Jomara Sandbulte is an Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota, Duluth (UMD), Department of Computer Science in the Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE).

She is a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researcher with an expertise in Health Informatics. Sandbulte’s work explores how technology can be used to support individuals’ health and wellbeing by examining existing systems and building alternatives.  More specifically,  her research focuses on understanding how people use technology to share and collaborate, to learn, to manage their lives.

Her research has shed important light on health informatics in HCI and design research, and it has appeared in leading computing venues including ACM CSCW, Pervasive Health, ASIS&T and iConference. Also, she has published at important journals such as International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI) and International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS).

Prior to graduate school, she worked in industry as mobile developer and other solutions at Samsung Research, Latin America.

She holds a Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technology from The Pennsylvania State University and a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), SP - Brazil.