The Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) is pleased to announce the appointment of David Ribes as an Associate Professor in HCDE. Dr. Ribes will join HCDE's faculty beginning in August 2015. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Communication, Culture and Technology (CCT) Program at Georgetown University, and during the 2014-2015 academic year held a faculty fellowship at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). 
 
Ribes is a sociologist of science and technology who focuses on the development and sustainability of research infrastructures (i.e., networked information technologies for the support of interdisciplinary science); their relation to long-term changes in the conduct of science; and epistemic transformations in objects of research. His current investigations focus on the ‘ecology of AIDS research infrastructures,’ studying the changing sociotechnical architectures that have supported HIV/AIDS science over the past 30 years. In the past he has focused on the development of ‘cyberinfrastructures’ supporting research in geoscience, ecology, physics and biomedicine. His methods are ethnographic, archival-historical and comparative. Ribes received his PhD in Sociology and Science Studies from the University of California San Diego in 2006. He received his undergraduate degree in Sociology from York University in 1998, his Masters from McGill University in 2000, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan School of Information in 2007-2008.

See davidribes.com to learn more, and join HCDE in welcoming David in August 2015.