Awards

Titled Professor - 2021 - 2024

Provost Professor

School of Informatics Young Alumni Award - 2010

About Kay Connelly

Kay Connelly received a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from Indiana University (IU) in 1995. She later earned her master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois in 1999 and 2003, respectively. She is an associate professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at IU Bloomington.

Connelly’s teaching and research interests are in the intersection of mobile and pervasive computing and healthcare. In particular, she is interested in issues that influence user acceptance of health technologies, such as privacy, integration into one's lifestyle, convenience, and utility.

Connelly is the senior associate director for the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research and has recently undertaken the challenge to start a new health Informatics program on the Bloomington campus. This interdisciplinary program will forge new frontiers in the overall management of health by reaching across the boundaries of medicine, technology, security, and real-world application.

In addition to her teaching duties, Connelly is a faculty advisor to the Women in Science program and serves on the executive committee of Women in Informatics and Computing, a student-driven group in Bloomington that works to enhance the education of women in computing and information technology.