shreya chowdhary

I am a socio-technical researcher and a critical techno-realist. I use interdisciplinary approaches with a critical orientation to understand how technology perpetuates existing systems of oppression and enables new kinds of oppression, identify the necessary social, technical, and legal guardrails to prevent harm, and envision ways for computing to meaningfully advance social justice. I draw heavily from fields like human-computer interaction, critical data/algorithmic studies, science and technology studies, and computer-supported cooperative work. My ultimate goal as a researcher and technologist is to orient computing towards the public interest.

I received a B.S. in Computing from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in 2022, where I researched design refusal and feminist computing with Prof. Erhardt Graeff and co-founded a student-led public interest technology club called PInT. After graduation, I interned at Microsoft Research Montreal in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) group, working with Dr. Koustuv Saha. Since then, I have been working in the tech industry as a software engineer.

I will be a PhD student at the University of Michigan’s School of Information in Fall 2023, advised by Profs. Ben Green and Nazanin Andalibi.

Outside of research, I enjoy reading, cross-stitching, running, exploring local parks, biking, and trying out new recipes – recommendations welcome :)