Professor/Program Director - Information Technology Program
Science, Technology & Mathematics /
Information Technology
Hall Memorial Building N311
By Appointment - Email or Call
I am the Director of the Information Technology program in the Department of Science, Technology and Mathematics at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. Our IT program has grown rapidly in the past few years, and we are exploring new concentrations and minors for the program, including cybersecurity and data science. My responsibilities include strategic planning, local industry & alumni relations, and faculty mentoring. As a researcher, I have over 10 years of accumulated experience working in accessible computing design. I primarily teach human-centered computing with a focus on accessible computing, and application development courses. I also teach cybersecurity related courses at both the introductory and specialized levels.
My research interests encompass the fields of accessible computing and accessibility/intellectual property law, with the goal of improving information access for deaf and hard of hearing individuals. In the accessible computing field, I investigate information access disparities between hearing and deaf. For example, I investigate how deaf individuals acquire information through speech-to-text, e.g., enhanced captions that provide visual cues to non-speech information.
In the accessibility/intellectual property law field, I advocate for updates in accessible and intellectual property law, to incorporate accessible computing advances such as automatic captioning/subtitling.
I have published several peer-reviewed publications and received grants in the fields of accessible computing, accessible law and intellectual property law.
I am a Professor and Director of the Information Technology program in the Department of Science, Technology and Mathematics at Gallaudet University.
Term |
Course |
Course Name |
2021 Spring |
ITS 311.01 |
Intro to Mobile Applications Development |
2021 Spring |
ITS 492.01 |
Senior Capstone Project II |
2020 Fall |
STM 403.02 |
Senior Capstone |
2020 Spring |
ITS 492.01 |
Senior Capstone Project II |
2020 Spring |
PSY 395.01 |
Human Computer Interaction |
2020 Spring |
ITS 371.01 |
Human Computer Interaction |
2019 Fall |
ITS 361.01 |
Information Security Fundamentals |
2019 Fall |
ITS 311.01 |
Intro to Mobile Applications Development |
2019 Summer |
ITS 499.01 |
Cybersecurity Internship in IT |
2019 Spring |
ITS 371.01 |
Human Computer Interaction |
2019 Spring |
ITS 492.01 |
Senior Capstone Project II |
2018 Fall |
ITS 311.01 |
Intro to Mobile Applications Development |
2018 Fall |
BIO 403.01 |
Senior Capstone I |
2018 Fall |
ITS 491.01 |
Senior Capstone Project I |
2018 Fall |
MAT 403.01 |
Senior Capstone in Mathematics |
2018 Spring |
ITS 492.01 |
Senior Capstone Project II |
2018 Spring |
ITS 371.01 |
Human-Computer Interaction |
2017 Fall |
ITS 395.01 |
Computational Thinking |
2017 Fall |
GSR 230.06 |
Computational Thinking |
2017 Fall |
ITS 311.01 |
Intro to Mobile Applications Development |
2017 Summer |
ITS 499.01 |
Virtual Reality Development |
2017 Summer |
ITS 499.02 |
Accessible Multimodal Interfaces Research |
2017 Spring |
ITS 495.02 |
Accessible Computing R & D |
2017 Spring |
ITS 495.01 |
iOS Application Development |
2017 Spring |
PSY 395.01 |
Human Computer Interaction |
2017 Spring |
ITS 371.01 |
Human Computer Interaction |
2016 Fall |
ITS 311.01 |
Intro to Mobile Applications Development |
2016 Fall |
ITS 495.01 |
Corporate Information Security |
2016 Spring |
NACA 161 |
Programming Fundamentals II |
2015 Fall |
NACT 250 |
Computer and Data Security |
2015 Fall |
NACT 250 |
Computer and Data Security |
2015 Spring |
NACA 161 |
Programming Fundamentals II |
2014 Fall |
NACT 250 |
Computer and Data Security |
2014 Spring |
NACA 160 |
Programming Fundamentals I |
2013 Fall |
NACT 250 |
Computer and Data Security |
2012 Winter |
0805 353 |
