hi! i'm joice.

I'm a fifth year PhD candidate 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 also work closely with Rachel Erstad at the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and Dr. Vera Khovanskaya in the Labour Process and Technology Lab.

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 research can support workers in organizing for more autonomy over technology in their workplaces, while simultaneously examining how community-based participatory design & research methods may 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.

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. To keep my hands busy, I like to handbuild pottery for my friends and family. 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!