I am researching how we can design and build an internet that is safe and empowering for people from marginalized groups. I want to help people feel safe and have agency in their online experiences.
To do so, I find ways to protect people's consent on the internet. In particular, I focus on designing and building social systems grounded in consent to tackle problems both in the user-to-company context (e.g., privacy and data ownership issues) and user-to-user context (e.g., online harassment). Unsurprisingly, I find these contexts deeply related to each other, so I decided to research both. Specifically, I am researching social systems' privacy controls, online governance, and business models that center users' consent.
I'm a Barbour Scholar and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information and the Division of Computer Science & Engineering. I am very lucky to be advised by Dr. Florian Schaub (from the Security Privacy Interaction (SPI) Lab) and Dr. Nikola Banovic (from the Computational HCI Lab). I am also part of the Interactive Systems Lab. My general research interests are at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, Privacy, Feminist Studies, and Business Management. I like interdisciplinary work.
- 03/14/2022: I'm selected as a Barbour Scholar! Barbour Scholarship supports "students working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious, and impactful" who are women from the Middle East and Asia. I'm very excited and grateful for my advisors' support. And as an Asian woman, this means a lot to me.
- 02/17/2022: I'm invited to give a talk in March at Expertise@Scale, a research group led by professor Chinmay Kulkarni at CMU.
- 02/10/2022: An exciting paper Hari Subramonyam led and I contributed to was conditionally accepted to CHI 2022. Congratulations Hari and team!
- 02/02/2022: I am one of the finalists for the Meta PhD Research Fellowship (Privacy and Data Use).
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