I am an Associate Professor, with tenure, at the University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) where I direct the PAC (Power, Affect, and Computing) Lab. I am also affiliated with the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC), the Digital Studies Institute (DSI), and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG). I am also a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google Research.

My research examines the entanglements of power, affect, identity, justice, and gendered health in and with computing — spanning social computing, human-computer interaction, critical data/algorithm studies, and feminist science and technology studies. My NSF CAREER award (2023–2028) examines the ethical, privacy, and justice implications of emotion AI technologies in high-stakes contexts.

I recently completed a sabbatical as Scholar-in-Residence at the Digital Futures Institute, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where I enjoyed the European way of life!

My work is published in venues such as ACM CHI, CSCW, TOCHI, JMIR, Catalyst, and New Media & Society, and featured by media outlets such as CNN, TIME, Fast Company, The Atlantic, and Huffington Post. My publications have received Best Paper and Honorable Mention Awards at CHI and CSCW. My work is supported by the National Science Foundation, including a CAREER award, IRWG, and DSI among others. I serve as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) proceedings, and am a member of the ACM SIGCHI CARES team.

Prior to joining UMSI, I received my Ph.D. in Information Studies from the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University, where I was advised by Dr. Andrea Forte. My generative research as a PhD intern at Yahoo directly contributed to novel, publicly launched communication technology products. I was the recipient of Drexel University's Outstanding Promise Award, and a two-time recipient of the Phoebe W. Haas Endowed Doctoral Fellowship Award. I also hold an M.S. in Socio-technical Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Theoretical Computer Science from Sharif University of Technology.

I enjoy telling stories through my work and hobbies such as photography, and I am an obsessed dog mom to Rufus joon who is an Instagram celebrity.