School of Humanities and Sciences
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Jennifer Chien
Postdoctoral Scholar, Philosophy
BioJennifer Chien earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Wellesley College. They were a recipient of the Graduate Fellowship for STEM Diversity. Jennifer is an interdisciplinary researcher focused on preserving user agency across AI/ML pipelines by linking technical decisions with their social consequences. Their work connects technical decisions with social and societal consequences to characterize, measure, and mitigate disparities in autonomy and support safer, more responsible AI. This includes exploring instrumental, cognitive and affective, and epistemic forms of agency. At UCSD, they served as President of Graduate Women in Computing, leading mentorship, outreach, and community-building initiatives and received the Doctoral Awards for Contributions to Diversity and to Service and Leadership, as well as the Xilinx Women in Technology University Grant. Jennifer is currently an Embedded Ethics Fellow in partnership with HAI and the Computer Science department.
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Suleiman Hodali
Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Literature
BioSuleiman Hodali received a PhD in comparative literature from UCLA. He is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Comparative Literature at Stanford University, and was previously a 2025-26 UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside.
His research and teaching are situated at the intersections of several different fields, including eighteenth and nineteenth century studies, British Romanticism, translation theory, modern Arabic literature and culture, literary and critical theory, the history of ideas, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism.
Recent and forthcoming writings appear in such publications as Studies in Romanticism, South Atlantic Quarterly, Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, and Ebb Magazine.
He is presently completing his first book project, titled, New Jerusalems and Modern Crusades: Holy Lands in the Imaginative Geography of Empire. -
Wanheng Hu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Philosophy
BioWanheng Hu is an Embedded Ethics Fellow at Stanford University, jointly appointed by the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), and the Computer Science Department.
His research lies at the intersection of social studies of science, medicine, and technology; critical data/algorithm studies; media studies; and public engagement with science. His current book project ethnographically examines the cultivation of credible machine learning models in complex expert practices, with an empirical focus on image-based diagnostics within the Chinese medical AI industry. Another line of his work focuses on the democratic engagement of ordinary citizens in technoscientific affairs, particularly concerning AI development.
Wanheng received his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University, where he also completed a minor in Media Studies and remains a member of the Artificial Intelligence, Policy, and Practice (AIPP) initiative. He is currently an affiliate at the Data & Society Research Institute. -
Ben Mylius
Postdoctoral Scholar, Philosophy
Current Research and Scholarly Interestsclimate change, culture and imagination
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Jana Pocrnja
Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Literature
BioJana Pocrnja holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Vienna and is currently serving as a Max Kade Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Comparative Literature. Her ongoing research explores the intersection between philosophy and literature, with a particular focus on the concept of poetic reasoning in the works of María Zambrano. Previously, she has conducted research on 19th- and 20th-century Spanish/Latin American and French literature, as well as literary theory, particularly in the field of poetology and reader’s response theory.
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Genevieve Smith
Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Literature
BioI am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University in the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. I completed my doctoral degree at the University of Oxford, where I studied societal impacts of artificial intelligence in low- and middle-income countries, focusing on gender. As a social scientist with a disciplinary background of science and technology studies (STS) and devleopment studies, I examine the impacts of AI on inequality and society, as well as explore more equitable and responsible paradigms for AI technologies globally. I founded the Responsible AI Initiative at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab and teach on responsible AI. I am a research affiliate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at Cambridge University and at the Technology & Management Centre for Development at University of Oxford. Prior, I served as the Responsible AI Fellow at the United States Agency for International Development and as Interim Co-Director of the UC Berkeley AI Policy Hub.
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Jamele Christa Watkins
Postdoctoral Scholar, German Studies
BioJamele Watkins researches and teaches on issues of race and gender in contemporary German performance, film, and literature (broadly speaking). She is currently working on a book project that focuses on Black internationalism and the solidarity campaigns for Angela Davis in the GDR. She completed her doctoral studies in German at UMass Amherst with the completion of dissertation, “The Drama of Race.” She has also studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
