Group: Past Scholars

Wesley Hanwen Deng

Research Focus/Background: My research focuses on facilitating conversations and collective actions between varied critical stakeholders in Machine Learning (ML) practice. How might we get more diverse stakeholders meaningfully involved in the design and development of ML systems that impact their life? To answer this question, I intend to build frameworks and systems to enable innovative, …

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Anh Le

Anh Le

Research Focus/Background: My main research focus examines how first generation immigrant families leverage their knowledge of the online search process and language skills to find important household information with the focus on the collaborative relationship of children and adults in multi generational household units. Before returning to graduate school, I worked in a health care …

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Calvin Liang

Research Focus/Background:  Queer health technologies — how can design and technology support (or not support) LGBTQIA2S+ people with their health needs? My dissertation is centered around designing online sex education resources with and for transgender and gender-expansive youth. Problem/goals to address as part of CERES:  How can we account for and/or challenge varying levels of the …

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Luisa Fassi

Research Focus/Background: Disentangling the link between social media/technology use and different mental health conditions occurring during youth. Problem/goals to address as part of CERES: Explore with different methodological approaches (e.g., quantitative and qualitative) when, for whom, and under which circumstances digital technologies bring benefits or amplify risks. Location of Research Projects: Cambridge, United Kingdom and …

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Sakshi Ghai

Research Focus/Background: My research focuses on understanding the cognitive and social effects of digital technologies, specifically in the context of the Global South. My aim is to advance research on culturally diverse populations that remain underrepresented in social and behavioral sciences. Problem/goals to address as part of CERES: I hope to contribute to the theme …

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Akeiylah DeWitt

Research Focus/Background: Mobile health technologies (apps, texting programs, mobile-optimized websites, etc.), early childhood health promotion, the role of health disparities and health equity in technology design Problem/goals to address as part of CERES: I look forward to collaborating with other scholars in the CERES network, specifically to understand the ecosystem of factors that are relevant …

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Lea Nobbe

Research Focus/Background: My particular focus during my PhD is “distributed learning”. I am interested in its effects, promotion, and assessment in students as well as children. Problem/goals to address as part of CERES: While digital learning environments offer many opportunities, they can demand self-regulatory abilities children do not (yet) possess. As part of CERES, our …

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Aymee Alvarez Rivero

Research Focus/Background: My research has typically focused on the neural basis of numerical cognition and math abilities. More recently, I have expanded my research interests to lange and reading abilities. I am currently working on a project to investigate compensatory neural pathways for reading that are developed by children who have typical reading skills, despite …

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Frank Otieno Odhiambo

Research Focus/Background: My research looks at the role of technology in improving education, mental health and well being outcomes for learners with disabilities in low income countries. Specifically, it looks at the role of curriculum materials and motivational messages, delivered through an audio/speech enabled mobile application, on the motivation of special needs learners to stay …

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Arpita Bhattacharya

Research Focus/Background: designing to support health, mental health in education. Problem/goals to address as part of CERES: community driven health efforts, potentially learn about and incorporate public health and policy into mental health & HCI work, learn grant writing  Location of Research Projects: UC Irvine, California, USA When Not Working: listening to music, painting, walking  …

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