Guido Gioberto

Guido is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research focus is garment-integrated wearable sensing in E-textiles. He graduated with his second Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota(‘11). Both his first Master and Bachelor’s degree are in Telecommunications Engineering, completed at Politecnico di Torino(‘09) and University of Palermo(‘06) respectively.

Tony Carton

Tony is an MFA student in Graphic Design, Interested in graphic and interaction design, and human factors and ergonomics. He is currently researching the effect of text messaging on drivers, He received the B.F.A. in industrial design at Southern Illinois University.

Mary Alice Cheney

Mary Alice is a PhD student in Apparel Studies, Dress, History and Culture track. She earned a B.S.S. from Ohio University and M.S.    from Iowa State University. Her research interests include people’s changing ideas, interactions, and relationships with design, such as the   concept of classic design.

Harini Ramaswamy

Harini is a graduate student majoring in Apparel Studies (Product Development track) at the College of Design, University of Minnesota. She earned her  B.Tech. in Apparel Technology from  Anna University, Chennai, India, after which she interned with the Textiles Committee and the Apparel Training and Design Center (ATDC), Chennai, India. Her research interests include functional apparel design, wearable technology and quality testing of textiles.

Kaila Bibeau

James Coughlin

James is an undergraduate student majoring in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in Digital Signal Processing at the College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota. He is currently researching garment integrated wearable sensors.