I am an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI). I am also affiliated with the Center for Social Media Responsibility (CSMR), the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC), and the Digital Studies Institute. My research interests are in social computing, human-computer interaction, and critical data/algorithm studies. My NSF CAREER grant examines the ethical, privacy, and justice implications of emotion AI technologies in high-stakes contexts.

My work is published in venues such as ACM CHI, CSCW, TOCHI, JMIR, 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, and the Digital Studies Institute among others. I serve as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 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\u2019s 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.