Pamela L. Jennings

Pamela L. Jennings, Ph.D. CEO of CONSTRUKTS, Inc. leads the development of an IoT and mixed-reality platform for learning. Having spent countless years teaching computational technologies to artists and engineers and participating in international communities of makers and hackers, she is deeply knowledgeable in developing products that are rooted in principles of human centered computing (HCC). Pamela is nationally recognized as a thought leader for integrative research and learning across the Arts and Technology with positions and projects for higher education and federal institutions. She worked as a HCC design researcher at IBM Almaden EdTech Research Center and SRI International. She served as a National Science Foundation Program Director and led the CreativeIT program and co-led several other programs in computer science and STEM education. Pamela has been involved in several National Academies of Sciences initiatives including a committee member for the “Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education: Branches from the Same Tree” consensus report. Pamela held the first joint professorial appointment between the Fine Arts and Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She has received multiple National Science Foundation grants in support of research leading toward the CONSTRUKTS EdTech platform.

Pamela L. Jennings received her PhD in Human Centered Systems Design in the Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Integrative Arts at the University of Plymouth School of Computing, Electronics, and Mathematics (UK); MBA at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business; MFA in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts; MA in Studio Art in the International Center of Photography/New York University Program; and BA in Psychology with vocal studies at Oberlin College.