Doctoral Students
Sacha Alanoca
sachaa@stanford.edu
Sacha Alanoca's CV
Sacha's interdisciplinary research lies at the frontier of AI, public policy, and social justice. Her work particularly focuses on examining the role of AI governance and regulation in mitigating rising inequalities and power asymmetries driven by algorithmic systems.
David Barnstone
dbarnsto@stanford.edu
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Barnstone studies the dynamics of media use in families with young children. He is particularly interested in understanding the influence of media exposure during infancy on child development and parental wellbeing.
Rachel Bergmann
rachberg@stanford.edu
Rachel Bergmann
Bergmann uses interpretive and archival methods to deeply and critically contextualize contemporary information technologies. Her research interests include histories of computing, feminist science and technology studies, and the cultural politics of AI and algorithmic systems.
Kayla Brown
kaylabr@stanford.edu
Kayla's CV
Brown is interested in the development of ethics and privacy norms in the technology sector and creator economy.
Yikun Chi
Chi is interested in leveraging media consumption and mobile sensing data and deep learning for the detection and prediction of mental well-being related issues.
Matthew DeButts
Matt is interested in how institutions get people to believe things, especially in China and the United States (media, politics, beliefs).
Cyan DeVeaux
cyanjd@stanford.edu
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DeVeaux is interested in augmented and virtual reality, human-computer interaction, and human-centered design.
Elizabeth Fetterolf
elizfett@stanford.edu
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Fetterolf is interested in how care work technologies shape and are shaped by the ongoing crisis of care in the US, particularly as this relates to workplace and intimate surveillance.
Thay Graciano
thayg@stanford.edu
Thay Graciano's CV
Graciano is interested in reducing political polarization and ensuring policy-making is guided by the wishes of common citizens through the implementation of Deliberative Democracy methods.
Tomás Guarna
tguarna@stanford.edu
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Guarna is interested in the new meanings of citizenship, trust, and legitimacy in the digital public sphere.
Bingxu Han
bingxu9@stanford.edu
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Bingxu explores in the intersection of communication, psychology, and health. She is interested in harnessing technology-mediated communication to facilitate (mental) health support and help individuals navigate challenging psychological scenarios.
Zhenchao Hu
zhenchao@stanford.edu
Zhenchao is interested in (intensive) longitudinal methods, social media uses and effects, interpersonal relationships, children and adolescents' identity development, sexuality, and well-being.
Young Jee Kim
kimyj@stanford.edu
Young Jee Kim's CV
Kim studies democratic processes for risk prevention in society through deliberative practices.
Marijn Mado
mnmado@stanford.edu
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Mado studies media literacy education. She uses ethnographic methods to explore the practices and epistemological assumptions that underlie the design and teaching of media literacy programs.
Michelle Ng
michelleng@stanford.edu
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Ng examines how individuals act upon dynamic risk communication to protect their well-being during extreme weather events. By leveraging intensive longitudinal methods and collaborating with government and community partners, she aims to develop risk communication theory while building resilience to extreme weather in practice.
Rinseo Park
rinseo@stanford.edu
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Park is interested in understanding how individual decision-making diverges from policy actors’ (e.g., political elites or scientific experts) views and the underlying cognitive processes.
Reagan Ross
Reagan is interested in the intersections of race, gender, and new media and technology. She is also interested in understanding how new technology might be used to disrupt anti-Black racism.
Aya Salim
ayasalim@stanford.edu
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Aya’s research explores how people process and respond to information in complex media environments. She is particularly interested in misinformation and how various forms of media shape attitudes and decision-making. She plans to employ computational and behavioral methods to explore the psychological processes in digital environments.
Monique Santoso
msant@stanford.edu
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Santoso is interested in the social, psychological, and behavioral implications of virtual reality, particularly in the context of climate and sustainability.
Serena Soh
Soh is interested in understanding how identity development unfolds in the digital context, particularly in terms of how digital interventions can be designed to promote positive identity development.
Noah Vinoya
avnoah@stanford.edu
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Vinoya is interested in how digital media can be leveraged as a tool to understand human behavior in a more natural context. Particularly, media habits can be captured to help unveil aspects of personality expression, well-being, and life outcomes.
Portia Wang
portiaw@stanford.edu
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Portia is interested in building up a theoretical framework towards understanding the role of personalized immersive technologies in supporting social and creative processes. She hopes to develop personalized tools for facilitating social interactions and the creative process in virtual and augmented reality and characterize how individuals and groups utilize these tools over time.
Sarah Wu
sarwu@stanford.edu
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Sarah’s research examines the psychological consequences of people’s engagement with digital technologies (e.g., AI, social media), particularly in educational and creative contexts.
Frankie Yaying Zhong
frankiez@stanford.edu
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Frankie’s research interests lie at the intersection of psychology and media studies. She is particularly interested in leveraging mobile media and sensing technologies to understand the dynamic processes of person–environment interactions in naturalistic settings.
Emily Zou
Zou is interested in how people come to know things online, which manifests in questions like: 1. How do online platforms and communities shape the content, process, and outcomes of political communication? and 2. How can we measure/interpret new norms and means of political engagement emerging out of online spaces?