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We're an interdisciplinary group across multiple institutions. Faculty, postdocs, graduate students, affiliates, and alumni are listed below (in alphabetical order within each section) except when we've failed at alphabetizing.
We're an interdisciplinary group at Northwestern University and the University of Washington. Faculty, postdocs, graduate students, affiliates, and alumni are listed below (in alphabetical order within each section) except when we've failed at alphabetizing.


You can see pictures of all together over at our [[group photos]] page. Pictures of us individually are below.
You can see pictures of all together over at our [[group photos]] page. Picture of us individually are here.


We are a friendly group and we welcome new affiliates! If you have been working with us for a while, perhaps it's time to add yourself to this page as an affiliate. Feel free to add yourself (use the Edit tab) in the appropriate subsection organized alphabetically by last name, and please include a sentence on HOW you are related to the group (and a fun picture of yourself!).
We are a friendly group, and we welcome new affiliates! If you have been working with us for a while, perhaps it's time to add yourself to this page as an affiliate. Feel free to add yourself (use the Edit tab), and please include a sentence on HOW you are related to the group (and a fun picture of yourself!).
 
You can read more about [https://wiki.communitydata.science/CommunityData:Roles these categories in our Roles page here].


== Faculty ==
== Faculty ==
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=== Jeremy Foote (Purdue University) ===
[[File:Jeremy.jpg|thumb|200px|Jeremy and his family on a very flat Midwest hike]]
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I grew up in Nevada, did my undergrad (in English!) at BYU in Utah, and then worked as a practitioner of online collaboration. I was the product manager for a small [https://www.lingotek.com/ collaborative translation company] in Utah. I decided that I cared a lot more about understanding collaboration than designing software, and I came back to school. I did a Master's degree at Purdue, studying with [https://www.cla.purdue.edu/communication/directory/?p=Seungyoon_Lee Seungyoon Lee], and then worked on a PhD at Northwestern, as a member of CDSC. I'm now back at Purdue in the [https://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/communication/ Brian Lamb School of Communication], this time as a faculty member.
Most of my current research is focused around understanding how people decide where to participate in online communities--why people start new communities, how community membership influences future behavior, and how communication structures relate to community outcomes. I'm particularly interested in how these decisions scale up into the social construction of understanding, knowledge, and opinion. More about my research is at my [http://www.jeremydfoote.com academic homepage].


Much of my spare time is spent with my family (my wife and I have 5 kids!) or with my [http://www.mormon.org church community]. I love the Midwest but really miss hiking and skiing in the mountains and try to do both as much as possible.
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[[File:Mako-Meitu-201701.jpg|thumb|200px|Unedited picture of Mako in Berlin (2016).]]
[[File:Mako-Meitu-201701.jpg|thumb|200px|Unedited picture of Mako in Berlin (2016).]]


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After contributing peer production communities in various ways since I was a teenager, I began to realize (the hard way) that peer production rarely works and that getting it to work remained much more art than science. After being talked into the idea that academia was the right place to fix this by [https://evhippel.mit.edu/ Eric von Hippel], I've devoted the last decade of my life to trying to contribute to an emerging science of Internet-based collaborative production.  
 
Since starting as an academic, I have published tens of thousand of [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103184 articles]—nearly all of them are [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L2768 the].
After contributing peer production communities in various ways since I was a teenager, I began to realize (the hard way) that building community online is... difficult and complicated! After being (mostly) convinced that academia was the right place to fix this, I've spent an increasingly large portion of my life to trying to contribute to an emerging science of Internet-based collaborative production. Since beginning my academic career, I have published tens of thousand of [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103184 articles]! Sadly, nearly all of them are words [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L2768 the], [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L2767#F1 a], and [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L2767#F2 an].


In the more boring accounting (which I've copied and pasted from elsewhere): I am an Associate Professor in the University of Washington Department of Communication and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the departments of Human-Centered Design and Engineering as well as in the Information School and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. At UW, I am also Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, the eScience Institute, and the "Design Use Build" (DUB) group that supports research on on human computer interaction. I am also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and an affiliate of the Institute of Quantitative Social Science at Harvard.
In the more boring accounting (which I've copied and pasted from elsewhere): I am an Assistant Professor in the University of Washington Department of Communication and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering. At UW, I am also Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, the eScience Institute, and the "Design Use Build" (DUB) group that supports research on on human computer interaction. I am also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and an affiliate of the Institute of Quantitative Social Science at Harvard.


Much more information is on [https://mako.cc/academic/ my academic homepage].  If you need to find me, I have put [https://mako.cc/contact/ more detailed contact information online] than I probably should.
Much more information is on [https://mako.cc/academic/ my academic homepage].  If you need to find me, I have put [https://mako.cc/contact/ more detailed contact information online] than I probably should.


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=== Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University) ===
=== Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University) ===


[[File:Shaw-2017.jpg|thumb|250px|Airbrushed, filtered, and meitu'd purikura of Aaron from 2017]]  
[[File:ShawAaron-headshot-2012.jpg|thumb|250px|Airbrushed, filtered, and meitu'd purikura of Aaron in Evanston (2012ish)]]  


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Hello! I'm Aaron. I grew up around New York and went to school for a good long while in northern California. Along the way, I got involved in participatory movements and projects of various kinds. At first, these were more traditional movements promoting egalitarian social agendas and open organization. Over time, I got excited about and involved in peer production projects, online communities, and other sorts of online collaboration.


Hello! I'm Aaron (he/they). I grew up around New York and went to school for a while in northern California. Along the way, I got involved in participatory movements and projects of various kinds. At first, these were more traditional movements advancing egalitarian social agendas. Over time, I got involved in peer production projects, online communities, and other sorts of open collaboration online.
These days, I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern where I currently direct the [http://mts.northwestern.edu Media, Technology & Society (MTS) Program]. At Northwestern, I am also part of the [http://tsb.northwestern.edu Technology & Social Behavior Program], courtesy appointed in the Northwestern sociology department, a faculty associate of the Institute for Policy Research, the Buffett Institute, and the SONIC lab. Elsewhere, I am a faculty associate of the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society] at Harvard University. A good place to find more information is [http://aaronshaw.org my website]. If you'd like to get in touch, please [mailto:aaronshaw@northwestern.edu send me an email] (and don't be shy about re-sending if I don't reply).


