HyunJoo Oh is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the School of Industrial Design and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and design, specifically studying and building creative technologies that integrate everyday craft materials with computing.

HyunJoo explores how familiar materials can be extended and transformed by computing technology, both as a tool and as a material, to broaden creative possibilities for designers. Her work has been published and exhibited at ACM SIGCHI conferences and in the maker community. HyunJoo holds a Ph.D. in Technology, Media, and Society with a Graduate Certificate in Cognitive Science from the University of Colorado Boulder (2018), a Master of Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon University (2012), a Master of Interaction Design (2010) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Information Design (2008) from Ewha Womans University.

Richmond Wong is an Assistant Professor in Digital Media, where he runs the Creating Ethics Infrastructures Lab.

His research focuses on understanding the social values, ethical issues, and work involved in technology production and use. Specifically, he studies how technology professionals address ethical issues in their work, and how to create the social and organizational conditions that can help support technologists to make ethical decisions. He also develops design-centered approaches to engage groups that create or are impacted by digital technology, to proactively discuss and consider ethical issues related to technology such as privacy or fairness. Richmond's work utilizes qualitative and design-based methods, drawing from science and technology studies, speculative design, and human-computer interaction. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California Berkeley School of Information, and a postdoc at the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.

Cindy Lin is the Stephen Fleming Early Career Assistant Professor at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She is the director of Critical Technocultures Lab. Prior to her professorship at Georgia Tech, she was an assistant professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and the Department of Information Science. She was also a Digital Life Initiative Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech.  

Cindy’s (she/her) research centers on the data practices, exchanges, and expertise of climate change and their relationship to environmental governance in Indonesia and the United States.

Cindy’s current book project examines how environmental data and AI are used to map and predict land and fires on Indonesia’s tropical peatland, the world’s largest terrestrial natural carbon store. Drawing from 3 years of ethnographic research with government ministries and agencies in Jakarta and with North American technology firms contracted as service providers to these institutions, I show that what started out as a state-driven initiative to monitor fire risk from afar transformed into a set of computing and labor-intensive efforts to stabilize fires.

Her work has been published in leading computing venues including ACM CSCW, CHI, DIS, and PD and has been featured in Social Text and CoDesign. Her graduate studies and research have been funded by the National Science Foundation, Dow Sustainability Fellows Program, Rackham Graduate School and the International Institute at the University of Michigan.

Cindy is the co-author of Technoprecarious, a multigraph written with Precarity Lab. She was also the co-director of DoIIIT, an interactive design and making studio. She holds a Ph.D. in Information from the School of Information (UMSI) and a graduate certificate from the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  

Naveena Karusala is an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Her research investigates how we can center care work in the design of AI technologies to enable sustainable futures of work, with a focus on the domains of healthcare and social services. Her work has received recognition at premier venues for Human-Computer Interaction, such as ACM CHI and ACM CSCW. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Naveena also serves on the ACM SIGCHI Executive Committee as Vice-President for Communications.

I am an Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Interactive Computing. I design culturally informed STEM education technologies and increase access to computer science education in sustainable ways for low-income students and underserved communities. My work prioritizes identity development, engagement, and long-term sustainability of interventions.

Prior to Georgia Tech, I was a post-doctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Academy. I have a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon’s HCI Institute and was advised by Amy Ogan and Ken Koedinger.

My research has contributed to the design of a tablet-based learning system used to supplement formal education by over 500 students in rural Tanzania, programmable video games codesigned with children to increase computational thinking and coding skills among low income and marginalized youth in the United States, codesign of a state-wide Artificial Intelligence middle school curriculum, and active collaboration with several schools and organizations. As a passion project, I review children’s storybooks that celebrate African history and culture.

Kexin Rong is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. She is broadly interested in developing systems and tools to help simplify large-scale data analytics, i.e., making it easy for non-experts to utilize their large and complex datasets, by synthesizing techniques from data management, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. She is part of the Georgia Tech database group. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2021 and a B.S. in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology in 2015.

