Biography
Michelle L. Rogers, PhD is an associate professor in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. Dr. Rogers is engaged in research and teaching at the intersection of people, technology and information, primarily but not exclusively, in the healthcare domain. For more than 15 years, she has focused on solving three focused research problems (1) the evaluation of implementing and designing information technology in complex work systems, (2) the inefficient and ineffective healthcare information technology (HIT) used by healthcare providers’ with and by medically underserved communities (patient portals and electronic medical records) and (3) understanding the success of women and girls’ participation in STEM fields/careers. She has used techniques from industrial and systems engineering, sociotechnical systems theory, user interface design methodologies, scenario-based user evaluation and participatory design. She has secured funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Spencer Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Nokia Corporation. Internationally, Dr. Rogers has investigated HIT in the Ugandan maternal health system among midwives and other community health workers. Most recently, she is collaborating with faculty from industrial design, dance and education to understand how making, arts, and coding can assist in making the realization of a career in STEM fields achievable – Black Girls Steaming through Dance (BGSD). From 2020 - 2022, she served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation in the Computing and Networking Systems (CNS) division of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate. There, she was working on the Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) efforts.
Research Areas
- Data Science
- Human-Centered Computing
- STEAM Education
Research Interests
Human-computer interaction, human centered computing, human factors engineering, women & girls of color in technology, broadening participation in computing/STEM, socio-technical systems, health services research, patient safety, global health, midwifery practice & ICT use
Academic Distinctions
- PhD, Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- MS, Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- MA, Educational Leadership, Eastern Michigan University
- BS and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Dual Degree Engineering Program), Spelman College/Georgia Institute of Technology