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Jonathan Segal is a Ph.D. student in Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on augmented and virtual reality, especially in healthcare settings. He is broadly interested in developing novel use cases for XR technologies. Prior to Cornell, Jonathan was at Iowa State University working with Dr. Michael Dorneich and Dr. Stephen Gilbert at the Virtual Reality Application Center. He is currently working with Andrea Stevenson Won.

Areas of Interest: Human-Computer Interaction, Augmented/Virtual Reality, Health Technology

Farhana Shahid (she/ her) is a PhD student in Cornell Information Science working with Professor Aditya Vashistha. She studies online communities in the Global South, and investigates issues around problematic online behavior and content moderation. Farhana did her Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Before joining Cornell she worked as a lecturer of Computer Science at Brac University.

Areas of Interest: HCI, Content Moderation, Online Communities

Eden is a Ph.D. student advised by Tanzeem Choudhury at the People-Aware Computing Lab. Before joining Cornell, Eden was a Bridge to Ph.D. Scholar at Columbia University in the Department of Computer Science and an instructor for Columbia's Pre-College Program (teaching courses in data science and machine learning). She's interested in public health infodemiology and reliable information extraction and interpretation for passive syndromic surveillance.

Areas of Interest: Public health infodemiology and reliable information extraction and interpretation for passive syndromic surveillance

Ian is a Ph.D. student in Information Science at Cornell Tech. He is co-advised by Dr. Nicola Dell and Dr. Aditya Vashistha. His research is focused on building and evaluating computing technologies that aim to improve the lives of underserved and marginalized populations. In particular, he is interested in community and in-home healthcare, mental health, climate resilience, and responsible artificial intelligence.