Amy Bruckman

Regents' Professor
College of Computing

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Amy Bruckman is a Regents' Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She and her students in the ELC lab do research on social computing. Amy received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab's Epistemology and Learning group in 1997, and her AB in Physics from Harvard in 1987.

Ciabhan Connelly

Ph.D. candidate
Human-Centered Computing

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Ciabhan's research looks at political radicalization online, and how online communities for men can be designed to support more constructive and empathetic dialogue. Before coming to Georgia Tech, Ciabhan completed his undergraduate degree in Computational Approaches to Political Analysis at Indiana University.

Jay Foriest

Ph.D. candidate
Human-Centered Computing

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Jay's research investigates digitally inhibited help-seeking. She uses her education in public health and professional experience in trauma care settings to understand how technology reinforces offline barriers to violence prevention faced by vulnerable groups. She holds an MPH from the University of Southern California, an M.S. in Technology Leadership and Management from Agnes Scott College, and a B.S. in Health Science from Columbus State University.

Xander Koo

Ph.D. candidate
Human-Centered Computing

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Xander's research examines how service-industry workers use technology to communicate with one another, and explores how technologists and HCI researchers can contribute to the design and development of worker-centered technologies. Xander graduated from Pomona College (chirp chirp), where they studied computer science and Asian studies. Outside of research, Xander loves street dance, cooking, and collecting weird houseplants.

Eli Min

Ph.D. student
Human-Centered Computing

Eli is a first year Ph.D. student studying online communities, trust in AI and large language models, and the spread of misinformation. During her undergraduate career, Eli studied computer science and philosophy before working in industry as a software engineer specializing in big data. She has worked at Microsoft, Expedia, and Garmin, and her current research is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Drew Flaherty

M.S. student
Human–Computer Interaction

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Originally from Pennsylvania, Drew graduated in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in marketing from West Chester University, where he went on to work as a front-end developer for two years. He obtained a master's degree in nonprofit management from the University of Georgia in 2021 and worked for several years leading a comprehensive student engagement program to educate the community on the impact of philanthropy in higher education. Currently, Drew is a graduate student at Tech studying Human-Computer Interaction. His research is aimed at exploring how the GT Connect platform can better serve online-only students.

Mengting Tu

M.S. student
Computer Science

Mengting is a second-year M.S. student in Computer Science with a specialization in Social Computing. Before coming to Georgia Tech, she completed a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Gender Studies through the Shanghai Jiao Tong University–University of Michigan partnership program. Her research interests explore how technology affects communities, online mental health, and technology adoption among service-industry workers. In her free time, Mengting enjoys writing fiction and getting outdoors.

Lucy Scott

Undergrad student
Computational Media

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Lucy Scott is a current 4th year undergraduate Computational Media student with threads in Media and Interaction Design. She is currently completing her Research Option, writing her thesis on using NLP methods to analyze how service industry workers talk about their jobs online. Lucy is passionate about learning how to use new technologies to better support workers, not replace them. When not doing lab work, homework, or running footballs for the GTFB team, Lucy enjoys feeding her Red Bull habit with new flavors (current favorite: Amber Edition) and reading.