University of Michigan School of Information

Jane Im
Biography
I am a fifth year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information and Computer Science & Engineering, where I am advised by Dr. Florian Schaub (SI advisor) and Dr. Nikola Banovic (CSE advisor). I'm completing both Ph.D. programs' requirements.
As a Human-Computer Interaction researcher, I design and build consentful social computing systems. Specifically, I combine systems-building, empirical methods, and theoretical approaches to tackle integrity issues on social platforms, such as online harassment, surveillance, and data ownership problems. By focusing on the relationship between such issues and users’ consent, I develop ways to improve socio-technical systems’ privacy controls, safety and governance tools, and business models in the hopes of contributing to designing a safer internet.
Pronouns
she/her
Areas of Interest
HCI, social media, consent, digital safety, privacy, data ownership
Honors and Awards
Finalist for University of Michigan CSE Graduate Student Honors Competition 2022
Barbour Scholar 2022-2023
Finalist for Meta PhD Research Fellowship 2022
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award 2021
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021)
Best Paper Runner Up Award 2020
ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci 2020)
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Sept. 2018 - Present
Ph.D. in Information & Computer Science and Engineering
School of Information
Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Mar. 2013 - Aug. 2018
B.B.A. in Business Administration
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering