Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information and Assistant Professor of Digital Studies Institute, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
School of Information/105 S State St.
phone: 734.763.2285
About
I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) where I direct the Marginality in Socio-technical Systems (MiSTS) Research Group. I am also affiliated with the Center for Social Media Responsibility (CSMR), the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC), and the Digital Studies Institute. My research interests are in social computing and human-computer interaction. Specifically, I study the interplay between marginality and technology. I examine how marginality is experienced, enacted, facilitated, or (can be) disrupted in and as mediated through sociotechnical systems. My NSF CAREER grant examines the ethical, privacy, and justice implications of emotion AI technologies in high stakes contexts. My CV (last updated 1/31/2024) is available here.
My work is published in venues such as ACM CHI, CSCW, TOCHI, JMIR, and New Media and Society, and featured by media outlets such as CNN, TIME, Fast Company, The Atlantic, and Huffington Post. My publications have received multiple awards at ACM CHI and CSCW. My publications have received Best Paper and Honorable Mention Awards at CHI and CSCW. My work is supported by the National Science Foundation including a CAREER award, the Digital Studies Institute, and Institute for Research on Women and Gender. I serve as an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) journal and am a member of the ACM SIGCHI CARES team.
Prior to joining UMSI, I received my Ph.D. in Information Studies from the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University where I was advised by Dr. Andrea Forte. My generative research as a PhD intern at Yahoo directly contributed to novel publicly launched communication technology products. I was also the recipient of Drexel University’s Outstanding Promise Award, and a two-times recipient of the Phoebe W. Haas Endowed Doctoral Fellowship Award. I also hold a M.S. in Socio-technical Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Theoretical Computer Science from Sharif University of Technology. I enjoy telling stories through my work and hobbies such as photography. I am an obsessed dog mom to Rufus joon.
