UMSI PhD students and postdocs on the job market
Damon Carucci
PostDoc
Expertise: Health Justice; Information Environments; Information Practices; Qualitative Methods
Dissertation title: Information Care Work: Cases of Mental Health Access Among Doctoral Students
Yoon Jeong Cha
PhD candidate
Expertise: AI Health Technology; Collaborative Health Tracking
Dissertation title (provisional): Coordinating Care Together: Developing AI-Supported Collaborative Health Tracking Technologies for Children and their Parents
Soo Ji S. Choi
PhD Candidate
Expertise: Digital health, Behavioral medicine, Human-computer interaction
Dissertation title (provisional): Designing for Internalization: Affective Association and Exercise Identity in mHealth Physical Activity Interventions
Shanley Corvite
PhD candidate
Expertise: Young Adulthood, Career Development/Vocational Psychology, Social Media Use & Effects
Dissertation title: Social Media's Role in Career Development during Young Adulthood
Zoë Natalia Cullen
PhD Candidate
Expertise: AI-mediated communication; Human-AI interaction; Conversational AI and LLMs; Self-presentation and identity; Social AI and well-being; Attribution; Relationships and social judgment
Dissertation title: The Algorithmically Networked Self: How AI Curates, Interprets, and Co-Authors Relationships and the Self
Sylvia Darling
PostDoc
Expertise: Information behaviors, community empowerment, theories of social change based on aspirations
Dissertation title: Spinning Gold from the Void: An Ethnography of Information Brokering and Aspiration in Honduras
Nazelie Doghramadjian
PhD Candidate
Expertise: Diaspora Studies; Gender and Women's Studies; Epistemic Injustice; Curation Infrastructures; Ethnography; Qualitative Methods
Dissertation title: Personal Stewardship in the Armenian-American Community: Broadening Institutional Stewardship Definitions and Practices
Sena Kojah
PhD Candidate
Expertise: Social Computing, Human-AI Interaction, Platform Governance, Digital Infrastructure and Labor
Dissertation topic: Designing Platform Governance Policies for High-Stakes Contexts
Qiwei Li
PhD Candidate
Expertise: Online sexual violence, platform governance, AI safety
Dissertation title (provisional): Reporting and Removing Non-consensual Intimate Imagery Online
Pegah Moradi
PostDoc
Expertise: AI and labor; privacy; future of work
Dissertation title: Please Wait, Help Is on the Way: Automation and Pseudo-Automation in Frontline Work
Aadarsh Padiyath
PostDoc
Expertise: Human-Centered AI; Computing Ethics; Computing Education
Dissertation title: Critical Consciousness in Computing Education: From Theory to Measurement to Practice
Jordan Taylor
PostDoc
Expertise: Human-Centered AI; Art & AI; Queer AI; Future of Work; Critical Computing
Dissertation title: Art in the AI of the Beholder: How Queer Art and Artists Challenge Algorithmic Aesthetics
Huiran Yi
PhD Candidate
Expertise: Gender and Technology, Entrepreneurship, Future of Work, Platform, Ethnography
Dissertation title (provisional): Awakening a Feminist Consciousness: Reimagining Chineseness with Women’s Entrepreneurship in a Shifting Global Order
Lotus Zhang
PostDoc
Expertise: Accessibility; Aging; Creativity Support; Human-centered AI; Multimodality Design
Dissertation title: Accessible Digital Content Creation by Blind and Low Vision Individuals