Current Students

Jake Chanenson
PhD Student
Jake is working to understand the privacy implications of educational technologies on school children. Browse Jake’s personal website here.

Thomas Chang
Undergraduate
Thomas is assisting with our flood reporting app.

Oscar Chen
Undergraduate
Oscar is assisting with our content moderation work on generative AI.

Lan Gao
PhD Student
Lan is working on understanding content moderation rules around generative AI.

Luis Heysen
Undergraduate
Luis is assisting with a dark patterns literature review.

Mandy Jiang
Undergraduate
Mandy is assisting with the EdTech tools proejcts.

Bonnie Ko
Undergraduate
Bonnie is assisting with our flood reporting app.

Rachel Lee
Masters
Rachel is assisting with our content moderation work on generative AI.

Kanchan Naik
Undergraduate
Kanchan is leading the development of our flood reporting app. Browse her LinkedIn profile here.

Navaneenth Rajan
Undergraduate NYU
Navaneeth is assisting with our EdTech tools project.

John Rugemalila
Undergraduate
John is assisting with our flood reporting app.

Brennan Schaffner
PhD Student
Brennan is working on understanding misleading online content such as dark patterns. Browse Brennan’s personal website here.

Quinn Thompson
Masters
Quinn is assisting with our EdTech projects.

Madison Vanderbilt
Undergraduate
Madison is assisting on our urban climate change project. Browse Madison’s Github profile here.

Kelly Wagman
PhD Student
Kelly is working on understanding how to use AI for science to address urban climate change and the future of work. Browse Kelly’s personal website here.
Collaborators


Tamara Clegg
Associate Prof

Nick Feamster
Prof

Kelsey Fulton
PhD Student

Danny Huang
Assistant Prof

Megan Huisingh-scheetz
Assistant Prof
Megan is an assistant professor at UChicago Medicine, specializing in geriatrics.

Louise Hawkely
Principal Research Scientist
Louise is a principal research scientist at NORC, at UChicago.

Junchen Jiang
Assistant Prof

Priya Kumar
PhD Student

Michelle Mazurek
Associate Prof

Pardis Emami Naeini
Postdoctoral Researcher

Paul Schmitt
Research Scholar

Brandon Sloane
PhD Student
Brandon is a PhD student at NYU and also works at Bank of America.

Ron Thompson
PhD Student
Ron is a PhD student at Tufts University.

Jessica Vitak
Associate Prof

Daniel Votipka
Assistant Prof
Daniel is an assistant professor at Tufts University.

Blase Ur
Associate Prof
Blase is an associate professor in Computer Science at UChicago who runs SUPERgroup.

Xu Zhang
PhD Student
Past Students (AIR lab and student collaborators)

Tara Aggarwal
Undergraduate

Chimaobi Amanchukwu
Undergraduate
Chimaobi worked on helping to understand the privacy implications of educational technologies on school children.

Michelle Aninye
PhD Student

Shriya Bansal
Undergraduate
Shriya analyzed commonly used apps in the Google Play store for helping children learn about online privacy and security.


Shayona Basu
Undergraduate
Shayona assisted with our EdTech tools project.

Archie Brohn
Undergraduate

Maia Boyd
Undergraduate
Maia worked in SUPERgroup at UChicago.

Regina Catipon
Masters

Liv Campili
Undergraduate
Liv assisted with our Netflix project.

Oishee Chakrabarti
Undergraduate
Oishee helped with our misinformation projects.

Jason Chee
Undergraduate
Jason assisted with our K-12 inspector EdTech project.

Michael Cheng
Undergraduate
Michael assisted with our content moderation project.

Ava Cohen
High Schooler
Ava assisted with our Netflix project.

Evan Chorleton
Undergraduate
Evan assisted with our content moderation project.

Walker Cook

Andre Dang
Undergraduate
Andre assisted with the K12 Inspector EdTech project.

Katherine Dumais
Masters
Katherine assisted with our EdTech tools project.

Agnieszka Dutkowska-Żuk
PhD Student
Agnieszka was a PhD student at the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom.

Solomon Dworkin
Masters
Solomon worked on the Connecting Contexts project.

Kevin Feng
PhD Student
Kevin worked on understanding how users process misinformation on WhatsApp while he was at Princeton University. He is an PhD student at the University of Washington.

Nick Gondek
Masters

Lily Hackworth
Undergraduate

Austin Hounsel
PhD Student
Austin was a PhD student in Computer Science at Princeton University who worked on understanding user perceptions of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).

Lucy Li
Undergraduate

Mirror Li
UX Researcher
Mirror is a UX researcher and recently graduated with masters in social sciences from UChicago. She is assisting with qualitative analysis on the WhatsApp misinformation project.

Neha Lingareddy
Undergraduate

Catherine Lu
Undergraduate
Catherine assisted with our Connecting Contexts project.

Chirag Mahapatra
Graduate
Chirag assisted with our dark patterns project.

Arunesh Mathur
PhD Student
Arunesh Mathur is the first graduated PhD student from the former version of AIR lab, who worked on dark patterns and manipulative user interfaces. He worked in the Princeton HCI lab and graduated in 2020. He currently works at the Competitions and Market Authority in the United Kingdom.

Jacqueline Mei
Undergraduate
Jacqueline worked on our content moderation project.

Natasha Messier
Undergraduate
Natasha assisted with our Netflix project.

