Associate Professor of Information; School of Information
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About
am an Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan where I direct the Living Online Lab (LOL). My research focuses on equity and justice in online environments. Some current projects in my group are promoting justice for targets of online harassment, measuring dark patterns in design and algorithms, and supporting identity and privacy on social media. At UM, I am a faculty affiliate with the Digital Studies Institute, the Science and Technology in Public Policy program, and the Michigan Institute for Data Science, among others. Externally, I am a Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Yale Information Society Project, and the Yale Justice Collaboratory.
My work has received Best Paper and Honorable Mention Awards at CHI and CSCW and I received the NSF CAREER award, the UMSI Faculty award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the ACM CSCW Service award. My work has been covered regularly in the New York Times, Washington Post, and on NPR as well as in Forbes, The Telegraph, CBS News, ABC News, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Seventeen Magazine, Vogue Australia, etc. A complete list of publications is here.
I received my PhD in Human-Centered Computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech where I was advised by Dr. Amy Bruckman. During my graduate work, I interned with HP Lab's Social Computing group and Microsoft Research's Social Media Group. I received my MS from the School of Information at UC Berkeley and my BA from Dartmouth College in Computer Engineering. I am half Indian and half Australian.
Teaching
I teach graduate and undergraduate courses at UMSI, including Algorithms & Society, Information Ethics, User Experience, Capstones, Online Communities, and Interaction Design.