Hi! I’m Jenny. I’m a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, mentored by Orson Xu and Brian Smith. I’m also a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. I design and evaluate the impact of AI-mediated communication tools on people’s emotional and social well-being. With a training background in cognitive science and design research, I applied a wide range of in-person and remote research methodologies, from large-scale surveys to participatory design workshops. One of my current works examined how augmented reality glasses affect social interactions through a human-centered design approach.

Previously, I completed my Ph.D. in Information Science at Cornell University, affiliated with the Interplay Research Studio directed by Malte Jung. I was also a visiting research scientist with Honda Research Institute (US and EU), a visiting researcher in the Social Technologies research group at Cornell Tech, working with Mor Naaman, and a visiting scholar at Brown HCI, working with Jeff Huang.