Dr. Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones
Associate Dean in Residence and Director of the Office for Graduate Student Diversity Initiatives

Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones is Associate Dean in Residence and Director of the Office for Graduate Student Diversity Initiatives at the Graduate School, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and a member of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech.
Pérez-Quiñones holds a DSc in Computer Science from The George Washington University. His research interests include human-computer interaction, personal information management, user interface software, digital government, and educational uses of computers. He is a member of the Coalition to Diversify Computing, where he co-directs the national program Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Science and Engineering. He serves on the editorial board for the Journal on Educational Resources in Computing. For 2008-2010 has been included in the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor program.

Dr. Pérez-Quiñones is Director of the Personal Information Management Research lab. The PIM lab studies how individuals use technology to organize and use their information to satisfy their day to day information needs. The group studies how to best make use of our limited personal resources (time, money, energy, attention) to improve the quality of our lives. His research group has also explored the issue of culture and multi-language interfaces for communities that live within a different culture. He is also a member of the Digital Goverment Research group, and a member of the Center for Human- Computer Interaction research center.