Profile
I
am currently an assistant professor in the social informatics group in
the School of Informatics,
and an adjunct professor in the School
of Library and Information Science.
My research projects focus on the uses of data and information (digital and otherwise) in scientific pedagogy, practice, and policy. I am also a co-PI on ETHOS, an NSF-sponsored project to investigate aging and home-based technology. I've also done some work with Professor David Wild in the School of Informatics on collaborative technologies for grassroots disaster management and mitigation. I am also interested in how to conduct research on these topics through various kinds of ethnography and other qualitative methods.
After completing my Ph.D. in library and information science at UCLA, I conducted postdoctoral research in the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA and completed a AAAS Science Policy Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health Office of Evaluation.
Please check out my research and publications pages for more details.
News
I've been invited to spend a month at the Virtual Knowledge Studio in Amsterdam in May 2008. I'll be examining the intersections of play and work in networked science, among other things!