These days, I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern where I am affiliated with the [http://mts.northwestern.edu Media, Technology & Society (MTS) Program] and the [http://tsb.northwestern.edu Technology & Social Behavior Program], courtesy appointed in the Sociology Department, a faculty associate of the Institute for Policy Research, the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, the Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design, and the SONIC lab. Elsewhere, I am a faculty associate of the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society] at Harvard University. A good place to find more information is [http://aaronshaw.org my website]. If you'd like to get in touch, please [mailto:aaronshaw@northwestern.edu send me an email] (and don't be shy about re-sending if I don't reply).
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=== Madison Deyo (Northwestern University) ===
=== Sayamindu Dasgupta (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) ===


[[File:MadisonDeyo.jpg|thumb|200px]]
[[File:Sayamindu.jpg|thumb|200px|Sayamindu, mildly perturbed.]]


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I grew up in the city of Kolkata, India. At some point in school I wanted to study Physics, but then soon after, I came across computers, which messed up my plans considerably. Roughly 9 years after I had my first encounter with a com­puter, I read Sey­mour Papert’s ''Mind­storms: Chil­dren, Com­put­ers and Pow­er­ful Ideas'', and a year after that, I found myself at the MIT Media Lab, as a grad­u­ate stu­dent in a [https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/lifelong-kindergarten/overview/ research group] that, among other things, continue the work Sey­mour and his colleagues had started many years ago.


Hello ! I'm Madison (she/they) and I am the Program Coordinator for the Community Data Science Collective and the [https://hci.northwestern.edu Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design at Northwestern University].  
After getting a PhD from MIT, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington's eScience Institute and was hosted by the Department of Communication. Currently, I am an assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science, UNC Chapel Hill, where I study, design, and build pathways that engage young people in learning with data. I also do a considerable amount of learning with data myself, where I use (mostly) quantitative methods to study how children and youth learn in large-scale informal online communities.


I currently live in Chicago, but grew up in a small town in Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There, I received my B.S. in Art (with a focus on illustration) and Communications: Radio-TV-Film.  
You can find more about my work on my [https://unmad.in homepage].
 
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I work as a freelance artist on the side designing mead labels, tattoos, and occasionally album/EP covers. You can check out my work on [https://gothgrandadart.crevado.com/ my portfolio].


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== Postdocs ==  
=== Sneha Narayan (Carleton College) ===


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[[File:Snehaphoto.jpg|thumb|200px|Sneha hanging out by Lake Michigan]]
=== Nathan TeBlunthuis (University of Michigan) ===
I'm faculty in the Computer Science department at [https://www.carleton.edu/ Carleton College]. Before that, I was a PhD candidate in the Technology and Social Behavior program at Northwestern University, advised by Aaron Shaw (whose bio you can find by scrolling up a couple of sections). I grew up in Bangalore, India, studied mathematics at Oberlin College, and received a masters degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University, Budapest.
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== Core Students ==
I've spent many years living in housing co-ops, and volunteering on the boards of co-operative organizations. My involvement in the co-op movement led to my interest in learning more (and producing knowledge) about participatory, volunteer-run endeavors such as peer production projects and online collaboration communities. My research focuses on understanding how newcomers join and become embedded in volunteer-run organizations, and what kinds of technological interventions might affect their continued participation in these communities. For (slightly) more information about all this, you can check out my [http://www.snehanarayan.com/ homepage].


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=== Kevin Ackermann (Northwestern University) ===
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Hiiii! I'm Kevin. (∩｀-´)⊃━☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ


I'm a second year PhD Student in the Media, Technology and Society program at Northwestern University. I'm interested in studying impacts of commercialization on digital community space, historicizing platform governance conversations, and thinking about the political (and emotional) ramifications of quantification. In the past, my attempts to study these topics have largely revolved around studying dead computer networks of the 80s and 90s. Said another way, I'm interested in how communities form and falter online, and what it's like to be a part of one.


I've spent years of my pre-PhD life honing archival methodology skills, so I'm a sucker for qualitative storytelling, but I hope to try out myriad methods in my graduate studies. There are so many ways to know things!
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=== Kaylea Champion (University of Washington) ===
=== Kaylea Champion (University of Washington) ===


[[File:Kaylea-Champion-300x300.jpg|thumb|200px|Kaylea in purple and blue.]]
I am investigating how society creates (or fails to create) humane online environments -- those which enable connection, exploration, and collaboration.  
 
I (she/her) am investigating how organizations collaborate to build information public goods -- groovy things like Linux and Wikipedia. What gets made and maintained -- and what gets neglected?


After growing up in Oregon, I spent two decades in Chicago, primarily at the University of Chicago as an academic technology director and consultant. I have a BA in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and an MS in Computer Science, both from the University of Chicago. I also hold an MA in Critical & Creative Thinking from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
After growing up in Oregon, I spent two decades in Chicago, primarily at the University of Chicago as an academic technology director and consultant. I have a BA in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and an MS in Computer Science, both from the University of Chicago. I also hold an MA in Critical & Creative Thinking from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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=== Hsuen-Chi (Hazel) Chiu (Purdue University) ===
[[File:Hazel games.JPG|thumb|200px|Hazel in May 2022]]
Hello! I am a First year PhD student in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University and I am on Media, Technology and Society track. I am advised by Dr. Jeremy Foote. I study computer-mediated communication, especially using quantitative and computational approaches. I am interested in seeing how people using different affordances on social media to manage their privacy, identity and self-disclosure across platforms. I am also interested in looking at how misinformation spreads on social media.
Before coming to Purdue, I earned my MS degree in Media Science focusing on Marketing Communication Research at Boston University.
Outside research, I like baseball games, foods, traveling and dogs.


