Wendy Mackay is a Research Director, Classe Exceptionnelle (DR0), equivalent to a tenured full professor. She directs the ex)situ research group in Human-Computer Interaction at Inria, Paris-Saclay, and the Université Paris-Saclay (formerly Université Paris-Sud). She teaches in the HCID and HCI international Masters degree programs at the university.

She served for over three years as Vice President of Research for the Computer Science Department at the University of Paris-Sud, after which she spent two years as a Visiting Professor at Stanford University in the Computer Science Department. She received her Ph.D. from MIT and has served as Chair of ACM/SIGCHI, co-editor–in-chief of the journal IJHCS, was general chair of our flagship conference CHI’13, and received the ACM/SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award for Service this year. She is also a recipient of a European Research Council Advanced Grant, a five-year personal multi-million euro grant. Her current research interests include co-adaptive instruments, tangible computing and multi-disciplinary, participatory design methods.