I'm a fourth year PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Information Science. My research aims to critically examine how data about queer and marginalized people is made and used. I have experience using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
You can find a copy of my CV here.
As part of ongoing research, I have been critically analyzing dating apps, with a focus on how queer identities are transformed into data and utilized within the context of platform-facilitated profile recommendation.
This project examines how Wikidata, a database styled sister site to Wikipedia, handles queer identities. We examined the evolution of and discussions around the datafied representations of sexuality and gender identity. We pay special attention to the tensions that arose when trying to encapsulate the breadth of queer identities into a rigid database schema.
This study follows our Wikidata project, and hopes to understand the representation and integration of queer individuals into the Wikipedia landscape as a whole.
For this project, we studied two common crime mapping algorithms, KMeans and KDE, and their deployment. We critically analyzed the algorithm itself, as well as interviewing professionals and stakeholders use experience. This project culminated in my Master's thesis, which was defended in April of 2020.