Bio: Zoe is a PhD student at the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Prior to her doctoral studies, Zoe worked as a legal assistant at a plaintiff's employment law firm and as a product manager at a tech startup. Zoe graduated summa cum laude from New York University in Sociology. In her spare time, you can find her running, hiking, and exploring the outdoors.
Research: Zoe's research explores how AI/ML systems may result in unanticipated dynamics, including harms, to people and society. To do so, she currently uses qualitative methods to understand the perspectives and experiences of impacted communities. In this research, Zoe also uses storytelling to influence the design of technical systems and the policies that surround its use. Zoe has conducted fieldwork in rural communities in the United States, worked on issues of homelessness in the bay area, and is currently working on a project that uses data-intensive methods to allocate humanitarian aid to people in Togo who are living in extreme poverty. Zoe's research has received funding from the SSRC Just Tech Covid-19 Rapid-Response Grant, UC Berkeley Algorithmic, Fairness, and Opacity Group, UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, and UC Berkeley Center for Technology, Society, and Policy.
Fields of Interest: Responsible AI, tech-policy, values and design
Recent Publications:
When Users Control the Algorithms: Values Expressed in Practices on Twitter
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW (2019)
A Sociocultural Explanation of Internet-Enabled Work in Rural Regions
