Resume
Academic Achievements
- First-authored paper accepted to CHI 2025: 'Understanding Socio-technical Factors Configuring AI Non-Use in UX Work Practices'
- Co-organized CSCW 2025 workshop 'Exploring Resistance and Other Oppositional Responses to AI'
- Recipient of Georgia Tech’s Center for Teaching and Learning Thanks-a-Teacher Award (Dec 2024)
- Awarded $5,000 Seed Grant from AIAI as PI for 'AI non-use toolkits for design and creative professionals' (Nov 2024)
- Presented 'Ethics Pathways' at Mila – Quebec AI Institute’s Human-Centered AI Reading Group (Aug 2024)
- Multiple publications in top-tier venues including CHI, DIS, and EMNLP
Background
- Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, advised by Dr. Richmond Wong
- Works in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, and Science and Technology Studies (STS)
- Critically investigates sociotechnical dynamics in AI development and deployment
- Explores when, why, and how AI is adopted, refused, or deliberated within organizations
- Examines how notions of the 'local' emerge in the global AI landscape through discourses of AI sovereignty enacted by states, tech companies, and practitioners