Introduction to Computer Forensics |
2012 Spring |
0805 390 |
Programming Fundamentals |
2011 Winter |
0805 353 |
Introduction to Computer Forensics |
2011 Fall |
0805 390 |
Programming Fundamentals |
2011 Spring |
0805 390 |
Programming Fundamentals |
2010 Fall |
0805 390 |
Programming Fundamentals |
2010-2020 |
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|
Committee/Event |
Role |
Year |
ACM ASSETS ’20 – Athens, Greece |
SRC Competition Chair |
2019-20 |
ACM ASSETS ‘19 – Pittsburgh, PA |
Accessibility Co-Chair |
2018-19 |
ACM ASSETS ‘18 – Galway, Ireland |
Accessibility Co-Chair |
2017-18 |
ACM ASSETS ‘17 – Baltimore, MD |
Treasurer & Registration Chair |
2016-17 |
ACM ASSETS ‘16 – Reno, NV |
Accessibility Chair |
2015-16 |
ACM ASSETS ‘15 – Lisbon, Portugal |
Caption Challenge Chair |
2014-15 |
ACM ASSETS ‘15 – Lisbon, Portugal |
Accessibility Chair |
2014-15 |
ACM ASSETS ‘14 – Rochester, NY |
Captioning Challenge Chair |
2013-14 |
ACM ASSETS ‘14 – Rochester, NY |
Accessibility Chair |
2013-14 |
ACM Symposium on Sign Language Translation and Avatars ‘13 – Chicago, IL |
Member |
2013-14 |
ACM ASSETS ‘13 – Bellevue, WA |
Accessibility Chair |
2012-13 |
ACM ASSETS ‘12 – Boulder, CO |
Accessibility Chair |
2011-12 |
Committee/Event |
Role |
Year |
Global Alliance of Speech-to-Text Captioning |
Board of Directors - Member |
|
Computing Research Association Widening Participation (CRA-WP) |
Board of Directors - Member |
2019-22 |
Association of Computing Machinery Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) |
Steering Committee - Member |
2019-21 |
Teach Access |
Representative |
2019-20 |
Federal Communications Commission – Disability Advisory Committee (DAC) |
Alternate Member |
2018-20 |
New York School for the Deaf - Fanwood |
Board of Trustees - Member |
2017-21 |
Benetech DIAGRAM Advisory Committee |
Member |
2016-19 |
Federal Communications Commission – Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC) |
Member |
2011-14 |
Deaf Rochester Film Festival (DRFF) |
Technical Director |
2011 |
|
Grant |
Role |
Duration |
Amount |
PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2019-2020 |
$18,000 |
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|
NIDILRR–90DPCP0002 |
PI – Christian Vogler Co-I – Raja Kushalnagar |
2018-2023 |
$2,375,000 |
NSF–1763219 |
PI – Raja Kushalnagar PI – Leah Findlater |
2018-2022 |
$100,000 |
|
NSF–1757836 |
PI – Raja Kushalnagar Co-PI – Christian Vogler |
2018-2021 |
$402,212 |
|
MITRE–108727 |
PI – Christian Vogler Co-PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2017-2020 |
$323,821 |
|
NSF–1460894 |
PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2015-2018 |
$385,433 |
|
C-Print Attention RIT–31540 |
Co-PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2015-2017 |
$19,700 |
|
IP-CTS Assessment MITRE–102871 |
PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2015-2016 |
$14,468 |
|
Health Text Accessibility RIT–48320 |
PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2015-2016 |
$13,000 |
|
NSF–1218056 |
PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2014-2015 |
$129,554 |
|
PLIG Visual Cues RIT–15861 |
PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2013-2014 |
$5,000 |
|
Eye Gaze Control RIT–15861 |
PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2013-2014 |
$7,180 |
|
ASL Avatars RIT–15824 |
Co-PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2012-2013 |
$48,395 |
|
Visual Cues for DHH RIT–15812 |
PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2012-2013 |
$5,000 |
|
PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2012-2013 |
$20,000 |
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Microsoft – Phone Grant |
PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2011-2013 |
$4,000 |
|
|
NTID Innovation Grant RIT–48320 |
PI – Raja Kushalnagar |
2011-2013 |
$76,922 |
NSF–0915268 |
SP – Raja Kushalnagar |
2010-2012 |
$69,181 |
|
|
Total of Grants |
|
2010-2023 |
$4,016,866 |