hi! i'm joice.

I'm a fourth year PhD student in Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington, where I am affiliated with Inquilab. I'm advised by Dr. Sucheta Ghoshal and Dr. Jennifer Turns. I am also a Graduate Researcher with the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.

Like many others at this time, I spend a lot of time thinking about how workers (and labor, more broadly) are affected by AI and automation. My research centers critical sociotechnical perspectives to explore how workers can organize for more autonomy over technology in their workplaces, while simultaneously considering how community-based participatory design methods may potentially be helpful to the cause. Bringing together my work and my organizing with UAW Local 4121 (the union of academic workers at the UW), my dissertation research focuses on how artificial intelligence will—and already does—redefine the work of teaching assistants and graduate instructors in higher education. At the Harry Bridges Center, I am working with Rachel Erstad to study the impacts of AI on Black workers and workers of color in the US.

I grew up in Vancouver, Canada, where I graduated with a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia. I also hold an M.Sc. in HCDE from UW. If I seem familiar, chances are that we've met before—I have historically changed my hair often, though my hair is likely currently some shade of pink!