Yu-Ju (Marisa) Yang
I am a third-year PhD student in Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Dr. Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo. I have a master's degree in Public Policy Management from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor's in Political Science (International Relations) and Library and Information Science from National Taiwan University.
My research interests are broadly in the sociotechnical governance of technology, AI governance, and responsible AI.
I study and build responsible AI artifacts, including but not limited to tools, taxonomies, and frameworks, and I am interested in how different artifacts are designed and approached, and how they bridge (or fail to bridge) the gap between AI principles and practice.
I am also interested in AI-driven political harm in democratic and authoritarian regimes.
Feel free to reach out if you're interested. I'm happy to chat. Contact me at yuju2@illinois.edu.
Selected Publications
Privy: Envisioning and Mitigating Privacy Risks for Consumer-facing AI Product Concepts.
In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26). Honorable Mention
Boundary Negotiating Artifacts to Envision the Desired Research Data Infrastructure toward Reproducibility in Data-Intensive Science.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
Phrenology, Surveillance, and More! A Taxonomy of AI Privacy Risks.
In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). 🏆 Best Paper Award
"Design, Design, and Design Again": An Information-Architecture Redesign Workflow from Case Studies of a Government Portal and a Learning-Management System.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13972. Springer, Cham (iConference '23).
User Perception and Eye Movement on A Pandemic Data Visualization Dashboard.
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (AS&IST '22).