Yaxuan Yin

Phd Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison in Information Science
yin75@ wisc.edu

Biography

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In my graduate work, I aim to study and evaluate online social systems (e.g. Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap) to understand how social biases occur in the services and mitigate the biases through computational interventions. Advancing these goals requires taking an interdisciplinary approach; in this case, my work draws on methods from HCI, Statistics and Geography through experiments implementation and system design to address complex social computing problems. My desire is to promote positive social connections in online communities and create more serendipities at distance. My work strives for both inspiration for material in the community and opportunities to foster a closer sense of community. I have had the pleasure of pursuing research work with Dr. Jacob Thebault-Spieker .

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