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Welcome!

I am currently working at SurveyMonkey in the Front-End Platforms organization. I am the service owner and contributor to the marketing and help web sites at SurveyMonkey.

After 13+ years as a researcher at NYNEX Science & Technology and IBM Research, I moved to the West Coast. I started at the first of my two stints at startups - Metaweb Technologies - developing UI, AJAX technologies, and applications for Semantic Web. In 2007, I joined Nokia Research Center where I explored and developed new Internet Services and Solutions in the Mobile, Collaboration, and Business Enterprise spaces. As part of my team, we joined the Bing organization of Microsoft working in the Geospatial area. In 2013, we shipped two versions of the Win 8.1 Maps apps - 2D Maps and 3D Maps. Along with many members of the map organization, I joined my second startup - Uber - where I was part of the visualization team that helped the ride-sharing organization use large-scale visualization tool to model, analyze, investigate and simulate markeplace situations. In late June of 2020, I joined SurveyMonkey, now owned by a private equity fund.

Research Areas: Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Multimedia Information Access and Management.

Research Topics: Accessibility, Communities, Computing-off-the-Desktop, Multimodal Interactions, Personal Information Access and Management, Social Information Visualization, Sociable Collaborative Spaces, UI Programming Models, Virtual Meetings, and Web Application Development.

Gary Poock Best Paper Award at AVIOS 2005
T.V. Raman and I co-authored an AVIOS best paper entitled Speech-Enablement of Eclipse IDE and Eclipse Rich Client Applications Using AspectJ.

Woodworker: Maker Nexus member.

Stock and options trader: Manage personal investment portfolio. Checkout the portfolio tracking software that Andreas and I wrote to manage our portfolios.

Sports: Squash, hiking, skiiing, and swimming.

Tinkerer: Embed simple programmable electronics in woodwork objects.

Contact Information
Alison Lee
Palo Alto, CA 94306
(650) 323-3629
 alee@webcollab.com