Research Position
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Media Engagement (Propaganda lab), The University of Texas at Austin 2022 Summer - present
Supervisor: Craig Scott
Woking on a project about propaganda, anonymity, and secrecy
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Media Engagement (Propaganda lab, Data & Democracy group), The University of Texas at Austin 2021 Spring - present
Supervisor: Josephine Lukito
Working on projects about international violence, disinformation, and propaganda using computational and mixed methods
Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Media Engagement (Journalism vertical), The University of Texas at Austin 2020 Spring, Summer, Fall, 2022 Summer
Supervisors: Natalie (Taila) Stroud & Gina Masullo
Worked on Walder project (media coverage of local news organizations in Chicago on immigration; funded through a grant from Walder Foundation), 2022
Collected and analyzed Facebook and Twitter data from 23 Chicago-based news outlets
Worked on Trust in News Project (funded through a grant from Google News) and project on informing voter registration (funded through Democracy Fund), 2020
Conducted multiple experiments
Associate Student leader and Student Leader, Digital Media Research Program (DMRP), The University of Texas at Austin 2019 Fall - 2021 Spring
Supervisor: Thomas Johnson
Fielded a 2-wave survey about COVID-19 misinformation, and a cross-sectional survey about misinformation, news consumption, and algorithmic literacy, funded through UT Austin's Good Systems Graduate Research Award ($18,000, Co-PI)
Led the entire process from designing the surveys to data cleaning and analysis
Research Assistant in the Media School, Indiana University 2017 Summer
Supervisor: Dr. Jae Kook Lee
Worked on data coding and literature review on perceptions about political candidates