M. Elizabeth (Liz) Azukas is a Senior Research Associate with the Georgia Tech Research Institute and an affiliate faculty member with the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT). Her work sits at the intersection of learning, human-centered technology, and systems change. Drawing on experience as an education leader, university faculty member, and private-sector strategist, Dr. Azukas focuses on how emerging technologies, particularly AI, interactive simulations, and digital learning systems, can strengthen human decision-making, expand professional learning opportunities, and support more equitable and sustainable educational ecosystems.

Dr. Azukas is the co-developer of the DOT Framework (Design + Open Systems Theory), a socio-technical model that guides purposeful, human-centered integration of AI into learning environments. She is currently leading efforts to operationalize DOT into an interactive AI coaching system designed to improve metacognition, reflection, and complex decision-making among education professionals. Her applied research portfolio also includes the design and study of simulation-based learning experiences, including mixed-reality and AI-generated simulations that promote active learning, feedback-rich practice, and systems thinking.

Across her career, Dr. Azukas has blended research and practice to design digital, hybrid, and competency-based learning initiatives in K-12 districts, higher education, and international contexts. Before joining GTRI, she served as an assistant superintendent, director of curriculum, and principal in virtual and traditional school systems, and later as an associate professor of educational leadership and instructional design technology. She has also worked in the private sector in roles spanning strategic planning, learning and development, project management, and product innovation. These experiences inform her ability to bridge research, design, and implementation across diverse organizational environments.

Dr. Azukas' scholarship examines digital leadership, personalized and online learning, simulation-based preparation, human-AI collaboration, and the future of professional learning systems. She has served as principal investigator on multiple projects involving simulations, AI-enhanced learning, robotic telepresence, and digital leadership, and her work appears in journals and edited volumes in AI in education, instructional design, and leadership studies.

She brings to IPaT a dual commitment to technological innovation and the human dimensions of learning, exploring how thoughtfully designed systems can empower learners, leaders, and professionals across sectors, expand access to meaningful learning experiences, and support more adaptive and resilient organizations.

Aaron Gabryluk is a research scientist with the Institute for People and Technology, with research interests in AR/VR, human computer interaction (HCI), educational technology, and accessibility, and gaming. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Roanoke College, as well as an M.S. In Human Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech. His previous research has explored the effects of haptic feedback while in virtual reality, as well as novel interactions for American Sign Language (ASL) games. Other notable work includes his development on PopSignAI, an interactive ASL game which teaches users how to sign while playing a bubble shooter game.

Andrew Zhao is a research scientist II with the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech. He earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2023, specializing in Social Computing. His work focuses on how social media functions as a medium for information transfer and social connection, particularly in the contexts of mental health and elections. Currently, he supports two projects as a full-stack developer: the Collecting and Analyzing Networked Data for Open Research (CANDOR) Portal with the SocWeb Lab, and the AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsive Interaction for Networked Groups (AI-CARING). Across these initiatives, he has built end-to-end social media data pipelines, deployed and maintained web applications, authored detailed technical reports, fine-tuned large language models (LLMs), and helped manage computing infrastructure.

Hui Cai is a professor of the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she served as the Chair of the Department of Architecture, and the Director of Research at the Institute of Health and Wellness Design at the University of Kansas. She also previously served as the Health + Science research leader and designer at CallisonRTKL Associates in Dallas. Cai received her Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology after several years of architectural education and practice in China and Singapore.

Dr. Cai’s research focuses on using a performance-driven and evidence-based design approach to analyze the relationship between culture, human behavior, and the physical environment, especially in healthcare settings and healthy communities. Dr. Cai combines various analytical tools in her research, such as space syntax analysis, discrete event simulations, and behavioral mappings. Cai disseminates her work extensively through numerous publications and presentations. Her work in healthcare research has received several awards, including the International Academy Award for Best Research project, AIA-AAH/AAH Foundation Burgun Fellowship, and the Inaugural Wilbur H (Tib) Tusler, Jr. Health Design Research Prize awarded by the Foundation for Health Environments Research. She is recently named as 2021 HCD 10 Healthcare Design Educator. She also served on the Board of Directors for the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA).