Nicola Dell

{{Short description|Zimbabwe-born computer scientist}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Nicola Dell

| image = NDell (cropped).jpg

| caption = Dell pictured in 2024

| birth_date = 1981 or 1982

| birth_place = Zimbabwe

| education = University of East Anglia (BSc)
University of Washington (MS, PhD)

| awards = MacArthur Fellowship

| fields = Computer science

| workplaces = Cornell Tech

| thesis_title = Mobile Camera-Based Systems for Low-Resource Environments

| thesis_url = https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/items/6eca632a-a6a3-47d4-bd83-79c4251b0e20

}}

Nicola Dell (born 1981 or 1982) is a Zimbabwe-born computer scientist. She is an associate professor at Cornell Tech and in the information sciences department at Cornell University.{{cite web |title=Nicola Dell |url=https://tech.cornell.edu/people/nicola-dell/ |website=Cornell Tech |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=23 October 2024 |language=en}} Dell researches human–computer interaction with reference to survivors of intimate partner violence.{{cite web |title=Nicola Dell |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2024/nicola-dell |website=www.macfound.org |publisher=MacArthur Foundation |access-date=23 October 2024 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Blair |first1=Elizabeth |title=Here's who made the 2024 MacArthur Fellows list |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/10/01/nx-s1-5131324/2024-macarthur-fellows |access-date=23 October 2024 |publisher=NPR |date=October 1, 2024}} In 2024, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.

Biography

Dell was born in Zimbabwe. In 2004, she graduated from the University of East Anglia with a B.Sc. in computer science. She later studied computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, receiving an MS in 2011 and a PhD in 2015. She joined the faculty of Cornell Tech in 2016.

Selected publications

  • Freed, D., Palmer, J., Minchala, D., Levy, K., Ristenpart, T., & Dell, N. (2018). “A Stalker’s Paradise”: How Intimate Partner Abusers Exploit Technology. Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174241
  • Sterling, M. R., Tseng, E., Poon, A., Cho, J., Avgar, A. C., Kern, L. M., Ankuda, C. K., & Dell, N. (2020). Experiences of Home Health Care Workers in New York City During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis. JAMA Internal Medicine, 180(11), 1453. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.3930

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