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Dr. Zak Kilhoffer successfully defended his dissertation, “HUMAN FACTORS IN THE STANDARDIZATION OF AI GOVERNANCE: IMPROVING THE DESIGN OF RISK MANAGEMENT STANDARDS FOR ETHICAL AI,” on January 24, 2025. His dissertation was awarded the 2025 Berner Nash Dissertation Award.

Dr. Kryie Zhou successfully defended his dissertation, “A PRAGMATIC AND HUMAN-CENTERED APPROACH TO PROMOTING SOFTWARE ACCESSIBILITY: DESIGN, EDUCATION, GOVERNANCE,” on April 3, 2025.

Dr. Smirity Kaushik successfully defended her dissertation, “DIGITAL TRUST, SAFETY, AND PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: EMPIRICAL AND POLICY INSIGHTS FROM GLOBAL SOCIAL MEDIA USE,” on June 16, 2025.

Kyra Abrams, Smirity Kaushik, and Kyrie Zhou all presented at 6th Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity (PrivaCI), September 27-28, 2024:

• Contextual Dimensions of Data Autonomy – Kyra Abrams
• Governing Manipulative and Synthetic Content on Video-based Social Media Platforms – Smirity Kaushik
• Understanding People’s Contextual Choices of Differential Privacy – Kyrie Zhou

GLOSS was well represented at the 2024 ASIST Annual Meeting in Calgary, AB. Kyrie Zhou presented on the panel “Exploring Some Impacts of Advances in Artificial Intelligence: A Social Informatics Approach.”

Dr. Sang Hoo Oh presented “University Governance for Responsible AI” at the 2024 ALISE Annual Conference.

GLOSS PI Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo has co-edited a new book, Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons, with Brett M. Frischmann (Villanova University School of Law) and Michael J. Madison (University of Pittsburgh School of Law). The book examines how several cities handle ethical, economic, political, and social issues arising from the cities’ technologically advanced statuses. More details on this collaborative research with the Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons and news about the book are available.

Chang Liu successfully defended his dissertation “SOCIOTECHNICAL MATCHING: FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS AT THE PERIPHERIES OF CHINESE ECONOMIC REFORM” June 6, 2022.

The committee members were:

Dr. Madelyn Sanfilippo (iSchool), Chair and Director of Research

Dr. Anita Chan (iSchool)

Dr. Michael Twidale (iSchool)

Dr. Yu Hong (Zhejiang University)

The newly minted Dr. Liu is interning with JP Morgan Chase this summer and will begin a postdoctoral fellowship, with support from IBM, at Notre Dame University in the Technology Ethics Center in Fall 2022.

Minseok Jung (BA, 2021) presented a poster entitled “Mapping Geographical Biases of AI Principles” at the 2022 iConference, on March 3.

Alex Rosenberger (MIS, 2021) presented a poster entitled “Digital Contact Tracing in the EU: Data Subject Rights and Conflicting Privacy Governance” at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, in Salt Lake City, Utah on November 1, 2021.