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=== Carl Colglazier (Northwestern University) ===


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[[File:Jeremy.jpg|thumb|200px|Jeremy and his son Will, who had just heard about some of the lab's recent findings]]
=== Yibin Fan (University of Washington) ===
Hi ;) I am a first year MA/PhD student in the Department of Communication at University of Washington. My graduate advisor is Professor Benjamin Mako Hill. My research interest is focued on digital group dynamics, and I am deeply curious about questions like how online communities connect and influence each other, or when and why group polarization forms. I am glad to include both quantitive and qualitative methods in my research, and also looking forward to learning more social scientific methods to see whether they make effects in different areas or topics.
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I grew up in Nevada, did my undergrad (in English!) at BYU in Utah, and then worked as a practitioner of online collaboration. I worked as the product manager for a [https://www.lingotek.com/ collaborative translation company] in Utah, but decided that I really wanted to study how online collaboration worked. I did a Master's degree at Purdue, studying with [https://www.cla.purdue.edu/communication/directory/?p=Seungyoon_Lee Seungyoon Lee], and I'm now a PhD candidate at Northwestern, working with Aaron.
=== Floor Fiers (Northwestern University) ===


[[File:Small.FloorFiers.jpg|thumb|200px|Floor on their way back to the US in the midst of the pandemic]]
Most of my current research is focused around new online peer production communities - why people start new communities, what impact project founders have, and what early collaboration and communication structures are associated with productive communities. More broadly, I am interested in the social construction of understanding, knowledge, and opinion, and especially how automated systems (algorithms, bots, etc.) influence the way social cognition happens. More about my research stuff is at my [http://www.jeremydfoote.com academic homepage].


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Most of my spare time is spent with my family or with my [http://www.mormon.org church community] - my wife and I have four young kids, and so my hobbies include sweeping up cheerios, picking up Legos, and playing Chutes and Ladders.


Hi there! I am is a PhD Candidate in the [https://communication.northwestern.edu/programs/phd_media_technology_society Media, Technology and Society program ] at Northwestern Uni. Academically speaking, I am interested in the field of digital inequality, particularly as it relates to online labor markets and the gig economy. Outside academia, I love (cold water) swimming and rollerblading, and I find lots of energy in organizing two music & theater festivals in the Netherlands.
Originally from the Netherlands, I first came to the US attend the [https://www.uwc.org/ United World College ] (Montezuma, NM), after which I pursued a BA in Sociology from [https://www.stlawu.edu/ St. Lawrence University ] (Canton, NY). During the pandemic, I worked remotely from the University of Zurich's [https://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/research/divisions/internet-use-and-society/team.html Internet & Society division]. For more background, see [https://www.floorfiers.com my website].
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=== Ryan Funkhouser (Purdue University) ===
Hey! My name is Ryan Funkhouser, I'm a first year PhD student in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University, and I study conflict in communication across difference. In particular, I'm interested in using computational approaches to studying online communities and the ways in which they can foster discourse that reduces incivility and increases understanding across lines of ideological conflict.
Before studying at Purdue, I earned an interdisciplinary humanities MA at Trinity Western University in British Columbia where I studied rhetoric and communication. I also began a second masters, this time specifically in communication, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
I originally hail from the beautiful city of Bellingham in the PNW, a place which nurtured within me a love for mountains and long-distance trail running. While I am living a relatively mountain-less existence in West Lafayette, Indiana while at Purdue, I continue to find joy in running and finding the beauty in the midwest. When not running, you will likely me and my wife watching a good show or going for walks.
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=== Matt Gaughan (Northwestern University) ===
=== Emilia Gan (University of Washington) ===


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[[File:EGan.jpg|200px|thumb|Emilia G.]]


Howdy! I am a first year PhD student in the Technology and Social Behavior program at Northwestern University. I am interested in free and open source software projects and the social organization that shapes their production.  
I'm a first-year PhD student in the [https://www.cs.washington.edu/ Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering] at the University of Washington (Seattle). Currently, I am working on gender differences in the way kids use the  [https://scratch.mit.edu/ Scratch Online Community]. My main research interests are Computer Science Education and Educational Technology. I am especially interested in how people learn programming.  


Before graduate school, I worked as a software engineer. In my free time, I love going for jogs, reading, and watching movies.  
Before starting graduate school in CS, I earned an MS ([https://globalhealth.washington.edu/education-training/phd-pathobiology Pathobiology]) from UW. I initially started learning how to program with the thought of using these skills for analyzing large biological data sets, but I eventually realized everything I was doing was pointing me away from biology and towards computer science.  
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Before starting graduate school at UW, I homeschooled with my kids for over a decade, and before that I earned an MD from the [https://www.umassmed.edu/ University of Massachusetts Medical School] and a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from [https://dmse.mit.edu/ MIT].


=== Sohyeon Hwang (Northwestern University) ===
[[File:Sohyeonhwang.jpg|thumb|200px|Sohyeon and her dog-child, Tubby.]]
I'm Sohyeon (she/they), a fifth-year PhD student in the Media, Technology, and Society program at Northwestern University, advised by Aaron Shaw. I study organization, governance, and collaboration online. My research primarily investigates the implications and possibilities of how users interpret, enact, and shape the governance of large-scale digital technologies. In my dissertation work, I focus on how community governance practices (rules, norms, tools) matter for platform-level outcomes we care about e.g., pro-social engagement, online safety, information integrity (looking at platforms like Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, and Mastodon). I do both computational work and many interview studies. You can find more information at my [https://www.sohyeonhwang.com site].
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=== Dyuti Jha (Purdue university) ===
=== Wm Salt Hale (University of Washington) ===
[[File:DS(1).png|thumb|200px|Dyuti when she used to have time to go out.]]
[[File:Salt_Xmas.jpg|thumb|200px|Salt shedding the holiday cheer (2016)]]


Hi there! I am a second year PhD student at the Lamb School at Purdue. Dr Jeremy Foote is my advisor. My interests sit at the intersection of sociology, political science, and communication. My work has largely been qualitative in the past but I currently use a mix of experiments and interviews using computational methods to study organization, aggression, and violence (mostly of political nature) in online communities. I worked in the Indian nonprofit sector for five years before deciding to come back to academia. As I find my way around what other things interest me, you will see them here!
Growing up in Seattle during the early 90s offered many technological opportunities, most of which I took advantage of. As an avid GNU/Linux user for over 20 years, I have been exposed to numerous technology orientated communities on various levels.


Outside of work, I love playing my ukulele and singing, watching and analyzing trashy films from all over the world, and cooking.
During high school I entered the Running Start program, completing an Associate's degree in Computer Science from South Seattle College. After which I transfered to the University of Washington, pursuing the same major. It was not a fit, instead I developed a number of businesses, traveled, and spoke at various conferences, conventions, events, faires, and festivals.
You can find more on [https://sites.google.com/view/dyutijha my website].
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Upon returning to the University of Washington to complete my Batchelor's degree in Communication, I connected with [[Mako]] and was shown a world of academia previously unimagined. After another year of traveling, I have decided to return to the UW Department of Comm yet again and am just beginning to delve deeper into the intersection of Technology and Society in the MA/PhD program.


