Nazanin Andalibi, Ph.D.
SOCIAL COMPUTING RESEARCHER
If you are a prospective Ph.D. student and would like to work with me: You should apply and be admitted to the UMSI PhD program. You are encouraged to include my name as a potential advisor in your application (e.g., when you are asked to tag potential faculty advisors, and in your research statement). Some applicants may have seen advice here and there to reach out to potential faculty advisors prior to applying. You are welcome to reach out to me if you would like to, however, you should rest assured that I will see and carefully review your application if you have indicated interest in working with me, whether you contact me prior to applying or not. If you do contact me prior to applying, I may not be able to get back to you; if that ends up being the case, that is not a signal of anything; so do not worry! It just means I get way more emails than I can possibly attend to. My advice would be to just focus your energy on putting a great application package together. If you do email, my one advice would be to avoid general inquiries just because they are not very informative; for example, rather than expressing interest in a field like social computing or HCI broadly, I would love to know what research questions excite you and how you think about problems; What are the problems you care about and want to address? Why do those problems matter? How would you address those problems? It is truly a joy when PhD students expand my thinking and intellectually engage with pressing socio-technical issues.
I will be recruiting new PhD students for the current application cycle.
I also enjoy working with motivated undergraduate and master's students. If you are a current undergraduate or master's student at U-M (including beyond UMSI) and would like to work with me: Please read at least one of my publications. Then write 1-2 reflection paragraphs and summarize the article in your own words, stating what you found most interesting, and describing how you might extend this work.
Alternatively, if you are set on exploring a particular research question, please write an email that very clearly describes your thoughts as to why that question is important and how you think we could work together. What you write about will not necessarily be what you may work on with me, but this exercise allows me to understand your thought process, and assess whether there is a good fit between my work and your interests. Once you have done so, please email me and include your reflection paragraph(s), CV, and transcripts. If you are offered a position to join my research group, you will likely work with more senior members of the group such as PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.
If you would like to request a letter of recommendation from me, please fill out this form. Then email me to let me know that you have done so.
These are the fantastic people I have had or currently have the privilege of working with.
Doctoral Students
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
PhD Students
Cassidy Pyle
She/her/hers
Ph.D, Information
Interests: social media, social support, information seeking, marginalization, stigma, privacy
Co-advised by Nicole Ellison
PhD Students
Kathryn Roemmich
She/her/hers
Ph.D, Information
Interests: technoethics, information law and privacy rights, usable and accessible privacy design, bias in emerging technologies
Co-advised by Florian Schaub
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Kristen Barta
She/her/hers
Ph.D, Communication, University of Washington
Interests: social media visibility and vulnerability; disclosure and privacy; social media affordances; online social support
Masters Students
Somya Bhagwagar
She/her/hers
MS, Information
Interests: social media, usable and accessible privacy, algorithmic bias, storytelling, and personal narrative disclosure and persuasion
Masters Students
Katie Wolberg
She/her/hers
BSc Information
Interests: social media, technology for good, online social support, inclusive technologies
Masters Students
Serena Fan
She/her/hers
BSE, Computer Science
Interests: human-computer interaction, AI, social media, privacy, social computing
Masters Students
Tillie Rosenberg
She/her/hers
BS, Major Undecided
Interests: social media, mental health and well-being, information law, bias in technologies
Masters Students
Kristen Bowen
She/her/hers
Ph.D, Information Science, UNC Chapel Hill
Interests: social media, user experience, health, accessibility, marginalized groups, stigma, information behavior
Masters Students
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Dan Delmonaco
He/him/his
Ph.D, Information
Interests: health information practices, LGBTQ+ health, sex education, science and technology studies
Masters Students
Gabriel Grill
He/him/his
Ph.D, Information
Interests: critical studies of algorithms, data and infrastructure, surveillance and resistance studies, sociology of risk, time and welfare
Masters Students
Nadia Karizat
She/her/hers
M.S., Health Informatics; M.S., Urban and Regeonal Planning
Interests: population health, collective memory, urban social movements, health informatics, trauma-informed/inclusive technologies
Masters Students
Emily Sartorius
She/her/hers
M.S., Information
Project: voice assistants and privacy
Former Student Collaborators/Postdocs
Karen Boyd
She/her/hers
Ph.D. Information, University of Maryland
Interests: how technologists work with and think about values
Cameron Giniel
He/him/his
M.S., Information
Interests: social media, social media’s role in labor organizing, social computing, human-computer interaction, sustainable technologies
Wei Li
She/her/hers
M.S., Information
Interests: disclosure, narrative, social media, interactive storytelling
Ky Wojciechowski
She/her/hers
M.S., Information
Interests: health services access especially for marginalized and underserved communities
Justin Buss
He/him/his
M.S., Information
Interests: gender, social media, identity formation and management, information behaviors
Other Student Collaborators
Madison Flood
She/her/hers
B.S., Anthropology
Interests: mental health, social computing, privacy, technology
Sarah Lynch
She/her/hers
B.S., Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience
Interests: mental health, suicide prevention, social support, social media, neuropsychology
Rocío Cuesta Camuñas
She/her/hers
B.S., Political Science, Creative Writing
Interests: pregnancy loss and social media, Puerto Rico
Annabelle Angus
She/her/hers
B.S. Cognitive Science
Interests: technology for good, organizations
Joyce Ho
She/her/hers
B.S. Biopsychology, Cognition, & Neuroscience; Gender and Health
Interests: mental health, stigma, population health, and technology