Participants
Workshop Participants
The CSST 2025 Summer Institute brings together 21 mentees, 7 mentors, and 3 organizers for an intensive week of learning and community building.
Organizers
Mentors
Naz Andalibi
Mentor
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Information
Joel Chan
Mentor
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College of Information Studies
Rosta Farzan
Mentor
Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information
Matt Germonprez
Mentor
Mutual of Omaha Distinguished Chair of Information Science & Technology, University of Nebraska Omaha
Oliver Haimson
Mentor
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Information
Katie Pine
Mentor
Associate Professor of Health Informatics, Arizona State University College of Health Solutions
Elizabeth Watkins
Mentor
Research Scientist in the Social Science of AI, Intel Labs
watkins.elizabethanne@gmail.com
Mentees
All Mentees
Dylan Thomas Doyle
Jingchao Fang
Kim Fernandes
Zihan Gao
Ifat Gazia
igazia@umass.edu
igazia@umass.edu
Andrew Hamann
Hsin-Ping Julia Hsu
Ji Eun (Jinny) Kim
Seolha Lee
Lan Li
Jiaying Liu
Renkai Ma
Tyler Musgrave
Sachita Nishal
Noopur Raval
Ari Schlesinger
Farhana Shahid
Hiba Siraj
Cella Sum
Neilly Tan
Hye Sun YunMentor Groups
Elizabeth Watkins's Group
- Cella Sum (CMU) - doctoral student
Research focus: technology, power, and resistance in labor contexts, with aims to empower workers through technology design and policy - Sachita Nishal (Northwestern) - doctoral student
Research focus: advances the development of sociotechnical systems that enable science journalists to report on novel, complex scientific information - Seolha Lee (UC Irvine) - doctoral student
Research focus: politics of technology development in government settings
Joel Chan's Group
- Hsin-Ping Julia Hsu (George Mason) - doctoral student
Research focus: how sociotechnical infrastructures—such as social platforms, peer networks, and generative AI (GenAI) tools—mediate people's access to support and services - Lan Li (UNC) - doctoral student
Research focus: how technologies shape and implicate how we find and conduct work - Neilly Tan (Washington) - doctoral student
Research focus: infrastructures of surveillance and managerial control in everyday environments
Katie Pine's Group
- Jiaying "Lizzy" Liu (UT Austin iSchool) - doctoral student
Research focus: how social, cultural, technological, and identity factors shape people's online health narratives and offline care-seeking experiences around mental health and well-being - Dylan Thomas Doyle (UC Boulder → Northwestern) - doctoral student → postdoc
Research focus: intersection of behavioral health, online platform design, and mental health technologies - Hiba Siraj (George Mason) - doctoral student
Research focus: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) that operate in high-stakes, time-critical settings
Matt Germonprez's Group
- Andrew Hamann (UC Irvine) - doctoral student
Research focus: downstream effects of data-intensive state policy on the municipal digital infrastructure - Farhana Shahid (Cornell) - doctoral student
Research focus: examines the cultural biases and systemic issues in content moderation systems, especially in non-Western contexts - Ji Eun (Jinny) Kim (Michigan) - doctoral student
Research focus: sociotechnical systems that promote online prosociality in a data-driven, scalable way
Naz Andalibi's Group
- Jingchao Fang (Chicago) - postdoc
Research focus: designing knowledge-based socio-technical systems, specifically in the context of online education - Noopur Raval (UCLA) - junior faculty
Research focus: gig economy platforms as a part of a larger socio-technical assemblage that redistributes life capacities among workers and consumers - Renkai Ma (Vanderbilt → U Cincinnati) - postdoc → junior faculty
Research focus: intersection among human-computer interaction (HCI), social computing, and online safety
Oliver Haimson's Group
- Ari Schlesinger (Georgia) - junior faculty
Research focus: investigates the ways social issues become encoded in technical ecosystems to promote socially responsible computing - Tyler Musgrave (Michigan → Wayne State) - doctoral student → junior faculty
Research focus: Through the lens of technomediated justice, I examine how digital systems mediate harm, repair, and power - Kim Fernandes (Toronto Info → Brown) - postdoc → junior faculty
Research focus: disability in Global South, who comes to count, under what circumstances, and how this impacts the life trajectories of the person whose experiences are made into data
Rosta Farzan's Group
- Hye Sun Yun (Northeastern) - doctoral student
Research focus: design and evaluation of sociotechnical systems by embedding computational technology in healthcare to improve access to medical research information - Ifat Gazia (UMass Amherst) - doctoral student
Research focus: intersection of digital infrastructures, platforms, and erasure - Zihan Gao (Wisconsin iSchool) - doctoral student
Research focus: design sociotechnical systems by reconceptualizing how technologies mediate human-place relationships through the lens of "localness"