Tonya Nguyen
PhD Student
Focus
Human-computer interaction, social computing, human-centered AI, algorithmic fairness, participatory design, value-sensitive design
Biography
Tonya Nguyen is a Ph.D. student at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Her work centers on human-computer interaction (HCI), social computing, and human-centered AI. She builds computational social systems by collaborating with communities, using ethnography, and conducting controlled experiments. In the past, she worked on digital fabrication projects, built CSCW tools for online collaboration, and built online experiments to study team viability and fracture. She received her in B.A in Interdisciplinary Studies (Computer Science, Design Innovation, and Critical Theory) from UC Berkeley.