=== Charles Kiene (University of Washington) ===
I am extremely interested in: Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Culture; Hackers, Makers, and Breakers; and Computer-Mediated Communication using real-time synchronous systems. Along with numerous hobbies including: urban hiking (walking), dancing (folk, east coast swing, lindy, blues), windsports (windsurfing, kiteboarding, sailing), bicycling, boffering, cooking, driving, event planning, gaming, programming, public speaking, reading, robotics, skiing, and travel.


[[File:Ch2.jpg|thumb|200px|Charlie.]]
Up to date information and links to various profiles around the web can be found on ''my'' IndieWeb presence, [http://www.altsalt.net/ The Alt World of Salt].
 
I am currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. I am advised by Professor Benjamin Mako Hill. As part of my doctoral research, I study organizational behavior of volunteer-based groups that manage communities in computer-mediated, online settings, such as Discord servers, subreddits, and MMORPG guilds.  
 
Topics include:
 
* Massive influxes of newcomers
* Technological change and adaption
* Organizational culture and conflicts
* Emergence and evolution of rules
* Turnover and division of labor
 
I use interviewing and ethnographic research methods for inductive qualitative studies of the groups that manage online communities. I also use computational social science methods (programming and maintaining automated web crawling software in SQL databases; machine learning; statistical modeling) for collecting and analyzing data as part of both descriptive and deductive research studies of online communities.


Details at [[User:Healspersecond]]
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=== Haomin Lin (University of Washington) ===
=== Jim Maddock (Northwestern) ===
[[File:maddock_cheese_sandwhich.jpg|thumb|200px|Jim eats a cheese sandwich while riding a cow in the Swiss Alps]]


[[File:Hl23.jpg|thumb|200px|Haomin at the Kerry Park in Seattle (Credit to Yibin for this great recruting photo!)]]
I first became interested in HCI during my undergraduate degree at the University of Washington.  I earned a degree in Human Centered Design and Engineering, where I worked with Professor Kate Starbird to understand rumoring behavior in crisis situations.  I also studied Medieval European history.


I am an incoming MA/PhD student in the Communication Department at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. I will be co-advised by Professor Benjamin Mako Hill and Professor Wang Liao. My research interests revolve around uncovering the micro-to-macro linkage in the communication processes in the context of online communication. I am eager to find patterns in processes where micro-level group communications develop to trigger organizational communication behaviors, and finally result in macro-level changes in mass communication.
I am a second year PhD Student in the Computer Science and Communications departments at Northwestern University. I currently work with Darren Gergle and Aaron Shaw, studying collaboration and coordination dynamics within social computing systems, such as Wikipedia and Zooniverse.


Prior to joining CDSC, I obtained my M.S. degree from Georgia Tech and worked as a data scientist on generative language models. I look forward to applying computational methods properly to study questions related to communication processes. I am also interested in learning about qualitative methods to research people's exact thoughts on certain topics.
When I'm not working on research, I'm probably riding my bike or planning a backpacking trip. You can find more about my research at my [http://jmaddock.net/ website].


Aside from working and studying, I enjoy my free time through traveling, hiking, and snowboarding (Seattle is a great place for all of them!)
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=== Ellie Ross (University of Washington) ===


[[File:Elliew-butterfly.JPG|thumb|200px|Ellie at Turtle Bay.]]


I'm a first year MA/PhD student in the Communication Department at University of Washington, advised by Mako Hill. I have been formerly interested in cultural evolution in the digital age and have done work in the predictive validity of the GRE for PhD students entering the Communication discipline. I am currently researching hierarchical structures of peer production communities using a knowledge production lens.


Before entering grad school I spent my free time with friends, playing video games and watching old tv shows. Now, I spend most of my free time reading books for fun and to fill knowledge gaps. On the weekends, my partner and I try to do something that brings us great joy; usually something with water, nature, and/or with our cats.
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=== Emilia Gan (University of Washington) ===
=== Nathan TeBlunthuis (University of Washington) ===
[[File:NateHeadshot.jpg|thumb|200px|The most photogenic picture of Nate in existence. Thanks Sam Shorey!]]


[[File:EGan.jpg|200px|thumb|Emilia G.]]
I'm Nate!


I'm a PhD candidate in the [https://www.cs.washington.edu/ Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering] at the University of Washington (Seattle). My research has involved analyzing data from the [https://scratch.mit.edu/ Scratch programming platform] (Link: [https://mako.cc/academic/gan_hill_dasgupta-gender_feedback_sharing-CSCW18.pdf paper]) and from [https://codeday.org/ CodeDay]. I am interested in factors that promote longterm participation in coding by newcomers to programming.
These days I am a PhD candidate at the University of Washington. My research covers ecological analyses of online communication, lifecycles and governance in online communities, and the analysis of field experiments in online community platforms.  
 
Before starting graduate school in CS, I earned an MS ([https://globalhealth.washington.edu/education-training/phd-pathobiology Pathobiology]) from UW. I initially started learning how to program with the thought of using these skills for analyzing large biological data sets, but I eventually realized everything I was doing was pointing me away from biology and towards computer science.  


Before starting graduate school at UW, I homeschooled with my kids for over a decade, and before that I earned an MD from the [https://www.umassmed.edu/ University of Massachusetts Medical School] and a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from [https://dmse.mit.edu/ MIT].
Many people invoke "ecosystem" as metaphor to emphasize complexity and interdependence in communication systems like the Internet.  However, there is also a huge natural science called "ecology"  which successfully learns about biological ecosystems.  Organizational sociologists and communication scientists have already appropriated theories, models and methods from ecology to understand interdependence between human organizations like firms and social movements.  I draw both from these social science literatures and from bio-ecology to understand how environmental contexts and interdependence between online communities shapes their growth, survival and organizing processes. My master's thesis (with Mako and Aaron) applied this approach using topic models to study competition between online petitions.


