Professor, Georgia Tech
Director, Tandem Lab
President, ACM SIGCHI
Chair, ACM SIG Governing Board
I am a Professor at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. I work on responsible and sustainable human-centered computing, investigating infrastructures of care, and how these leverage emerging technologies, including AI.
Pursuing community-engaged research, I foreground worker-centered perspectives and community wellbeing in contexts surrounding care. My work on planetary care bridges scholarship on sustainability and development in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). I have been awarded the NSF CAREER for my research, in addition to over a dozen awards and recognitions at premier HCI publication venues. I am grateful to have been recognized at Georgia Tech for research, teaching, and leadership impact.
Building community also shows up as a passion in my service roles. I have served as President of ACM SIGCHI since 2021 and Chair of the ACM SIG Governing Board since 2024. Due to my leadership of the SIG Governing Board, I have also been a member of ACM Council and the ACM Executive Committee since 2024. It has been a special honor to co-chair the inaugural ACM AI Leadership Summit.
I earned my Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, specializing in Human—Computer Interaction. I got my Master’s in Computer Science and Education from Stanford University, and Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Applied Math from UC Berkeley.
At Georgia Tech, I lead the Tandem Lab, where my students and I work in tandem with individuals, communities, and other stakeholders to inform the design and adoption of emerging technologies, now particularly AI, in varied resource-constrained contexts. Read our work. Tandem Lab alums have gone out to do great things, in addition to being faculty at prominent institutions—for example, at inspirit to continue the work we started on virtual reality and learning, and at MakerGhat towards fostering community knowledge networks in resource-constrained parts of Mumbai, India.