About
Biography
Photo by Phil Smith
Demetrios Karis received a B.A. in Psychology from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Cornell University. After spending five years doing research at the University of Illinois in a cognitive psychophysiology lab, he moved to industry, first at Grumman Aerospace, and then at GTE Labs and Verizon Labs.
At GTE and Verizon, Demetrios worked on user-interface design and the evaluation of consumer products and services, as well as conducting applied research. After Verizon, he started teaching at Bentley University in the Human Factors and Information Design Department, while also working as a contractor at Google, Fidelity, and other companies.
In 2019, he started working with his graduate students at Bentley on research projects with the Massachusetts Trial Court, and continued with a group of volunteer user experience researchers and then by himself. Demetrios has multiple patents and several dozen publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Current Volunteer Work
Court Appointed Special Advocate
Photo by The CASA Project
Demetrios currently serves as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) with the Juvenile Court in Massachusetts, advocating for children in the court system — work that grew out of his long-running research partnership with the Massachusetts Trial Court.