Students
It is my privilege to work with the rockin'-est, ass-kickin'-est students around. They can often be found squaring circles or proving P=NP. Operating from their secret underground lunar base, they are the scourge of super-villains the world over, and regularly save the planet from alien invasion. You haven't seen any alien invaders around, have you? See? They're that good. Don't mess with my students.
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Postdocs None currently |
Ph.D Students
Ainee Basir |
M.S. Students None currently |
Undergrads
Katelyn Kim |
My former students are equally inspiring:
PhD students, as chair:
- Madhu Reddy. "Time to Work Together: Temporality, Collaboration and Information Seeking." UCI, June 2003. (Madhu is now a Professor and Associate Dean right here at UCI.)
- Danyel Fisher. "Social and Temporal Structures in Everyday Collaboration." UCI, August 2004. (Danyel is now in start-up-land.)
- Jack Muramatsu. "Social Regulation of Online Multiplayer Games." UCI, November 2004.
- Jennifer Rode. "An Ethnographic Examination of the Relationship of Gender & End-User Programming." UCI, April 2008. (Jennifer is now a Professor at University College, London.)
- Johanna Brewer. "Urban Aesthetics: Reframing Mobility for Ubiquitous Computing." UCI, February 2009. (Johanna is now Director of Research at AnyKey and an Assistant Professor at Smith College.)
- Amanda Williams. "Mobilizing Practice: Engaging Space, Technology and Design from a Thai Metropolis." UCI, November 2009. (Amanda is now at Jabil Circuits, helping manufacturers with supply chain management, and co-running Fabule Fabrications, a design consultancy.)
- Eric Kabisch. "Lived and Imagined: Relating Information and Storytelling." UCI, January 2011. (Eric is now at Roblox.)
- Judy Chen. "From Interaction to Performance in Public Displays." UCI, September 2011. (Judy is now a UX Engineer at Google.)
- Silvia Lindtner. "Cultivating Creative China: Making and Remaking Cities, Citizens, Work and Innovation." UCI, August 2012. (Silvia is now a Professor at the University of Michigan.)
- Lilly Irani. "Designing Citizens in Transnational India." UCI, May 2013. (Lilly is now an Associate Professor of Communication at UC San Diego.)
- Marisa Cohn. "Lifetimes and Legacies: Temporalities of Sociotechnical Change in a Long-Lived System." UCI, October 2013. (Marisa is now an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen.)
- Christine Wolf. "Narrative Assembly: Technological Framing, Storytelling, and the Situating of 'Data Analytics' in Organizational Life." UCI, September 2017. (Chris is now a Member of Research Staff at IBM Almaden.)
- Noopur Raval. "Platform-Living: Theorizing Life, Work, and Ethical Living After the Gig Economy." UCI, August 2020. (Noopur is now an Assistant Professor at UCLA.)
- Leah Horgan. "Becoming Data-Driven: Managing Data, Resources, and Affect in the Smart City." UCI, January 2022. (Leah is now a Postdoctoral Scholar at Northeastern University and teaching at Olin College.)
- Marina Fedorova. "Through a Glass Darkly: Making Work Visible and Multiple Articulations of Game Development." UCI, March 2025.
PhD students, as committee member:
- David Durand. "Palimpsest: Change-Oriented Concurrency Control for the Support of Collaborative Applications." Boston University, April 1999.
- Wayne Lutters. "Supporting Reuse: IT and the Role of Archival Boundary Objects in Collaborative Problem Solving." UCI, August 2001. (Wayne is now at University of Maryland Baltimore County/NSF.)
- Cathy Blake. "Information Synthesis: A Mixed-Initiative Meta-Analytic Approach to Facilitate Knowledge Discovery from Scientific Text". UCI, November 2003.
- Charlotte Lee. "The Role of Boundary Negotiating Documentary Artifacts in the Collaborative Design of a Museum Exhibition." UCLA, December 2003.
- Louise Barkhuus. "The Context Gap: A Challenge for Context-Aware Computing." IT University, Copenhagen, December 2004.
- Cleidson de Souza. "On the Relationship between Software Dependencies and Coordination: Field Studies and Tool Support." UCI, June 2005.
