Dr. Elizabeth Murnane
Principal Investigator

Meet Dr. LizMurnane

Dr. Elizabeth Murnane is an assistant professor at Dartmouth specializing in human–computer interaction, information science, and social computing, with a focus on digital health applications.

She directs the Empower Lab, which develops inclusive, equity-driven personal informatics and behavioral intervention technologies using diverse interfaces—such as AR/VR, games, tangibles, and socially assistive robots—to empower underserved users.

Prior to Dartmouth, she earned her PhD in Information Science at Cornell, completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Computer Science at Stanford, and began her career building interactive visualization tools at a CSAIL startup after graduating from MIT in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Our Team

Current Team

Meet the talented researchers, students, and collaborators driving innovation at the Empower Lab

Liz Murnane

Liz Murnane

Assistant professor

Engineering

Shirin Amouei

Shirin Amouei

PhD student

Computer Science

Vafa Batool

Vafa Batool

PhD student

Computer Science

Hannah Dorris

Hannah Dorris

PhD student

Quantitative Biomedical Sciences

Dylan Moore

Dylan Moore

PhD student

Engineering

Emma Ricci-De Lucca

Emma Ricci-De Lucca

PhD student

Engineering

Allen Song

Allen Song

PhD student

Engineering

Songyun Tao

Songyun Tao

PhD student

Computer Science

Our Legacy

Alumni Network

Former lab members who continue to make impact in academia, industry, and beyond

Pape Sow Traoré

Pape Sow Traoré

MS student, Staff

Computer Science

Teja Chatty

Teja Chatty

PhD student

Engineering

Dominic Carrese

Dominic Carrese

MS student

Engineering

Sid Patil

Sid Patil

MS student

Engineering

Interested in Joining Our Team?

We're always looking for passionate researchers and students to join our mission