Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com Novelist & podcast maker｜Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)｜Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social the best goddamn dancer in the american ballet academy // lauraolin.com
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Sean Munson @smunson.com Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, co-Director of UW ALACRITY Center. Personal informatics & design of collaborative health interventions. Mountains, nature, & casual photography. Views my own. smunson.com
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social PhD @ UW studying meaningful game experiences | prev. SWE @ Twitch. MIT '21, game credit on God of War: Ragnarok | https://ndevasia.github.io
Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social PhD-ing at UW @cip.uw.edu @hcde.uw.edu. Visual media in problematic info (mis/disinfo, hate, scams, propaganda) and digital safety in sociotechnical systems. ninalutz.github.io.
Joey Schafer @schafer.bsky.social UW-Seattle PhD candidate, studying online attention dynamics & creators/influencers @ HCDE/CIP, advised by @katestarbird.bsky.social . Former SETS Fellow @ Cornell Tech, working w/ @informor.bsky.social . UAW 4121 ASE Recording Secretary. He/Him
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social PhD Candidate @hcdeUW | Research in extreme weather livestreams, crisis comms, sensemaking, & platforms | #SkyWarn Spotter, dog mom, stress baker 🌪️🐶🧁
Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social Professor and Chair at @uw-hcde.bsky.social; Human-Computer Interaction researcher studying tech for health, education, & families; Academic mama. Views are my own.
Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me PhD student at the University of Washington in social computing + human-AI interaction @socialfutureslab.bsky.social. 🌐 kjfeng.me- G Gary Hsieh @garyhsieh.bsky.social Associate professor at UW HCDE. Human centered design | Behavior Change | Conversational Interfaces | Translational Science.
Melinda — Seattle Researcher & Startup Founder @melm.cc Misinfo & Journalism Researcher at UW HCDE, Center for an Informed Public (advised by @katestarbird.bsky.social)
Full Stack Dev & VC Backed Founder @ Proxi Maps
Ex-Texan, Mom, Swiftie. Always up for a project and a team sport.
melm.cc
samuel @smlso.bsky.social [taking a break from] phd student in hcde at university of washington
he/him
samuelso.net
joice tang @joicetang.bsky.social phd student @ uw hcde, recording secretary @ uaw 4121 // community-based research, higher ed labor, critical ed tech
she/they // joicetang.com
Zarine Kharazian @zarine.net phd candidate @cip.uw.edu, @communitydata.science, & @hcde.uw.edu. I study how to govern public knowledge institutions under attack.
zarine.net
Meghna Gupta @meghnagupta.bsky.social PhD student at UW HCDE | Prev: Research Fellow at MSR India
I think about care, digital safety, and labor in deeply intimate relationships.
https://gupta-meghna64.github.io
priya dhawka @priyadhawka.bsky.social PhD student (she/they) at UW HCDE, working on critical data vis and the politics of open data/vis.
dhawkap.github.io
Emily Tseng @emtseng.bsky.social Postdoc at MSR, soon a prof at UW HCDE, got my PhD at Cornell IS. I think about power, privacy, and participation in HCI, security and AI.
mina :) @minathebot.bsky.social real life bot! phd student at hcde uw researching individual and community responses to institutional data and measurement (currently: grades, next: credit scores) 🇵🇸🫶🏽 she/her
Donghoon Shin @donghoon.bsky.social 🇰🇷 HCI PhD student at UW HCDE & Research Intern at Microsoft Research
Researching AI for translational science and design | Prev: Google Research, Adobe Research, Naver AI | Seoul National University alum
https://donghoon.io
Prosocial Computing Group @prosocialcomputing.bsky.social Prosocial computing group at the University of Washington studies, designs, and builds technologies that foster and support positive and prosocial behaviors – to benefit individuals and society as a whole (prosocialcomputing.com)
Neilly Tan @neillytan.com phd candidate @ uw hcde ✎ critical data, design systems, privacy, power
↳ pronounced “nee-lee” • she/her ⚢🏳️🌈 • neillytan.com ✧
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