Research Scientist at Sony AI
News Archive
August 27 2020
Two announcements: I will be working with Ethical AI at Google as a Student Research Fellow for the Fall 2020 term. And I have been honored by the CU Boulder Information Science Outstanding Research Award.August 19 2020
I gave a talk on How Computers See Gender at the Stanford HCI Group summer seminar series.April 24 2020
Excited to be working on the Ethical AI team at Google this summer!Dec 3 2019
Catch me at NeurIPS for the Queer in AI panel December 9th!Nov 21 2019
I was featured in several popular press articles discussing the ethics of facial analysis technology, including CNN, the Verge, and Quartz.Oct 10 2019
Check out my video interview with CU Boulder Today on gender in facial analysis technology.Sept 27 2019
I am honored to have received a Best Paper award from CSCW 2019 for our paper, How Computers See Gender: An Evaluation of Gender Classification in Commercial Facial Analysis and Image Labeling Services.October 13 2020
Extremely excited to announce that our CSCW 2020 paper, How We’ve Taught Algorithms to See Identity: Constructing Race and Gender in Image Databases for Facial Analysis., was awarded both a Best Paper Award and a Recognitions for Contribution to Diversity & Inclusion.August 27 2020
Two announcements: I will be working with Ethical AI at Google as a Student Research Fellow for the Fall 2020 term. And I have been honored by the CU Boulder Information Science Outstanding Research Award.August 19 2020
I gave a talk on How Computers See Gender at the Stanford HCI Group summer seminar series.April 24 2020
Excited to be working on the Ethical AI team at Google this summer!Dec 3 2019
Catch me at NeurIPS for the Queer in AI panel December 9th!Nov 21 2019
I was featured in several popular press articles discussing the ethics of facial analysis technology, including CNN, the Verge, and Quartz.Oct 10 2019
Check out my video interview with CU Boulder Today on gender in facial analysis technology.Sept 27 2019
I am honored to have received a Best Paper award from CSCW 2019 for our paper, How Computers See Gender: An Evaluation of Gender Classification in Commercial Facial Analysis and Image Labeling Services.July 28 2019
I was invited to give a talk at Facebook's Pride@Research Lunch and Learn series on "Gender Affirmation in Capital “D” Design: Research Methods & Design Approaches for Trans and/or Non-Binary Inclusion."June 17 2019
I was invited to speak at the Workshop on Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics in Computer Vision at CVPR 2019. My talk is titled: "Implications of Gendered Infrastructures in Computer Vision."May 17 2019
This summer I will be working as a UX Research Intern at Facebook on the Community Integrity team.May 13 2019
Check out the speculative design brief I created on facial analysis technology for Harvard's Privacy + Design project.Feb 9 2019
Me and my team won CU Boulder Law School's Interdisciplinary Tech Ethics Competition and a 10k scholarship from the Daniels Fund Ethics Initative!Nov 19 2018
Check out my feature on SparkVision's blog series, High Achieving Millenials," where I talk about my workplace values and the influence my upbringing has had on my career path.Nov 1 2018
I am honored to have received a Recognition of Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion for my work at CSCW 2018. This recognition was awarded to the top 5 papers (of a total of 61) which serve underrepresented and minorities.Oct 6 2018
I will be participating in the CSCW 2018 Workshop The Changing Contours of “Participation” in Data-driven, Algorithmic Ecosystems: Challenges, Tactics, and an Agenda. Read my position paper, Gender is not a Boolean: Towards Designing Algorithms to Understand Complex Human Identities.Aug 8 2018
My paper, Safe Spaces and Safe Places: Unpacking Technology-Mediated Experiences of Safety and Harm with Transgender People, has been accepted at CSCW 2018.May 15 2018
Read about my work on Automatic Gender Recognition in The Scientific American via The Conversation.April 15 2018
I am pleased to announce that I will officially be starting my PhD at University of Colorado Boulder's Information Science program in Fall 2018. I will be advised by Jed Brubaker and working in his Identity Lab.
April 5 2018
I am excited to announce that I have passed my Master's Thesis Defense titled, Exploring Transgender Individuals’ Experience of Safety with Technology. You can view the slides from my presentation here.Feb 21 2018
I will be participating in the CHI 2018 Workshop Understanding "Bad Actors" Online. Check out my position paper, "(Ab)user-Centered Design? Considering the Involvement of Abusive Users in the Design Process.""Feb 9 2018
I am honored to have received a Best Paper of CHI 2018 Award for my work with Foad Hamidi and Stacy Branham on “Gender Recognition or Gender Reductionism? The Social Implications of Automatic Gender Recognition Systems.”
Feb 1 2018
UMBC has awarded me a Professional Edge badge as recognition for outstanding achievement during my internship with Northrop Grumman in Summer 2017.March 19 2017
I have been awarded a Travel Grant from Google to present my Late Breaking Work, "Learning the Language: The Importance of Studying Written Directions in Designing Navigational Technologies for the Blind."March 15 2017
I am a featured graduate student on UMBC's College of Engineering and Technology website.