Jackie Chan

Jackie is a second year PhD student in the computer science department. He currently studies social computing, a subset of human-computer interaction (HCI) analyzing the dynamics of online communities, with Prof. Eshwar Chandrasekharan. Jackie completed his undergraduate degree at Carleton College in his home state of Minnesota. During his first year at Illinois, he was a teaching assistant for CS 124, previously known as CS 125, in the fall, spring, and summer. After completing his doctorate, Jackie hopes to become a faculty member teaching the next generation of computer scientists.