Education

School of Information, University of Michigan
PhD candidate 2007 - present
Adviser: Paul Resnick
MSI Human Computer Interaction student 2006-2007
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA
Bachelors of Science of Engineering, Concentration in Systems Design 2006

Teaching Experience

School of Information, University of Michigan
Graduate Student Instructor
EECS182/SI182 Building Applications for Information EnvironmentsWinter 2009
SI529 Analysis and Design of Online CommunitiesWinter 2009
SI501 Contextual Inquiry and Project ManagementFall 2008

Employment

Intel Labs Seattle / University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Visiting Researcher Summer 2010
Boeing Payloads Concept Center, Everett, WA
Student Design Engineer 2006 - 2009
Facilitated development of Concept Center's five-year project plan. Conducted user experience research workshops for internal teams as well as other companies. Planned workshop on sustainable design methods. Led technical development project that resulted in two prototypes that demonstrate improved customer experience and significant cost and weight savings compared to current solutions. Designed and prototyped an interactive destination space.
Summer Intern 2005
Designed and built subsystem of a concept demonstrator for onboard trash management. Contributed to other Center projects aimed at improving the experience of flight, including an overhead crew rest and a project for pets and their owners.
The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
Intern, Intelligent Information Access Group, Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems 2004
Applied machine learning techniques to corporate annual reports and other documents for fraud detection. Implemented and evaluated performance of text classification tools; contributed to design of overall system.
Spectrum Astro, Gilbert, AZ
Summer Intern, Strategic Planning and Proposal Operations Department 2003
Space Based Space Surveillance proposal ($200M): Coordinated proposal artwork process. Oversaw Past and Present Performance Questionnaires. Assembled résumé volume of proposal. Supported Targets & Countermeasures, GOES-R series, and Innovative Space Based Radar Antenna Technology (ISAT) Space Experiments proposals.
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA
Curriculum & Website Developer 2002
Developed lab assignments using Matlab and C to control physical systems for Engineering Computing course. Recommended equipment purchase. Co-designed the Olin Library website.
York Telecom Corporation, Eatontown, NJ
Web Developer, Engineering Department 2000 - 2001
Developed intranet site to support the engineering department's work and improve their communication with the rest of the company.
Affordable Web Designs, Little Silver NJ
Web developer / sole proprietor 1998 - 2000
Designed and marketed websites for individual clients as well as consulted for Motherboard Media.

Refereed Conference Papers with Proceedings

Munson, S; Lauterbach, D; Newman, M, Resnick, P. (2010). "Happier Together: Integrating a Wellness Application Into a Social Network Site," Persuasive 2010. (Best Paper Nominee)
Munson, S; Resnick, P. (2010). "Presenting Diverse Political Opinions: How and How Much," CHI 2010.
Munson, S; Zhou, DX; Resnick, P. (2009). "Sidelines: An Algorithm for Increasing Diversity in News and Opinion Aggregators." ICWSM 2009.
Munson, S. (2008). "Motivating and Enabling Organizational Memory with a Workgroup Wiki," Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Wikis, Porto, Portugal.
Hansen, D; Ackerman, M; Resnick, P; Munson, S. (2007). "Virtual Community Maintenance with a Repository," Proceedings of ASIS&T 2007, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Fredholm, S; Krejcarek, J; Krumholz, S; Lindquist, D; Munson S; Bourne, J; Schiffman, S. (2002). "Designing an Engineering Entrepreneurship Curriculum for Olin College," ASEE Annual Meeting & Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Refereed Presentations and Posters

Munson, S; Zhou, DX; Resnick, P. (2009). "Designing Interfaces for Presentation of Opinion Diversity," Extended Abstracts CHI 2009, Boston, Massachusetts.
Lee, D; Munson S; Congleton, B; Ackerman, M; Newman, M; Finholt, T; Hofer, E. (2009). "Montage: A platform for physically navigating multiple pages of web content," Extended Abstracts CHI 2009, Boston, Massachusetts.
Hansen, D; Munson, S (2008). "Patient-Driven Content Creation: Effectively Introducing Wiki Repositories to Virtual Support Communities", Medicine 2.0, Toronto, Canada.
Munson, S; Resnick, P (2008). "Political Discussions on Non-political Blogs," Proceedings of Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing: Conference on Online Deliberation, Berkeley, California.
Gukeisen, M; Hutchful, D; Kleymeer, P; Munson, S. (2007). "altVerto: Using interventions and community experiences to promote alternative transportation," Extended Abstracts CHI 2007, San Jose, California. (First place, Student Design Competition.)
Chang, C; Ferro, L; Gibson, J; Hitzeman, J; Lubar, S; Palmer, J; Munson, S; Vilain, M; and Wellner, B. (2006). "Maytag: A multi-staged approach to identifying complex events in textual data," Conference of the European Chapter for Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy.
Laughlin, C; Cummings, C; Lee, A; Munson, S; Tsai, J. (2006). "They Speak: One-on-One Interviews with Female Engineering Students on Project-based Learning," ASEE Regional Conference, 17 March 2006, Worchester, Massachusetts.

