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Jiahao Liu is a Ph.D. student in Information Science at Cornell University, advised by Andrea Stevenson Won at the Virtual Embodiment Lab. His research interest mainly lies in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Virtual and Mixed Reality (VR/MR), Digitally-Mediated Communication, etc. He is currently exploring how we could understand the information communicated through immersive media, and with the virtual and mixed reality technology, how we could better facilitate teamwork dynamics, human-human collaboration, and human-agent interaction. 

Areas of Interest: Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual and Mixed Reality, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Digitally-Mediated Communication

Tianqi Liu is an HCI researcher. She is particularly interested in studying fields such as VR, social computing, and ubiquitous computing. She aims to analyze behaviors in human-human and human-machine interactions, and further improve and design future interaction methods.

Areas of Interest: VR, social computing, and ubiquitous computing

Travis Lloyd is a Ph.D. student in Information Science focusing on Computational Social Science, Social Computing, and Tech Policy. He is interested in studying how new technologies impact power relationships in society. Prior to joining Cornell he spent almost a decade working as a software engineer for organizations ranging from large public companies to small legal aid startups. He holds a combined A.B.-Sc.B degree in Computer Science and Music from Brown University.

Research Interests: Computational Social Science, Political Communication, Platform Power, Tech Policy, Social Computing 

Saif works in the Smart Computer Interfaces for Future Interactions (SciFi) Lab, where he is advised by Prof. Cheng Zhang. His research focuses on designing intelligent wearable systems and modeling the behavior and interaction patterns of humans. He received his undergraduate degree majoring in Computer Science from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. For more information, visit Saif's website: https://saif-mahmud.github.io/

Areas of Interest: Machine Learning, Ubiquitous Computing, Wearable Computing, Sensing Systems