[https://emilia.cloud/ Personal Website]
I grew up in Eastern Washington, where I worked in a glass Laboratory at [http://energyenvironment.pnnl.gov/staff/staff_info.asp?staff_num=669 PNNL] where I contributed to a number of material science papers. I went to college at [http://whitworth.edu Whitworth University] where  I received a double-B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2012.  As an undergrad I was part of a humble [https://www.whitworth.edu/academic/faculty/index.aspx?Username=kjones bioinformatics research group] and contributed to research in [http://hanj.cs.illinois.edu/pdf/sigmod11_tweninger.pdf structured search engines]. After this I worked at Microsoft for a couple of years where I did a number of small things mainly related to search suggestions for Bing multimedia. After this I briefly worked as a data science consultant in medical informatics.
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I care deeply about the free software and free culture movements. I've
=== Zarine Kharazian (University of Washington) ===
been using Linux for 10 years and I support the free software
community as a member of the free software foundation. I've been coding for 20 years and a Linux user 14 years. I also
contribute to [Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Groceryheist].


[[File:Zarine profile.png|thumb|200px|Zarine moderating a panel in 2021.]]
My main hobbies are skiing, rock climbing, guitar playing, listening to music, and cooking. I'm married to Amanda, a community organizer and student at UW medical school.


I am a PhD Student in Human-Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, co-advised by Kate Starbird and  Benjamin Mako Hill. My research focuses on how online communities govern and are governed as they navigate disinformation, cyber-enabled influence operations, and related online harms. I am interested in both top-down dynamics – that is, governance by platforms, governments, and international bodies – as well as bottom-up dynamics, the myriad ways online communities experiment with and enact models of self-governance.
In addition to the CDSC, I am also affiliated with the [https://www.cip.uw.edu/ Center for an Informed Public], where I conduct research on disinformation targeting election integrity and conflict situations.
In my free time, I play guitar in several Seattle bands.
You can also find me at [https://zarine.net/ zarine.net].
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== Affiliate Researchers ==
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=== Mad Price Ball (Open Humans Foundation) ===
[[File:Mad-portrait-photo-201910.jpg|200px|thumb|Mad eagerly tearing apart [https://twitter.com/madprime/status/979833858039271425 another terrible blockchain idea].]]


I am Executive Director of Open Humans Foundation and co-founder of [https://www.openhumans.org Open Humans]. My research involvement is more "meta" these days: I help others do it. With Open Humans, we try to enable a new approach for research in health and human subjects research, focusing on personal data. Our work is generally "open" and strives to enable peer production, enabling individuals to create and share tools for getting personal data, analyzing it, and potentially contributing it to aggregate projects (from patient groups to citizen scientists, as well as traditional academic studies). I'm also a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow (alum) and a member of the BoD of MyData Global.
=== Charles Kiene (University of Washington) ===


Open Humans was inspired by my dual histories in genomics research and free/open culture. My PhD was in biotech and postdoc work involved running George Church's Personal Genome Project, which invited people to donate genome & health data to science by making it public – where I learned a lot about personal data and human subjects research. I'm also familiar with free/open culture folks for well over a decade, contributing here and there; one of my favorite past projects was helping create an offline copy of Wikipedia for OLPC distributed in Peru & Uruguay (my role was creating the article list, mostly based on traffic & connectivity data).
[[File:CharlieK.jpg|thumb|200px|Charlie.]]
 
I live in San Diego, but online you can find me on [http://twitter.com/madprime @madprime on Twitter], in the [http://slackin.openhumans.org Open Humans slack group], and sometimes IRC (madprime) – or reach me by email (mad) at openhumans.org.
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I am a MA/PhD student in the Communication Department at the University of Washington. I currently employ qualitative methods like in-depth interviewing and participant observation in my research, but I am leaning into more quantitative techniques over the course of my PhD program.
=== Tilman Bayer ===
[[File:Tilman at Internet Archive 2018.jpg|thumb|170px|Tilman sitting in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive Internet Archive's] pews, piously contemplating the world's knowledge]]
I am a longtime Wikipedia contributor (as [[:w:User:HaeB|User:HaeB]]) and editor of the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter Wikimedia Research Newsletter], a monthly publication surveying and reviewing recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, which I co-founded in 2011 with my then-colleague Dario Taraborelli at the Wikimedia Foundation. I am also one of the two maintainers of the associated [https://twitter.com/wikiresearch @WikiResearch] Twitter feed. For the past several years, I have joined Mako, Aaron and others in presenting an annual [https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program/State_of_Wikimedia_Research_2017-2018 "State of Wikimedia Research"] overview at the Wikimania community conference, where I have also presented on other data and research topics such as the question  [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Which_parts_of_a_%28Wikipedia%29_article_are_actually_being_read_%28Wikimania_2018%29.pdf which parts of a Wikipedia article people actually read].  


My work as a data analyst on the Wikimedia Foundation's [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Product_Analytics&oldid=3173327 Product Analytics team] included controlled experiments and exploratory data analysis to support the development of new software features for Wikipedia readers and contributors, and the analysis of core readership metrics like pageviews. With the Foundation's web team, I drove the implementation of a new metric designed to better understand reader engagement, based on an instrumentation of time spent on page (dwell time). This became the subject of a [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Reading_time research project] with Nate TeBlunthuis and my then-colleague Olga Vasileva, with findings e.g. about differences in reading behavior between users in the Global South and the Global North.
From Reddit subcommunities to Discord servers to ''World of Warcraft'' guilds, my interests lie in the strategies of management and organization in online communities, especially when they experience massive change, like user influxes, platform shifts, new technologies, mergers, or an exodus of community members. I'm also interested in the technologies online communities use to organize, such as bots for automating redundant aspects of moderation work, communication applications and the role of voice calls, and other forms of end-user programming that allow online groups to govern and defend their digital boundaries.


My academic background is in pure mathematics, with degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of Bonn. I am based in San Francisco and can be reached via Gmail ("HaeBwiki") and as "HaeB" on IRC (Freenode).
Details at [[User:Healspersecond]]
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=== Regina Cheng (Apple) ===
[[File:Regina hime.JPG|thumb|200px|Regina with her new feline best friend, [https://www.instagram.com/hime_theprincesscat/ Hime].]]


