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I am a third-year PhD student in Communication at University of Southern California with a graduate certificate in Science and Technology Studies (STS). During the course of my PhD, I studied information design and user research to pursue my research interest in Human-Computer Interaction. I also work as an Assistant Editor at a peer-reviewed journal in Communication studies. I am advised by Professor Jennifer Petersen, Christina Dunbar-Hester and Dr. Aisling Kelliher. My research explores the digital mediation of emotions in the empirical sites of technologies such as smart wearables and chatbots. My ongoing and published work studies topics such as digital grief and care pratices in more-than-human context. I employ a variety of methods in my critical HCI scholarship including survey, ethnography, interview, design research methods and more. Prior to joining Annenberg, I studied East Asian studies and Media Arts and Practice. Outside of school, I worked as a journalist at multiple international news outlets. I also write, with both pen and light. Check out my creative writing pieces on substack, or casually critique my photography work on instagram.
Research concentrations: Feminist STS, Critical HCI, Design Ethics, Affective Computing