Dr. Marc Abrams
Dr. Abrams serves as Harmonia's President and CTO. He provides technical and business leadership to the company and manages all its technical projects. In the past, Dr. Abrams has been with the former U.S. Army Concepts Analysis Agency, a post-doc in the Distributed Operating Systems group in Stanford's Computer Science Department, and a Visiting Scientist in the network protocol group at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland. He has been the Principal Investigator for almost $20M in research and development projects with IBM, MDA, NAVAIR, NAVSEA, NSF, ONR, OSD, Raytheon, and SAIC. He received his PhD from the University of Maryland at College Park in Computer Science.
Before Harmonia, Dr. Abrams was a tenured associate professor at Virginia Tech, where his research on Human-Computer Interfaces led to the creation of UIML and later the co-founding of Harmonia. UIML forms the basis for Harmonia's LiquidApps® product. At Virginia Tech, he also co-founded the Center for Human Computer Interaction, and worked with HCI faculty in fields ranging from cognitive psychology to human factors on scenario-driven HCI design.