Soyoon Moon
Undergraduate
Soyoon assisted with a dark patterns experiment. Browse her personal website here.

Amy Morrill
Undergraduate
Amy worked to understand the privacy implications of educational technologies used in schools.

Vallary Muhalia
Undergraduate
Val worked to help older adults with voice-assistant based wellness interventions.

Fiona O'Connell
Undergraduate

Riley Osborn
Undergraduate
Riley worked on our misinformation projects.

Riya Sahni
Undergraduate
Riya helped with our Netflix project.

Ishaan Singh
Undergraduate
Ishaan helped with our EdTech tools project.


Shai Slotky
Masters

Kevin Song
Undergraduate
Kevin worked on understanding how users process misinformation on WhatsApp. Find Kevin on LinkedIn.

Antonia Stefanescu
Independent Researcher
UChicago alum Antonia assisted on the user agency and technology use project.

Jamar Sullivan
Undergraduate
Jamar worked in SUPERgroup at UChicago.


Zoe Torok
Undergraduate
Zoe assisted with our SPE4K project.

Yaretzi Ulloa
Undergraduate Yale
Yaretzi assisted with our Netflix project and a dark patterns experiment.

Antoine Vignon
Undergraduate
Antoine was an undergraduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park. He worked on the Connecting Contexts project.

Ethan Walderman
Undergraduate
Ethan worked with Blase Ur and I in SUPERgroup.

Elaine Wan
Undergraduate
Elaine worked on the Connecting Contexts project.

Grace Wang
Undergraduate
Grace worked on the content moderation project for our Data and Democracy grant.

Past Students (Pre-AIR Lab)
Princeton HCI Lab at Princeton University
Brahmnoor Singh Chawla, CS Undergraduate
Madeleine Cheyette, CS Undergraduate
Ben Cohen, CS Undergraduate
Agnieszka Dutkowska-Żuk, Independent Researcher
Waraqul Islam, CS Undergraduate
Olivia Johnston, CS Undergraduate
Mihika Kapoor, CS Undergraduate
Robert Liu, CS Undergraduate
Ylana Lopez, research assistant
Mark Martinez, CS Undergraduate
Theodor Marcu, CS Undergraduate
Fleming Peck, CS Undergraduate
Jake Reichel, CS Undergraduate
Michael Swart, CS Undergraduate
Andre Xiong, CS Undergraduate
Jonathan Yang, CS Undergraduate
Jonathan Zong, CS Undergraduate
NetCHI Lab at University of Maryland, College Park
Victoria Chang, Masters in Human Computer Interaction
Pramod Chundury, Masters in Human Computer Interaction
Utkarsha Devkar, Masters in Information Management
Josefine Engel, Masters in Information Management
Javi Garcia, CS Undergraduate
Shalmali Naik, Masters in Human Computer Interaction
Lisa Rogers, Masters in Information Management
Julie Romanosky, Mech Eng Undergraduate
Bondili Rohan Singh, Masters in Human Computer Interaction
Brahm Persaud, Masters in Human Computer Interaction
Brent Schlotfeldt, CS Undergraduate
Katharine Shepard, Masters in Information Management
Sonam Sobti, Masters in Information Management
David Zhu, CS Undergraduate
Georgia Institute of Technology
Adam Allred, Ryan Cino, Mary Gezo, and Jared Salzmann CS Undergraduate Team
Andrew Baird, CS Undergraduate
Eric Bolten, Michael Orr, Joshua Slaughter, and Teddy Stotis, CS Undergraduate Team
Michael Dandy, CS Undergraduate
David Haslem, CS Undergraduate
Zuiena Kabir, Masters in Human Computer Interaction
Alicia Nachman, Masters in Human Computer Interaction
Ugochi Ofoha, CS Undergraduate
Shashank Raval, Masters in Computer Science
Rebecca Rouse, Ph.D. Digital Media
Hyewon Suh, Masters in Computer Science
Boris du Souza, Masters in Computer Science
Bethany Sumner, CS Undergraduate
Ja-Young Sung, Masters in Human Computer Interaction
David Tran, Masters in Computer Science
Jin Yao, CS Undergraduate
Past Collaborators (2013 onwards)

Gunes Acar
Postdoctoral Researcher

Elizabeth Bonsignore
Researcher

Sam Burnett
PhD Student

Enrico Calandro
Researcher

Matt Calder
PhD Student

Annie Edmundson
PhD Student

W. Keith Edwards
Prof

Michael Friedman
Undergraduate
Michael was an undergraduate student at Princeton University.

Arpit Gupta
PhD Student

Ethan Katz-Bassett
Prof

Hyojoon Kim
PhD Student

Mihir Kshirsagar
Clinic Lead

Frank Li
PhD Student

Eli Lucherini
PhD Student

Nathan Malkin
PhD Student

Jonathan Mayer
Assistant Prof

Arvind Narayanan
Prof
Arvind is a professor at Princeton University.

Brenna McNally
PhD Student

Sachit Muckaden
Student
Sachit was a student at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Laura Roberts
PhD Student

Margaret Roberts
Associate Prof

Brandon Stewart
Assistant Prof

Mega Subramaniam
Associate Prof

Srikanth Sundaresan
PhD Student

Philip Winter
Postdoctoral Researcher
Philip was a post-doc at Princeton University.

Susan Wyche
Associate Prof

Serena Zheng
Undergraduate