People | Amyoli Internet Research Lab

Marshini Chetty

Associate Professor

Marshini (pronounced “Marsh”-“Knee”) Chetty is originally from South Africa. She is passionate about Human-Computer Interaction, the Internet, and red velvet cupcakes. You can find her bio and personal site here. Learn more about her personal journey here.

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.

Michael Cheng

Undergraduate

Michael is assisting with our content moderation project.

Ava Cohen

High Schooler

Ava is assisting with our Netflix project.

Lan Gao

PhD Student

Lan is working on various projects related to privacy and security and also has interests in misleading online content like dark patterns.

Katherine Dumais

Masters

Katherine is assisting with our EdTech tools project.

Kanchan Naik

Undergraduate

Kanchan is assisting with our Connecting Contexts project. Browse her LinkedIn profile here.

Catherine Lu

Undergraduate

Catherine is assisting with our Connecting Contexts project.

Chirag Mahapatra

Graduate

Chirag is assisting with our dark patterns project.

Jacqueline Mei

Undergraduate

Jacqueline is working on our content moderation project.

Natasha Messier

Undergraduate

Natasha is assisting with our Netflix project.

Soyoon Moon

Undergraduate

Soyoon is assisting with a dark patterns experiment. Browse her personal website here.

Navaneenth Rajan

Undergraduate NYU

Navaneeth is assisting with our EdTech tools project.

Brennan Schaffner

PhD Student

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

Jay Shen

Undergraduate

Jay is assisting on our content moderation project. Browse Jay’s website here.

Lihao (Leo) Sun

Undergraduate

Leo is helping with our EdTech tools project. Browse Leo’s website here.

Quinn Thompson

Undergraduate

Quinn is assisting with our community-oriented projects.

Yaretzi Ulloa

Rising Freshman Yale

Yaretzi is assisting with our Netflix project and a dark patterns experiment.

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.

Sam Xie

Undergraduate

Sam is assisting with our EdTech tools project. Browse his personal website here.

Collaborators

Noah Apthorpe

Assistant Prof

Noah is an assistant professor at Colgate University.

Tamara Clegg

Associate Prof

Tammy is an associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park with joint appointments at the Collge of Information Studies and the College of Education.

Nick Feamster

Prof

Nick is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at UChicago.

Kelsey Fulton

PhD Student

Kelsey is a PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Danny Huang

Assistant Prof

Danny is an assistant professor at New York University.

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

Junchen is an assistant professor in Computer Science at UChicago.

Priya Kumar

PhD Student

Priya is a PhD student at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Michelle Mazurek

Associate Prof

Michelle is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Pardis Emami Naeini

Postdoctoral Researcher

Pardis is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington.

Paul Schmitt

Research Scholar

Paul is a research scholar in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University.

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

Jessica is an associate professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Daniel Votipka

Assistant Prof

Daniel is an assistant professor at Tufts University.

Blase Ur

Assistant Prof

Blase is an assistant professor in Computer Science at UChicago who runs SUPERgroup – we work very closely with SUPERgroup and were formerly part of SUPERgroup.

Xu Zhang

PhD Student

Xu is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at UChicago.

Past Students (AIR lab and student collaborators)

Tara Aggarwal

Undergraduate

Tara helped on the Connecting Contexts project.

Chimaobi Amanchukwu

Undergraduate

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

Michelle Aninye

PhD Student

Michelle was co-advised by Blase Ur and I. She was a member of SUPERgroup.

Shriya Bansal

Undergraduate

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

Abigail Barnes

Undergraduate

Abby is working on our Connecting Contexts project. Find her on LinkedIn.

Shayona Basu

Undergraduate

Shayona is assisting with our EdTech tools project.

Archie Brohn

Undergraduate

Archie worked on understanding how users process misinformation on WhatsApp.

Maia Boyd

Undergraduate

Maia worked in SUPERgroup at UChicago.

Regina Catipon

Masters

Regina worked to understand misinformation on COVID-19.

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.

Evan Chorleton

Undergraduate

Evan assisted with our content moderation project.

Walker Cook

Walker assisted with the Connecting Contexts project.

Andre Dang

Undergraduate

Andre assisted with the K12 Inspector EdTech 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

Nick worked on understanding misinformation on Reddit.

Lily Hackworth

Undergraduate

Lily was an undergraduate student in SUPERgroup at UChicago.

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

Lucy studied children’s, parents, and teachers needs for educational resources for elementary school children to learn about online privacy and security. Find Lucy’s personal website here.

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

Neha worked on understanding how to inform users about certain subsets of dark patterns. Find Neha’s personal website here.

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.

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

Fiona worked as an undergraduate researcher on the Connecting Contexts project in the AIR lab.

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

Shai assisted with the Connecting Contexts project.

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.

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

Gunes was a post-doc at Princeton University.

Elizabeth Bonsignore

Researcher

Beth is a researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Sam Burnett

PhD Student

Sam was a PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Enrico Calandro

Researcher

Enrico is a researcher at ResearchICTAfrica.

Matt Calder

PhD Student

Matt Calder was a PhD student working with Ethan Katz-Bassett.

Annie Edmundson

PhD Student

Annie was a student at Princeton University.

W. Keith Edwards

Prof

Keith Edwards is a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Michael Friedman

Undergraduate

Michael was an undergraduate student at Princeton University.

Arpit Gupta

PhD Student

Arpit was a PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology and Princeton University.

Ethan Katz-Bassett

Prof

Ethan is a professor at Columbia University.

Hyojoon Kim

PhD Student

Joon was a PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Mihir Kshirsagar

Clinic Lead

Mihir is the clinic lead at the Center for Information and Technology Policy at Princeton University.

Frank Li

PhD Student

Frank was a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. He is now an assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Eli Lucherini

PhD Student

Eli is a PhD student at Princeton University.

Nathan Malkin

PhD Student

Nathan was a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jonathan Mayer

Assistant Prof

Jonathan is an assistant professor at Princeton University.

Arvind Narayanan

Prof

Arvind is a professor at Princeton University.

Brenna McNally

PhD Student

Brenna was a PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Sachit Muckaden

Student

Sachit was a student at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Laura Roberts

PhD Student

Laura was a PhD student at Princeton University.

Margaret Roberts

Associate Prof

Molly is an associate professor in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.

Brandon Stewart

Assistant Prof

Brandon is an assistant professor in Sociology at Princeton University.

Mega Subramaniam

Associate Prof

Mega is an associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Srikanth Sundaresan

PhD Student

Srikanth was a PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Philip Winter

Postdoctoral Researcher

Philip was a post-doc at Princeton University.

Susan Wyche

Associate Prof

Susan is an associate professor at Michigan State University.

Serena Zheng

Undergraduate

Serena was an undergraduate student at Princeton University.