People

So Yun Ahn
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Mike Ananny
Associate Professor
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]
Keywords: theories of the public, science & technology studies, journalism

Ash Baird
Doctoral Student

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[they/ them]

Keywords: queer information & futures, embodiment, STS

Ziyaad Bhorat
Country Lead: USA, South Africa (Responsible Computing Challenge) and Global AI Policy at Mozilla; Associate Director, Center for Generative AI (USC); Visiting Scholar, Dornsife Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life (STPL)

Keywords: automation, political theory, governance

Lei Cao
Doctoral Student

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[she/her]

Keywords: computational social science, social networks

Sarah Ciston
Doctoral Candidate
Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts

[she/they]

Keywords: intersectionality, artificial intelligence, creative coding

Alanna Coombes
Doctoral Student
Price School of Public Policy

Cale Epps
Doctoral Student
Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts
[he/him]
Keywords: precarious labor, media industries, cultural studies

Katalin Fehér

Associate Professor

University of Public Service - Department for Science Strategy

Nicholas P. Fernacz
Doctoral Student
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences - East Asian Languages and Cultures

Keywords: economic history, infrastructure, media theory

Molly Frizzell

Doctoral Candidate

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[she/her]

Keywords: reproductive technologies, bodies and borders, identity

Rohan Grover

Doctoral Candidate

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[he/him]

Keywords: political communication, digital activism, internet policy

Nisa Gurbiz
Doctoral Student
Price School of Public Policy and Management

Keywords: digital platforms, algorithmic management, gig economy

Meredith Hall

Society of Fellows in the Humanities

Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - Sociology

Keywords: color, intellectual property law and policy, creativity, technological innovation

Grace Huang
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: artificial intelligence, algorithmic surveillance, gig economy

Alfonso Hegde
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]

Keywords: infrastructure, digital activism, platform affordances

Simogne Hudson
PhD

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Keywords: sound technologies, telephones, prisons, law & policy

Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang

Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism; USC Center for AI in Society
Keywords: artificial intelligence, human-AI collaboration, future of work

Eugene Jang
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Kyooeun Jang
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Keywords: social networking platforms, platform and online content governance, trust and safety

Lee Kezar
Doctoral Candidate
Viterbi School of Engineering
[they/them]

Keywords: sign languages, computational linguistics,

natural language processing

Taner Kizilhan
Visiting Scholar
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: smart cities, digital citizenship, critical data studies

Maria Labourt

Doctoral Student

Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - Sociology

Keywords: nature, infrastructure, river

Fidelia Lam
Doctoral Candidate
Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts

Keywords: race & diaspora, geography, architectures, new media

Stella Kexin Lin
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[she/her]

Keywords: infrastructure, material flows, geopolitics of media

Jody Liu

Doctoral Student

Price School of Public Policy

[she/her]

Keywords: LGBTQ+, policing, urban planning

Alphoncina (Allie) Lyamuya
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Keywords: humanitarian innovation, border technologies, digital infrastructure

Colin Maclay
Research Professor
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]

Reema Moussa
J.D. Candidate

Gould School of Law

[she/her]

Keywords: law & policy, cybersecurity, algorithmic bias

Lisa Müller-Trede
Doctoral Candidate
Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts

Keywords: kinaesthetic intelligence, non-verbal communication, local + context-specific data practices

Pratik Nyaupane

Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[he/him]

Keywords: surveillance technologies, activism, Global South

Celeste Oon

Doctoral Student
School of Cinematic Arts

[she/her]

Keywords: social media, power and intimacy, information flows

Will Orr

Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Ali Rachel Pearl
Lecturer
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - English
[she/her]

Jef Pearlman
Professor & Director, IP & Technology Clinic
Gould School of Law
[he/him]
Keywords: technology, creativity, public interest law

Victor Manuel Garcia Perdomo
Full Professor
Universidad de La Sabana

Fulbright Visiting Scholar

USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: artificial intelligence, social media, journalism, politics, engagement

Pamela Perrimon
PhD

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Jennifer Petersen
Associate Professor & Director of STS Graduate Certificate Program
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Barath Raghavan
Assistant Professor
Viterbi School of Engineering

Jessica Ramos
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[she/her]

Keywords: surveillance studies, STS, race & technology

Diego Ramos Aguilera
Doctoral Student
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
[he/him]
Keywords: natural hazards, disaster resilience, sustainable energy

Peter Redfield
Professor
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - Anthropology

Jermaine Anthony Richards
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]

Alejandro (Alex) Alvarado Rojas
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]

Keywords: datafication, infrastructure, networks

Daniel Rosen
PhD
School of Cinematic Arts
[he/him]

Keywords: media studies, livestreaming, infrastructure

Cyrus Shahabi
Helen N. & Emmett H. Jones Professor of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering & Spatial Sciences
Vitberbi School of Engineering