- Giovanni Iachello. "Design by Proportionality: Predicting and Increasing the Acceptance of Ubiquitous Computing Applications." Georgia Institute of Technology, March 2006.
- Anita Sarma. "Palantir: Enhancing Configuration Management Systems with Workspace Awareness to Detect and Resolve Emerging Conflicts." UCI, December 2007.
- Lena Mamykina. Designing Ubiquitous Computing for Reflection and Learning. Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.
- Shirley Gaw. Ideals and Reality: Adopting Secure Technologies and Developing Secure Habits to Prevent Message Disclosure. Princeton University, 2009.
- Arianna Bassoli. Living the Urban Experience: Implications for the Design of Everyday Computational Technologies. London School of Economics (external examiner), 2009.
- Xianghua Ding. Performance through Social Context Displays. UC Irvine, 2010.
- Sam Kinsley. Practising Tomorrows? Ubiquitous Computing and the Politics of Anticipation. School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol (external examiner), 2010.
- Anthea Nicholls. The Social Life of the Computer in Ramingining. School of Education, Charles Darwin University (external examiner), 2010.
- Ann Morrison. Situated Play in Open-Ended Interactive Art Environments. University of Queensland (external examiner), 2010.
- David Nguyen. Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Tracking and Recording Technologies in Everyday Life. UC Irvine, 2011.
- Christopher Le Dantec. Community Resource Messenger: A Mobile System and Design Exploration in Support of the Urban Homeless. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011.
- Emily Troshynski. Surveillance Technology and the Transformation of Criminal Justice: Monitoring Sex Offenders with GPS Technology. UC Irvine (Department of Criminology, Law, and Society), 2011.
- Joel Ross. Assessing Understanding of Complex Causal Networks Using an Interactive Game. UC Irvine, 2012.
- Jordan Kramer. Mobile Berlin: Social Media and the New Europe. UC Irvine (Department of Anthropology), 2012.
- Amelia Acker. 2014. Born-Networked Records: A History of the Short Message Service Format. UC Los Angeles (Information Studies).
- Jed Brubaker. 2015. Death, Identity, and the Social Network. UC Irvine.
- Pedro Ferreira. 2015. Play as Freedom: Implications for ICT4D. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (committee/external examiner).
- Selina Ellis Gray. 2015. Remains in the Network: Reconsidering Thanatosensitive Design in Loss. Lancaster University (external examiner).
- Ellie Harmon. 2015. Computing as Context: Experiences of (Dis-)Connection Beyond the Moment of (Non-)Use. UC Irvine.
- Jane Turner. 2016. Beyond Game Worlds: Story-ing Storied Space and the Hope-Ful Endeavour. Queensland University of Technology (external examiner).
- Mareike Gloss. 2016. Technology Encounters: Exploring the Essence of Ordinary Computing. Upsalla University, Sweden (opponent).
- Lauren Britton. 2017. Manifesting the Cyborg via Techno-Body Modification: From Human Computer Interaction to Integration. School of Information Science and Technology, Syracuse University.
- Matt Knutson. 2019. Frame-Perfect: Temporalities in Competitive Gaming. UC Irvine (Visual Studies).
- Dustin Hara. 2019. Networks of Detroit. Department of Information Studies, UC Los Angeles.
- Jennyfer Taylor. 2020. Ngana Wubulku Junkurr-jiku Balkaway-ka: The Intergeneration Co-Design of a Tangible Technology to Foster Active Use of the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal Language. Queensland University of Technology.
- Becky Kazansky, 2021. What harms may come? Exploring the anticipatory dimensions of surveillance resistance in an age of datafication. Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam.
- Samantha McDonald. 2021. Constituent Communication in Representative Democracy: Testing Digital Platforms for Deliberation in the U.S. Congress. UC Irvine.
- Farah Qureshi, 2021. Financial Inclusion, Fintech Exclusion, and National Development in Kenya. UC Irvine (Anthropology).
- Kathryn Brewster, 2023. Surviving Online: Histories and afterlives of queer networked computing at the onset of AIDS in the United States (1980-1990). UC Irvine.
- Isha Bhallamudi. 2024 . It’s Always Been Women’s Work: Tracing Gender, Technology, and Work in India Through an Account of AI-Mediated Beauty Work. UC Irvine (Sociology).