I'm a PhD candidate in the Human-Centered Design and Engineering department at University of Washington, co-advised by Mako Hill and Jennifer Turns. I describe my research goal as to understand and support collaborative informal learning in online communities of creators. I am interested in studying how different types of collaborative activities (e.g. feedback exchange, collaborative sense-making) lead to different learning outcomes, and designing for more effective collaboration to facilitate learning. Right now I am especially interested in the domain of data science learning among non-technical population.
=== Sejal Khatri (University of Washington) ===


Outside research, I like cats, drawing (mostly fanart these days), reading, cooking, hiking, hapkidoing, and preaching about my mother tongue, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou_dialect Hangzhou dialect]  
[[File:Sejal_Khatri.jpg|thumb|200px|Sejal]]
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I am a second-year masters student in the Information School at the University of Washington, Seattle. I am specializing in User Experience Research and Design in the Information Management program at iSchool. I did my undergrad in Computer Science at SPPU in Pune, India, and then interned for Wikimedia Foundation as a UX Engineer. My current research interests revolve around online communities, peer-production, and open source software. When I'm not working, I participate in design jams and hackathons where I get the opportunity to turn curiosities and concerns into design interventions.  
=== Sayamindu Dasgupta (University of Washington) ===
 
[[File:Sayamindu.jpg|thumb|200px|Sayamindu, mildly perturbed.]]


After getting a PhD from MIT, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington's eScience Institute and was hosted by CDSC over 2017-2018. I then spent three and a half years as an assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science, UNC Chapel Hill, and I am currently an assistant professor the University of Washington's department of Human Centered Design and Engineering where I study, design, and build pathways that engage young people in learning with data and digital technologies. Our lab is called the [https://depts.washington.edu/ledlab/ Learning, Epistemology, and Design Lab (LED Lab)].
You can find more about my work on my [https://unmad.in homepage].
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=== Jaelle Fuchs (University of Zurich) ===


[[File:Jaelle newly in Chicago.jpg|thumb|200px|Jaelle during her first week in Chicago]]
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Hi! My name is Jaelle Fuchs. I am a PhD Student at [https://www.uzh.ch/en.html University of Zurich] at [https://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en.html Department for Media and Communication Research]. I am part of the Internet use and Society division, led my Eszter Hargittai. In my research I am interested in online participation and how it intersects with digital inequalities. Particularly, how digital inequalities can affect online participation at different levels and across platforms.
 
I studied Media and Communication with minors in both political science and philosophy of religion for my BA at the Universtiy of Zurich. For my MA I joined the Internet and Society Master’s program.
 
I am based in Switzerland and during my BA and MA I worked as a receptionist at a small hotel in the Swiss mountains, so if you ever need some travel tips for Switzerland feel free to reach out. If you want to know more about me, my research and how to get in touch here’s  [https://www.jaellefuchs.com my website].
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=== Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (Turing Institute) ===
[[File:BastianGreshakeTzovaras.jpg|200px|thumb|Bastian, being so old-timey that his beard has grown.]]
 
Despite having an academic background in biology/bioinformatics, I've been active in peer-produced citizen science since around 2011. I'm one of the co-founders of the crowdsourced, open data repository openSNP ([https://opensnp.org]), which collects personal genomics data sets from users of Direct-To-Consumer genetic testing companies to put them into the public domain. Since 2017 I'm also the Director of Research for Open Humans (https://www.openhumans.org), an ecosystem for participatory citizen science that aims to allow people to analyze and learn from their own personal data as well as given members the opportunity to share their data with (citizen science) research projects. Among other things we have piloted a JupyterHub-based approach to give people their own virtual machines that allow them to write, run and share data analysis notebooks without having to share any personal information (see [https://exploratory.openhumans.org]).
 
Since 2019 I'm a research fellow at the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity in Paris ([https://cri-paris.org/]), where I will study how the ideas of peer-production can be translated to facilitate co-created citizen science projects in which participants are fully involved in all stages of research, from start to finish. Lately a lot of focus there has been on how we can scale up the individualistic quantified self experiments people do to larger cohorts. I also teach students the basics of citizen science and self-tracking.
 
Last but not least I'm involved in community building and mentoring in bioinformatics and for open projects in general: I'm a board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation ([https://www.open-bio.org/]), have mentored for Mozilla's Open Leadership Cohorts, Outreachy & Google Summer of Code.
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== Affiliate Researchers ==
=== Andrés Monroy-Hernández (Snap Research) ===
=== Andrés Monroy-Hernández (Snap Research) ===
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You can find me at [http://twitter.com/andresmh @andresmh] or at [http://andresmh.com/ www.andresmh.com].
You can find me at [http://twitter.com/andresmh @andresmh] or at [http://andresmh.com/ www.andresmh.com].
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=== Jonathan T. Morgan (Crowdstrike) ===
=== Jonathan T. Morgan (Wikimedia Foundation) ===


[[File:Jtm_profile_pic.jpg|thumb|200px|Jonathan in his preferred horizontal orientation.]]
[[File:Jtm_profile_pic.jpg|thumb|200px|Jonathan in his preferred horizontal orientation.]]


I'm a UX researcher at CrowdStrike and an affiliate faculty member in the UW department of Human Centered Design & Engineering. Most of my research involves understanding the sociotechnical mechanisms through which people who use complex collaborative software systems coordinate their work across time and space. You can find out more about me and my work [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF) here] and [http://jtmorgan.net/ here].
I'm a design researcher at the Wikimedia Foundation and a lecturer in the UW department of Human Centered Design & Engineering. Most of my research involves understanding the sociotechnical mechanisms through which participants in Wikimedia projects coordinate their work across time and space. My goal is to do everything I can to foster fun & meaningful experiences for the millions of humans across the world who read, write, teach, research, remix, and hack Wikipedia. You can find out more about me and my work [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF) here] and [http://jtmorgan.net/ here].


I am a founding mentor for the [[Community_Data_Science_Workshops|Community Data Science Workshops]], and I also develop and teach UW courses on related topics, like [[Human_Centered_Data_Science|Human Centered Data Science]].  
I helped design and lead the [[Community_Data_Science_Workshops|Community Data Science Workshops]], and I have taught two Community Data-adjacent courses at UW: [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)|Data Science for UX Researchers]] and [[Human_Centered_Data_Science|Human Centered Data Science]].
 
I am a voracious and omnivorous reader, and a passionately amateurish musician. When I'm away from the keyboard, you can usually find me exploring the beaches and forests of Puget Sound with my wife and my dog, Ozymandias.


