The Design of Implicit Interactions was published in 2015.