About Us
Faculty
Dr. Andrea Forte
Social Computing Group Director
Professor, Computing and Informatics
Andrea's research spans the areas of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), privacy, social computing, and computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL).
Graduate Students
Jordyn Young
PhD Student
Jordyn's research examines the impact of our increasingly digital lives. Her work spans the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and social computing to unpack technology use in individual and social contexts.
Erica Racine
PhD Candidate
Erica's research involves using qualitative and quantitative methods to take a human-centered approach to answer research questions involving people’s interaction with artificial intelligence tools, such as how individuals assess algorithmic approaches to flagging misinformation online.
Lab Alumni
Dr. Shruti Sannon
Postdoctoral Researcher
@shsannon | https://www.shrutisannon.com/
Shruti’s research examines labor and privacy in digitally-mediated settings, particularly in the context of marginalized groups.
Dr. Houda El mimouni
Post-Doc, Indiana University Bloomington
Houda's research interests lie in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Mediated Communication. She is keen on understanding how humans use technology to communicate and how culture and gender influence such use. She also studies how well designs align with social values and how to make the process of design a value-sensitive one.
Dr. Meen Chul Kim
Meen Chul is a data scientist whose research focuses on learning analytics, visualization, and knowledge engineering. His dissertation goal is to apply quantitative and visualization techniques to understand learning trajectories in informal constructionist learning environments.
Dr. Nora McDonald
Assistant Professor, George Mason University
Dr. Nazanin Andalibi
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Information
Dr. Heather Willever-Farr
PhD, Information Studies, 2017
http://heatherwilleverfarr.com
Heather was manager of digital services at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania while a doctoral student at Drexel University College of Computing and Informatics. Her dissertation research focused on how peer production communities collaboratively build online archives. Her research provides a foundation for the design of systems that support archives users as consumers and producers of historical materials.
Thomas Park
Web Developer and Designer
Tom develops and researches innovative, user-friendly web technologies to support collaboration, learning, and playful online interaction. He received his PhD in 2014 from Drexel College of Computing and Informatics, a masters in educational technology from Johns Hopkins and a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Duke.
Dr. Rachel Magee
Assistant Professor, GSLIS
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Rachel is a youth advocate and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She examines the ways young people interact with technology and what those practices mean for their engagement with information. Rachel holds a PhD from Drexel's College of Computing and Informatics where she was awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship.
Gabby Frost
Music Industry Major, Westphal College of Media Art and Design
When she was 15, Gabby founded The Buddy Project, an online project designed to help teens find support and combat suicide, self harm, and depression. Gabby worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the Drexel Social Computing Research Group studying online social support.
Minh Le
BS in Computer Science
Minh worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the Drexel Social Computing Research Group studying online social support.
Widchard Faustin
BS in Computer Science
Widchard worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the Drexel Social Computing Research Group studying news sites and perceptions of credibility.
Summit Singh Thakur
BS in Computer Science
Summit worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the Drexel Social Computing Research Group studying audio interfaces and human health and wellness.
Sukrit Chhabra
BS in Computer Science, 2016
Sukrit is passionate about Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI); he worked in the social computing research group as a full-time undergraduate research co-op. He worked with the openHTML project team on the design and development of Snowball, a Wordpress plugin to support beginners in learning basic computation through web building.
Brian Lee
BS in Computer Science, 2016
Brian enjoys web application development, especially playing with javascript libraries and learning new programming technologies and also likes to study the mathematical side of Computer Science. He worked in the social computing research group as a full-time undergraduate research co-op. He worked with the openHTML project team on the design and development of Snowball, a Wordpress plugin to support beginners in learning basic computation through web building.
Ankur Saxena
Software Engineer
While studying at Drexel University, Ankur worked in the social computing research group as a full-time undergraduate research co-op. He developed interface features and a data replayer for the openHTML system that was used with beginner web deverlopers in classrooms and workshops.
Dr. Swathi Jagannath
Alumn (PhD advisor: Aleksandra Sarcevic)
While obtaining a masters degree at Drexel, Swathi worked with the social computing group as a part-time research assistant on the openHTML project and assisted with analysis of video data. Swathi recieved her MSIS and then continued as a PhD student with a research focus on HCI and healthcare informatics, advised by Dr. Aleksandra Sarcevic.
