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Freddy is a third-year PhD student in the Computing and Data Science department at Boston University, and advised by the fantastic Allison McDonald. His work explores how power dynamics are shifted by technology with a focus on applying human-driven methods to complex issues. Currently, his projects are on 2nd order dynamics in digital spaces within labor unions and the motivations used by cryptographers for their research.
Lingyi Xu is a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University. She works with Professor Vijaya B. Kolachalama to seek solutions to data missingness in multimodal learning. Her work investigates how different data modalities can be represented and aligned to make learning more adaptable and their relationships more interpretable.
Yan (Stella) Si is a PhD student at Boston University’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences working with Dr. Joshua Peterson. Her work focuses on human decision making—building large-scale decision-making datasets, developing computational models, and automating the discovery of psychology theory with LLMs.
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