PhD Candidates

	Marion Bartl Research Interests: Fair NLP: Mitigating bias and discrimination in datasets and machine learning models for natural language processing. Email: marion.bartl@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Susan Leavy
	Justin Edwards (he/him) Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, interruptions, multitasking, speech interfaces, proactive agents Thesis Title: Understanding Spoken Interruptions to Inform Design of Proactive Speech Agents Email: justin.edwards@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor(s): Assoc Prof Benjamin Cowan (primary supervisor) and Prof. Julie Berndsen (second supervisor)
	Orla Cooney (she/her) Research interests: Human Computer Interaction, Conversational User Interfaces, Digital Mental Health Thesis Title: Designing Speech Agents to Support Mood Logging Email: orla.cooney@ucdconnect.ie Supervisors: Assoc Prof Benjamin Cowan, Dr. Gavin Doherty (TCD)
	David Carrie (they/them) Research interests: include information behaviour, information literacy, gender identity, equity in library service provision and exploring the diverse lived experiences of those within the LGBTQIA+ community. Thesis Title: The role of information in the formation of gender identity for non-binary and genderqueer people Email: david.carrie@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor(s): Assoc Prof Crystal Fulton and Dr. Claire McGuinness
	Megan Fahy Research Interests: Fostering Digital Social Capital through Design for Wellbeing. Email: megan.fahy@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Marguerite Barry
	Jean Itangayenda Research Interests: Peer-to-peer financial transactions in Rwanda Email: jean.itangayenda@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Kalpana Shankar
	Christo Jacob Research Interests: Exploring Digital Colonialism and the Crisis of LGBTQ Political Representation in South India. Email: christo.jacob@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Páraic Kerrigan
	Jason Kalathas Research Interests: How Emerging Technologies Are Conceived and Understood Across Society Email: Jason.kalathas@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Eugenia Siapera
	Xinna Li (She/her) Research Interests: Health Communication, Science Communication, Social Media Thesis Title: Social Media, Information Types and Sources, and the Public Perception and Response to COVID-19 in China Email: xinna.li@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Eugenia Siapera
	Xiaoyi Liu Research Interests: Formulate Research Topic: Social Media and Misogyny: Online Hate Discourse Against Women in China Email: xiaoyi.liu@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Eugenia Siapera
	Loise Macharia (She/Her) Research Interests: Journalism Practice; Media studies; Political Conflict; Democratic systems; Governance Thesis Title: Constructive News & Conflict: ”A study of Media Coverage and Terrorism in Kenya 2010-2022 Email: loise.macharia@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Marguerite Barry
	Naoise McNally Research Interests: Auditing Facebook Algorithms: A Longitudinal Study of the Algorithmic Rating of News Email: naoise.mcnally@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Susan Leavy and Dr Marco Bastos
	Ana Moritz Research Interests: Repertoires of Resistance against Big Tech in Brazil Email: ana.moritz@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Kalpana Shankar
	Marie O’Neill Research Interests: The Visible Library Publisher: The Strategic Positioning of Academic Library Publishing in the Irish Scholarly Communications Landscape Email: marie.oneill@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Lai Ma
	Giulia Osti (she/her)    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence for GLAMs, Computer Vision, Digital Curation, Heritage Studies, Knowledge Organisation, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Mixed Research Methods, Data Science.   Thesis Title: Customising AI for Digital Curation Work that Utilises Controlled Vocabularies    Email: giulia.osti@ucdconnect.ie  Supervisors: Dr Amber Cushing, UCD and Assoc Prof Suzanne Little (DCU)
	Paola PeÃ±a (Peña) (she/her) Research interests: My research focuses on the communicative mechanisms that people and machines employ during speech interactions and how these can promote more natural conversations. Thesis title: The division of labour in human-machine communication: Exploring the allocation of perspective-taking resources.   Email: paola.pena@ucdconnect.ie Supervisors: Assoc Prof Benjamin Cowan and Dr. Rachel McDonnell
	Aoife Quinn Hegarty Research Interests: Modalities of Representation of Irish Feminist Movements in Irish Media 1960 – 2019: Media Activism, Production Culture and Feminist Organising Email: aoife.quinnhegarty@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Eugenia Siapera and Dr Páraic Kerrigan
	Jacka Rhys Research Interests: Perspective Taking in Multiparty Human-Machine Dialogue Email: jacka.rhys@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Assoc Prof Benjamin Cowan
	Marin Schmalzried Research Interests: Imagining and Designing the Metaverse Email: marin.schmalzried@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Eugenia Siapera
	Daniel Snow Research Interests: Data Aware Design: A framework for understanding human-data interaction in HCI and AI Email: daniel.snow@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Marguerite Barry
	Otavio Vinhas (he/him; they/them) Research Interests: Misinformation, Fact-checking, Social Media, Dewesternization Thesis Title: When Fact-checking is not WEIRD: Challenges in fact-checking beyond the Western World Email: otavio.vinhas@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr. Marco Bastos
	Yunhan Wu Research Interests: My area of interest is the non-native (L2) speakers’ language production & generation pattern, and the partner model in human-machine dialogue, especially focused on Mandarin Chinese speakers. This mainly focuses on how non-native speakers generate their non-native language when they interact with a speech agent and if there is any difference between L2 human-human interaction. Thesis Title: L2 speaker language production in human-machine dialogue interaction. Email: Yunhan.wu@ucdconnect.ie  Supervisor(s): Assoc Prof Benjamin Cowan