Hi, I’m Qunfang

I am a postdoc fellow at the Inequality in America Initiative at Harvard University and a 2024-2025 fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Before that, I was a postdoc researcher under the mentorship of Dr. Deen Freelon at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

I received my Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, advised by Dr. Bryan Semaan. I earned my B.S. in Information Management and System and M.S. in Information Science from Peking University in 2014 and 2016. I also minored in Economics in the National School of Development at Peking University.

My research spans the areas of human-computer interaction (HCI), social justice, and human-centered AI. My work strives to challenge how socio-technical systems are built to enable and propagate inequalities while advocating for design justice perspectives and practices that reshape these systems. My work has been published in places of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the ACM Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), the ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC), and the International Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O).

News

11/19/2024 I am giving a talk on “Designing for Social Equity in Socio-Technical Systems” at the Young Achievers Symposium, hosted by the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Pennsylvania State University.

11/06/2024 I am attending CSCW 2024 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Check out our paper, Dismantling Gender Blindness in Online Discussion of a Crime/Gender Dichotomy, which received a DEI recognition!

10/14/2024 I am presenting our paper, Designing an Intervention Tool for End-User Algorithm Audits in Personalized Recommendation Systems at the 7th FAccTRec Workshop: Responsible Recommendation.

09/19/2024 Very excited to join the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard as a 2024-25 Fellow!

05/09/2024 I will present our papers at CHI 2025: Negotiating Sociotechnical Boundaries: Moderation Work to Counter Racist Attacks in Online Communities and Malicious selling strategies in livestream E-commerce: A case study of alibaba’s taobao and ByteDance’s TikTok.