Full Name
Amy Zhang
Job Title
Computer Science PhD
Company
Massachusetts Institute of Technology CSAIL
Speaker Bio
Amy is a PhD student in Computer Science at MIT CSAIL. She is a member of the Haystack Group at MIT and a 2018-19 Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard.
She works on designing and building systems to improve discourse, collaboration, and understanding on the web, with applications to social media, news, political discourse, education, and civic engagement. Amy also conducts research on computational analysis of large-scale social data to understand user needs and user behavior on social platforms. Her general areas of interests are social computing, CSCW, HCI, and computational social science.
Prior to MIT, Amy worked as a software engineer, completed a Masters in CS as a Gates Scholar at Cambridge, and a Bachelor in CS from Rutgers, where she was captain of the Division I women's tennis team.
Her research is supported by a Google PhD Fellowship and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
She works on designing and building systems to improve discourse, collaboration, and understanding on the web, with applications to social media, news, political discourse, education, and civic engagement. Amy also conducts research on computational analysis of large-scale social data to understand user needs and user behavior on social platforms. Her general areas of interests are social computing, CSCW, HCI, and computational social science.
Prior to MIT, Amy worked as a software engineer, completed a Masters in CS as a Gates Scholar at Cambridge, and a Bachelor in CS from Rutgers, where she was captain of the Division I women's tennis team.
Her research is supported by a Google PhD Fellowship and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
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