Team
Katie Pine
Katie Pine is an Associate Professor in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University. Her interdisciplinary work lies at the intersection of health informatics, human-computer interaction (HCI), computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), and organization studies. She draws on and contributes to these fields with a focus on technology and work in the context of healthcare. Her work specifically examines how people use information and communications technologies (ICTs) as part of healthcare practice and how the design of ICTs, the contexts of ICT use, and the ways that people use ICTs impact how people give and receive healthcare.
Myeong Lee
Myeong Lee is an Assistant Professor of Information Science and the Director of Community Informatics Lab (CIL) at the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University. His research interests are in understanding the dynamics of local communities, technology-enabled groups, and information inequality. Through developing theories of information access and leveraging computational approaches, he aims to help reduce information inequality and contribute to civic engagement, policy-making, socio-technical systems theories, and information access.
Yunan Chen
Yunan Chen is an associate professor of Informatics at Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), with an adjunct appointment in the Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences. Her area of research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), and health informatics. As a physician by training, she is interested in studying how health information is generated, managed, shared, and utilized to drive better care in both clinical and patient-oriented settings.
Mauricio Mejia
G. Mauricio Mejia is a strategic design practitioner and scholar. He currently is Associate Professor of Design and Assistant Director of Research and Knowledge Enterprise for The Design School at Arizona State University. His current work is about strategic design and theories of change. He often collaborates with practitioners and researchers in other fields such as health, sustainability, business, and education.
Melissa Mazmanian
Melissa Mazmanian is a Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Informatics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and, jointly, of Organization and Management at the Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. Melissa's research interests revolve around the use of digital technologies in personal and organizational contexts, specifically in relation to everyday work practice, communication patterns, and the nature of time in the digital age.
Rachel Warren
Rachel Warren is pursuing a PhD in Informatics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Her work focuses on the implications of predictive technologies particularly in the public sector. She is also interested in identifying the technology needs of civil servants and is engaged in building technology to help assist investigative journalists and public defenders.
Hiba Siraj
Hiba Siraj is a current PhD student in the Information Science and Technology department at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Her research interests are information behavior in crisis situations, data-driven decision making and human factors in risk management. Prior to this, she received her Master's degree in Telecommunications (majoring in networking protocols and certified in the cloud). She instructed undergraduate engineering and computing courses before starting her doctoral program. She also has industry experience as a System Engineer.
Ruchita Mandhre
Ruchita A. Mandhre is pursuing a PhD in Design at the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on how participatory prototyping can support collaborative work to sustain change. Strategic design futures, design management, co-design, and experiential making are research areas that inform her scholarly work. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before moving to Arizona she worked as a faculty at Illinois State University, and was an instructor for graphic design courses during her time in graduate school. Prior to this she worked at a design research firm based in India.