People – STAR LAB

Current Members

Gillian Hayes

Gillian runs the STAR Lab and is the Vice Provost for Academic Personnel and the Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Professor of Informatics in the School of Information and Computer Sciences and in the School of Education and School of Medicine at UC Irvine. Her interests include HCI, ubiquitous computing, assistive and educational technologies, and health informatics.

Aehong Min

Aehong is a postdoctoral scholar, specializing in HCI, CSCW, and Health Informatics. Her research focuses on technologies that support the cooperative work of informal caregivers in promoting well-being and health. She has expertise in mixed-methods research and user experience design.

Elizabeth Ankrah

Lizzy is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate and an NSF GRFP Fellow. Her work aims to explore the design of sociotechnical interventions that support the successful transition of adolescent and young adult childhood cancer survivors.

Emani Dotch

Emani is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate, NSF GRFP Fellow, and UC-HBCU Fellow. She uses qualitative methods to design, develop, and evaluate assistive technology to support autistic individuals, especially those from historically marginalized communities.

Sohyeon Park

Sohyeon is a third-year Ph.D. student in Informatics. Her research explores understanding the challenges marginalized populations face in their daily lives and supporting them through the use of state-of-the art assistive technologies, such as LLMs and games.

Ph.D. Alumni

Lucas M. Silva (Assistant Professor at University of Iowa)

Lucretia Williams (Senior Research Scientist at Howard University)

Jazette Johnson (Researcher at University of Washington)

Mark S. Baldwin (Assistant Professor at California State University, Los Angeles)

LouAnne Boyd (Assistant Professor at Chapman University)

Kathryn Ringland (Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz)

Oliver L. Haimson (Assistant Professor at University of Michigan)

Sen Hirano (Director of Data Science and Software, Aromyx Corporation)

Laura Pina (Senior User Researcher at Microsoft)

Lynn Dombrowski (Associate Professor at Georgia Tech)

Jed Brubaker (Associate Professor at University of Colorado Boulder)

David H. Nguyen (Edson W. Spencer Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of Minnesota)

Postdoc Alumni

Jesús Armando Beltrán Verdugo (Assistant Professor at California State University, Los Angeles)

Arpita Bhattacharya (Assistant Teaching Professor at University of Washington)

Megh Marathe (Assistant Professor at Michigan State University)

Franceli Cibrian (Assistant Professor at Chapman University)

Monica Tentori (Professor at CICESE)

Guest Researchers

Hanna Mofid

Jessica Choi

Sara Chong

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