I am a voracious and omnivorous reader, and a passionately amateurish musician. When I'm away from the keyboard, you can usually find me exploring the beaches and forests of Puget Sound with my wife and my dog, [[w:Ozymandias|Ozymandias]].
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=== Nick Vincent (Simon Fraser) ===
My research focuses on studying the relationships between human-generated data and computing technologies to mitigate negative impacts of these technologies. I am especially interested in research that (1) makes people aware of the value of their data and (2) helps people leverage the value of their data. My work relates to concepts such as "data dignity", "data as labor", "data leverage", and "data dividends".
Here's my [https://www.nickmvincent.com website]!
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=== Morten Warncke-Wang (Wikimedia Foundation) ===
=== Morten Warncke-Wang (Wikimedia Foundation) ===
[[File:Warncke-Wang, Morten - Dec 2017.jpg|200px|thumb|Morten prior to growing a scientifically sound beard.]]
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I've participated as a mentor and instructor in some of the Community Data Science Workshops. Apart from these things, I also like reading (both books and magazines), watching movies, playing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_(sport) squash], and attempting to make music.
I've participated as a mentor and instructor in some of the Community Data Science Workshops. Apart from these things, I also like reading (both books and magazines), watching movies, playing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_(sport) squash], and attempting to make music.
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== Friends and Community Members ==
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=== Tilman Bayer ===
[[File:Tilman at Internet Archive 2018.jpg|thumb|170px|Tilman sitting in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive Internet Archive's] pews, piously contemplating the world's knowledge]]
I am a longtime Wikipedia contributor (as [[:w:User:HaeB|User:HaeB]]) and editor of the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter Wikimedia Research Newsletter], a monthly publication surveying and reviewing recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, which I co-founded in 2011 with my then-colleague Dario Taraborelli at the Wikimedia Foundation. I am also one of the two maintainers of the associated [https://twitter.com/wikiresearch @WikiResearch] Twitter feed. For the past several years, I have joined Mako, Aaron and others in presenting an annual [https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program/State_of_Wikimedia_Research_2017-2018 "State of Wikimedia Research"] overview at the Wikimania community conference, where I have also presented on other data and research topics such as the question  [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Which_parts_of_a_%28Wikipedia%29_article_are_actually_being_read_%28Wikimania_2018%29.pdf which parts of a Wikipedia article people actually read].
 
My work as a data analyst on the Wikimedia Foundation's [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Product_Analytics&oldid=3173327 Product Analytics team] included controlled experiments and exploratory data analysis to support the development of new software features for Wikipedia readers and contributors, and the analysis of core readership metrics like pageviews. With the Foundation's web team, I drove the implementation of a new metric designed to better understand reader engagement, based on an instrumentation of time spent on page (dwell time). This became the subject of a [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Reading_time research project] with Nate TeBlunthuis and my then-colleague Olga Vasileva, with findings e.g. about differences in reading behavior between users in the Global South and the Global North.
 
My academic background is in pure mathematics, with degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of Bonn. I am based in San Francisco and can be reached via Gmail ("HaeBwiki") and as "HaeB" on IRC (Freenode).
 


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== Friends and Community Members ==
=== Alice Ferrazzi ===
=== Alice Ferrazzi ===
[[File:107572.jpeg|thumb|180px|Alice Ferrazzi]]
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I'm the Gentoo Kernel Project Leader, mainly focused in kernel release automatization.  You can find me at [http://twitter.com/aliceinwire @aliceinwire] or at [http://aliceinwire.net/ www.aliceinwire.net]. My Gentoo profile is at [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Aliceinwire User:Aliceinwire]. I am on IRC (OFTC) as alicef_.
I'm the Gentoo Kernel Project Leader, mainly focused in kernel release automatization.  You can find me at [http://twitter.com/aliceinwire @aliceinwire] or at [http://aliceinwire.net/ www.aliceinwire.net]. My Gentoo profile is at [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Aliceinwire User:Aliceinwire]. I am on IRC (OFTC) as alicef_.


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=== Samuel Klein ===
=== Samuel Klein ===
[[File:Orienteering tunnels.jpg|thumb|180px|right|Samuel Klein on the right (with a surprise Aaron shaw on the left).]]
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I'm a wikimedian, urban spelunker, and founding member of MIT's [http://kfg.mit.edu Knowledge Futures Group]. One of my projects is the Innovation Information Initiative, a data collab for patent and prior art datasets.  
I'm a wikimedian, urban spelunker, and founding member of MIT's [http://kfg.mit.edu Knowledge Futures Group]. One of my projects is the Innovation Information Initiative, a data collab for patent and prior art datasets.  


Occasionally in IRC as _sj_.  [[User:Sj|Sj]] ([[User talk:Sj|talk]]) 15:54, 17 August 2019 (EDT)
Occasionally in IRC as _sj_.  [[User:Sj|Sj]] ([[User talk:Sj|talk]]) 15:54, 17 August 2019 (EDT)


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=== Abel Serrano Juste ===
=== Abel Serrano Juste ===


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Also, I like bikes, nature, hiking, traveling, and sharing my life with beautiful people.
Also, I like bikes, nature, hiking, traveling, and sharing my life with beautiful people.
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=== Kat Walsh (Creative Commons) ===
[[File:katwalsh_purple.jpg|thumb|200px|Kat Walsh, with freshly purpled hair]]
I'm a lawyer working in copyright, speech, policy, and nonprofit leadership around various Free and Open projects and communities, currently working with individual clients including Creative Commons. I got into open communities through volunteering for Wikimedia, first as an editor, then in community dispute resolution, and then as a board member for several years. I've also been on the board of the Free Software Foundation.
I enjoy collaborating with academic researchers on work in peer production communities and their copyright/"intellectual property", dispute resolution, governance, and legal policy issues. I am located just north of San Francisco, where I enjoy playing my bassoon, viola, and occasionally some other things in a delightfully weird collection of musical groups, and lifting heavy objects for no particular reason.
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=== Hong Qu ===
I'm a PhD candidate at the  [https://www.networkscienceinstitute.org Network Science Institute] in Northeastern University. I try to analyze and understand how social networks facilite collective action, proprogate beliefs, and influence public opinion. For my Masters degree, I studied HCI and NLP with Professor Marti Hearst at UC Berkeley's School of Information, and developed a passion for user-centered design.
Although I am working with a lot of graph data (and hairball visualizations), I really miss qualitative user research such as contextual inquiry and unstructured interviewers, and hope to conduct more mix methods studies as much as I can in the future.
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===Phoebe Ayers===
[[File:WikiCite_2018_DT_-_95.jpg|thumb|Me, asking you the big questions about epistemology and citations]]
I am your very unofficial librarian! You have official librarians at your respective institutions, but I am happy to be your unofficial one and help if I can. Also, I am a very long term [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Phoebe Wikimedian]. Also, I am a UW iSchool grad, but from a long time ago!
I'm currently the librarian for computer science, electrical engineering and math at MIT, where I also work with researchers on managing their research data (saving, storing and sharing it) and open access publication. I have been a Wikipedian since 2003, working on English Wikipedia but also other Wikimedia projects. I have also been involved in governance of the Wikimedia Foundation; I served on the Board of Trustees from 2010-2015 and am currently on the board of the Wikimedia Endowment. I have also had a long-time hand in running our annual conference Wikimania as well as lots of other events. I care a lot about [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite citations] and making sure that studies using Wikipedia specify what language version they are studying. Also, I once claimed to know [https://archive.org/details/HowWikipediaWorks How Wikipedia Works], which let's be honest, is a bit of a reach.
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== Alumni ==
== Alumni ==


