Ranjitha Kumar is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the chief scientist at UserTesting, Inc. Her research has won best paper awards and nominations at premier conferences in human-computer interaction, and is supported by grants from the NSF, Google, Amazon, and Adobe. She received her BS and PhD from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and was previously a co-founder and the chief scientist of Apropose, Inc., a data-driven design startup.