- Nika Nour. 2025. Deepfake Deception: Examining the Effects on False Memory Formation, Digital Media Discernment, and Generation Z.
MS students, as primary advisor:
- Johan Byttner, "The Visual Virtual Machine: A study of runtime visualization of Java programs." Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), February 2002.
- Jon Froehlich, "Unifying Artifacts and Activities in a Visual Tool for Distributed Software Development Teams." UCI, June 2004. (Jon is now at the University of Washington.)
- Carolina Johansson, "Incorporating Social Navigation into a Usable Security System." Uppsala University (Sweden), June 2006.
- Paul DiGioia, "Security CoPilot: Visualizations for usable security" UCI, June 2007.
- Shadi Shariat, "Project Grow: An Attempt to Address the Problem of Food Insecurity within Urban Communities by Employing an Artistic, Activist, and Technical Framework." UCI (Information and Computer Sciences/Arts Computation Engineering), October 2007.
- Ken Cameron, "Playing the City: A Critical Practice for Situated Urban Art and Technology." UCI, September 2013. (Ken is now teaching at ArtCenter College of Design)
- Hillary Abraham, 2020. Examining the Role of Autonomy in Independent Work Practices. UC Irvine.
- Nneka Udeagbala, 2022. Whose Story is Told When the Corporation Speaks? An Investigation into the Benefits of Participatory Data Narration. UC Irvine.
MS students, as committee member:
- Eric Conrad (2005).
- Margaret Watson (2005).
- Cina Hazegh (2006).
- Eric Kabisch (2006).
- Greg Elliott (2007).
- Shan Jiang (2007).
- Bruno Nadeau (2008).
- Sean Voisen (2010).
Otherwise as examiner or advisor:
- Martin Svensson, "Designing, Defining, and Evaluating Social Navigation". Stockholm University, February 2002.
- Giulio Jaccuci, "Interaction as Performance: Cases of Configuring Physical Interfaces in Mixed Media." University of Oulu, December 2004.
- Gabrielle Kunau, "Facilitating computer-supported cooperative work with socio-technical self-descriptions." University of Dortmund, 2006.
- Minna Rasenen, "Islands of Connectivity", Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, January 2007.
- Ylva Ferneaus, "Let's Create a Digital Patchwork." Stockholm University, March 2007.
- Jennyfer Taylor. 2020. Ngana Wubulku Junkurr-jiku Balkaway-ka: The Intergeneration Co-Design of a Tangible Technology to Foster Active Use of the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal Language. Queensland University of Technology.
- Becky Kazansky, 2021. What harms may come? Exploring the anticipatory dimensions of surveillance resistance in an age of datafication. Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam.
- Sebastián Lehuedé. 2021. Governing Data in Modernity/Coloniality: Astronomy Data in the Atacama Desert and the Struggle for Collective Autonomy. Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics. (Sebastián’s dissertation was subsequently granted the 2022 Best Dissertation Award from the Association of Internet Researchers.)
- Benedetta Catanzariti. 2023. Seeing Affect: Knowledge Infrastructures in Facial Expression Recognition Systems. Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh.
- Valeria Borsotti, 2024. Making Trouble: Reconfiguring Equity and Accessibility in Computer Science. Department of Computer Science (DIKU), Copenhagen University.
Previous visitors and researchers:
- Louise Barkhuus (visitor, 2003-04)
- Arianna Bassoli (visitor, 2006-07)
- Johan Byttner (visitor, 2002-03)
- Rogerio DePaula (postdoc, 2004-05)
- Susanne Heyman (visitor, 2007-08)
- Mads Ingstrup (visitor, 2005-06)
- Carolina Johansson (visitor, 2005-06)
- Akira Karasudani (visitor, 2004-05)
- Scott Lederer (visitor, 2004-05)
- Charlotte Lee (postdoc, 2005-08)
- Sophia Liu (research assistant, 2003-04)
- Naja Holten Møller (visitor, 2010)
- Irina Shklovski (postdoc, 2007-2009)
- Mads Soegaard (visitor, 2006)
- Janet Vertesi (postdoc 2009-2010)
- Lilly Nguyen (postdoc 2013-2015)
- Morgan Ames (postdoc 2013-2015)