{{note}} As some of these folks have moved on, some of these biographies are a bit of date!
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=== Stefania Druga ===
 
[[File:Stef2019.jpg|thumb|200px|Stef in Summer of 2019, [//anoxic.me/huli Fancy].]]
 
I'm a first-year Ph.D. student in the Information School at the University of Washington, co-advised by Jason Yip and Alexis Hiniker. I am the co-founder of Cognimates and HacKIDemia. My research focuses on how children interact with and make sense of the growing collection of “smart” inter-connected playthings in the world around them together with their parents. I am exploring how families, as they play with these new smart assistants and applications, develop new ways of thinking about intelligence, emotion, and social interaction. Based on these studies, I am designing new tools and activities to introduce families to machine learning and data science in a playful way.
 
Outside research, I like climbing, dogs, reading, dancing and learning new languages.
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=== Wm Salt Hale (University of Washington) ===
[[File:Salt_Xmas.jpg|thumb|200px|Salt shedding the holiday cheer (2016)]]
 
Growing up in Seattle during the early 90s offered many technological opportunities, most of which I took advantage of. As an avid GNU/Linux user for over 20 years, I have been exposed to numerous technology orientated communities on various levels.
 
During high school I entered the Running Start program, completing an Associate's degree in Computer Science from South Seattle College. After which I transfered to the University of Washington, pursuing the same major. It was not a fit, instead I developed a number of businesses, traveled, and spoke at various conferences, conventions, events, faires, and festivals.
 
Upon returning to the University of Washington to complete my Bachelor's degree in Communication, I connected with [[Mako]] and was shown a world of academia previously unimagined. After another year of traveling, I have decided to return to the UW Department of Comm yet again and am just beginning to delve deeper into the intersection of Technology and Society in the MA/PhD program.
 
I am extremely interested in: Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Culture; Hackers, Makers, and Breakers; and Computer-Mediated Communication using real-time synchronous systems. Along with numerous hobbies including: urban hiking (walking), dancing (folk, east coast swing, lindy, blues), windsports (windsurfing, kiteboarding, sailing), bicycling, boffering, cooking, driving, event planning, gaming, programming, public speaking, reading, robotics, skiing, and travel.
 
Up to date information and links to various profiles around the web can be found on ''my'' IndieWeb presence, [http://www.altsalt.net/ The Alt World of Salt].
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=== Sejal Khatri ===
 
[[File:Sejal_Khatri.jpg|thumb|200px|Sejal]]
 
I recently graduated from the Information School at the University of Washington, Seattle. My specialization was in User Experience Research and Design in the Information Management program at iSchool. I did my undergrad in Computer Science at SPPU in Pune, India, and then interned for Wikimedia Foundation as a UX Engineer. My current research interests revolve around online communities, peer-production, and open source software. When I'm not working, I participate in design jams and hackathons where I get the opportunity to turn curiosities and concerns into design interventions.
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=== Jim Maddock (Northwestern) ===
[[File:maddock_cheese_sandwhich.jpg|thumb|200px|Jim eats a cheese sandwich while riding a cow in the Swiss Alps]]
 
I'm a PhD Student in the Computer Science and Communications departments at Northwestern University. I currently work with Darren Gergle and Aaron Shaw, studying collaboration and coordination dynamics within social computing systems, such as Wikipedia and Zooniverse.  Throughout my tenure as a graduate student I've also interned at MSR India, Google, and Mozilla.
 
 
I first became interested in HCI during my undergraduate degree at the University of Washington.  I earned a degree in Human Centered Design and Engineering, where I worked with Professor Kate Starbird to understand rumoring behavior in crisis situations.  I also studied Medieval European history.
 
When I'm not working on research, I'm probably riding my bike or planning a backpacking trip.  You can find more about my research at my [http://jmaddock.net/ website].
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=== Sneha Narayan (Carleton College) ===
 
[[File:Snehaphoto.jpg|thumb|200px|Sneha hanging out by Lake Michigan]]
I'm an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at [https://www.carleton.edu/ Carleton College]. Before that, I did my PhD in the Technology and Social Behavior program at Northwestern University, advised by Aaron Shaw (whose bio you can find by scrolling up a couple of sections). I grew up in Bangalore, India, studied mathematics at Oberlin College, and received a masters degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University, Budapest.
 
I've spent many years living in housing co-ops, and volunteering on the boards of co-operative organizations. My involvement in the co-op movement led to my interest in learning more (and producing knowledge) about participatory, volunteer-run endeavors such as peer production projects and online collaboration communities. My research focuses on understanding how newcomers join and become embedded in volunteer-run organizations, and what kinds of technological interventions might affect their continued participation in these communities. For (slightly) more information about all this, you can check out my [http://www.snehanarayan.com/ homepage].
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== Undergraduate Research Assistants ==
=== Current Undergraduate Research Assistants ===
 
* Carolyn Zou, Northwestern University
* Aaron Phan, University of Washington
 
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* Marlene Alanis, Northwestern University
* Gabrielle Alava, Northwestern University
* Zach Arenson, University of Washington
* Lucy Bao, University of Washington
* Bella Brown, University of Washington
* Marianne Cano, Northwestern University
* Frank Chen, University of Washington
* Katie Chen, Northwestern University
* Paz Baum, Northwestern University
* Dylan Griffin, Northwestern University
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