Allison Gyle Woodruff is an American computer scientist whose work concerns human–computer interaction, information visualization, algorithmic fairness, sustainability, citizen science, and environmental monitoring. She is a user experience researcher in the Google Security & Privacy team.[1]
Woodruff majored in English at California State University, Chico, and has master's degrees in both linguistics and computer science from the University of California, Davis.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in computer science in 1998 at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation Data Lineage and Information Density in Database Visualization supervised by Michael Stonebraker.[3]
Before joining Google, she worked for Xerox PARC from 1998 to 2004,[2] and then for Intel Research Berkeley.[1]
Woodruff was named to the CHI Academy in 2021.[4]