Invited Talks and Panels

Munson, S. "Selecting and Presenting Diverse Political Opinions Online," dub Seminar, University of Washington. 21 July 2010.
Munson, S. "Happier Together: Integrating a Wellness Application Into a Social Network Site," dub Seminar, University of Washington. 23 June 2010.
Munson, S. Presenting Diverse Political Opinions: How and How Much," FIRST Seminar, School of Information, University of Michigan. 15 January 2010.
Munson, S and Bakshy, E. "Mechanical Turk for Social Science," Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, School of Information, University of Michigan. 28 October 2009.
Mader, S; Jang, S; Goodman, D; Goksever, C; Aunesluoma, A; Wilenius, H; Munson, S; Hansen, D; Seibert, M; Slaghuis, L; Junghanns, H. "WikFest: Starting and Growing Successful Wikis," 2008 International Symposium on Wikis, Porto, Portugal. 10 September 2008.
Munson, S. "Internet Meetups and Community," 2006 Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium Student Conference, Wellesley, Massachusetts. 3 March 2006.

Workshops and Workshop Papers

Munson, S. (2010). "Participation and Polarization," Technology Mediated Social Participation. NSF Workshop. Ballston, VA, 22-23 April 2010
Munson, S; Lauterbach, D; Newman, M, Resnick, P; Morris, M. (2010) "Integrating Wellness Interventions with Existing Social Network Sites," Wellness Informatics Workshop. CHI 2010. 10 April 2010.
Munson, S; Lauterbach, D; Newman, M, Resnick, P; Morris, M. (2010). "The Opportunity of Social Computing to Make Us Healthier Together," Workshop on CSCW Research in Healthcare: Past, Present, and Future. CSCW 2010.

Doctoral Consortia and Mentoring Programs

Doctoral Consortium. Persuasive 2010. June 2010. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mentoring Program. Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare, CHI 2010. April 2010. Atlanta, Georgia.
Doctoral Consortium. Conference on Communities and Technologies. June 2009. Pennsylvania State University.

Research Funding

REU Supplement to "BALANCE: Optimizing News and Opinion Aggregators for Diversity." NSF IIS Small #0916099 Amendment #001. Supplement coauthored with PI Paul Resnick. $16,000.
"BALANCE: Optimizing News and Opinion Aggregators for Diversity." NSF IIS Small #0916099. Co-authored with PI Paul Resnick and Daniel Xiaodan Zhou. $499,312.
"Social Software for Wellness Interventions." 2009. University of Michigan Rackham Graduate Pre-Candidate Research Grant. $1,500.
REU Supplement to "Manipulation-Resistant Recommender Systems." NSF IIS Small #0812042 Amendment #001. Supplement coauthored with investigator Paul Resnick. $16,000.
"Opinion Diversity in Online Political Discussions." 2008. Yahoo! Key Technical Challenge Grant. $5,000.

Patents

Franko, B; Giuntoli, D; Senoadi, N; Robb, C; Munson, S; Bengtsson, R; Mitchell, B; Fletcher, H (2006). Flight Portal, United States Patent Application #20080136839 (pending).
Munson, S; Lamoree, B; Guard, P (2006). System and method for electronically latching compartments, United States Patent Application #20080078871 (pending).

Professional & Institutional Service

Reviewing and conference organizing
Hemphill; Munson S (co-organizers; 2008). "Training, Integration, and Identity: A Roundable Discussion of Undergraduate and Professional Master's Programs in iSchools," iConference 2008, Los Angeles, California
Reviewer
    CHI
    CSCW
    JCSCW
    Journal of Information Technology & Politics
    Conference on Communities and Technologies
    The Information Society

School of Information, University of Michigan
Doctoral Executive Committee, Doctoral Student Organiation2010 - 2011
North Quad Committee (new facility)2009 - present
Faculty Search Committee2008 - 2009
Curriculum Committee2006 - 2007
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Strategic Advisory Committee2005 - 2006
Organizational Health Committee2003 - 2004
Information Technology Working Group2002 - 2004
Council of Olin Representatives (student government)
    Vice President of Student Initiatives
    President
    Development committee member
2003 - 2004
2002 - 2003
2001 - 2002
Olin Volunteer Ambassadors League2001 - 2004
Curricular Decision Making Board2002
Olin Partner Year2001 - 2002

Community Service

FIRST Robotics Competition
Advised students on team at Hyde Park High School, Hyde Park, MA2004
Autodesk Visualization Award — created system for regional judging2003
Advised 14-school team, created demonstration board featured at the kick-off workshop2002
Boy Scouts of America
Order of the Arrow Vigil Honor member, Lodge Chief, Section Vice Chief1997 - 2002
Junior Leadership Training Course Staff, Monmouth Council2000 - 2001
Count Basie Learning Center, Red Bank, NJ
Systems and Network Administrator1998 - 2001

Awards

Gary M. Olson Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award, School of Information, University of Michigan2010
Yahoo! Innovative Teaching with Technology Award2009
First place, CHI Student Design Competition2007
School of Information Scholarship2006 - 2007
Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation GRFP2006, 2007
Olin Scholarship2001 - 2006
AT&T Scholarship2001 - 2005
Founders Award, Order of the Arrow, BSA2001
National Merit Scholar2001
Eagle Scout, BSA1999