Suguru Ishizaki is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Design in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon. Before this appointment, he worked at QUALCOMM on the research and development of mobile user interfaces. Prior to that, he was on the faculty of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon. His professional experience ranges from user interface design to information visualization to traditional print design. His current research focuses on visual communication pedagogy—including intelligent critiquing systems, assessment methods, visual communication literacy, and online self-learning environments for non-designers. He has also been working on the development of computational methods for describing and analyzing communication artifacts that integrate visual and verbal expressions. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. at MIT where he studied under Muriel Cooper and William Mitchell at the Media Laboratory, after receiving his Bachelor Art & Design from Tsukuba University, Japan. He is the author of Improvisational Design: Continuous Responsive Digital Communication (MIT Press, 2003), and a co-author of The Power of words: Unveiling the Speaker and Writer’s Hidden Craft (Erlbaum 2004).
