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Raja Kushalnagar

Professor/Program Director - Information Technology Program
Science, Technology, Accessibility, Mathematics & Public Health / Information Technology

Raja Kushalnagar

Phone Numbers

202-750-2458 (VP)

Email

Personal Website

http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~rajah

Location

Hall Memorial Building N311

Office Hours

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

*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

Publications

Grants

*Grant*	*Role*	*Duration*	Amount
Google exploreCSR	PI – Raja Kushalnagar	2019-2020	$18,000
21^st Century Captioning NIDILRR–90DPCP0002	PI – Christian Vogler Co-I – Raja Kushalnagar	2018-2023	$2,375,000
Wearable Sound Sensing NSF–1763219	PI – Raja Kushalnagar PI – Leah Findlater	2018-2022	$100,000
REU AICT Site NSF–1757836	PI – Raja Kushalnagar Co-PI – Christian Vogler	2018-2021	$402,212
MITRE–COE-TRS MITRE–108727	PI – Christian Vogler Co-PI – Raja Kushalnagar	2017-2020	$323,821
REU AMI Site NSF–1460894	PI – Raja Kushalnagar Co-PI – Stephanie Ludi	2015-2018	$385,433
C-Print Attention RIT–31540	Co-PI – Raja Kushalnagar PI – Michael Stinson	2015-2017	$19,700
IP-CTS Assessment MITRE–102871	PI – Raja Kushalnagar Co-PI – Gary Behm	2015-2016	$14,468
Health Text Accessibility RIT–48320	PI – Raja Kushalnagar	2015-2016	$13,000
Real-Time Captioning NSF–1218056	PI – Raja Kushalnagar PI – Jeffrey Bigham	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 PI – Nathan Cahill	2012-2013	$48,395
Visual Cues for DHH RIT–15812	PI – Raja Kushalnagar	2012-2013	$5,000
Time Warner – Research TWC 2013	PI – Raja Kushalnagar	2012-2013	$20,000
Microsoft – Phone Grant	PI – Raja Kushalnagar	2011-2013	$4,000
NTID Innovation Grant RIT–48320	PI – Raja Kushalnagar Co-PI – Brian Trager	2011-2013	$76,922
DHH Cyber-Community NSF–0915268	SP – Raja Kushalnagar PI – Richard Ladner	2010-2012	$69,181
Total of Grants		2010-2023	$4,016,866