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Hi, I'm Leah!
I love bringing a philosophical lens to modern technology problems
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota where I am advised by Stevie Chancellor and funded by the College of Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. I am a member of the GroupLens research lab. My PhD research agenda is focused on understanding how taking a philosophical stance—marrying theory building with empirical substantiation—can rigorously inform more ethical data decisions. I mainly explore this in online communities and predictive systems. Inspired by my work as a yoga teacher, my guiding philosophy is to care for the communities whose data makes our research and technologies possible. CV Below:
Life Happenings!
Research
Peer-Produced Friction: How Page Protection on Wikipedia Affects Editor Engagement and Concentration
Leah Ajmani, Nick Vincent, Stevie Chancellor
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW (2023)
Epistemic injustice in online communities: Unpacking the values of knowledge creation and curation within CSCW applications [Workshop Proposal]
Leah Ajmani, Mo Houtti, Jasmine Foriest, Nick Vincent, Michael Ann Devito, Isaac Johnson
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW (2023)
Leah Ajmani*, Stevie Chancellor*, Bijal Mehta, Casey Fiesler, Michael Zimmer, Munmun De Choudhury
*Both authors contributed equally to the paper
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency - FAccT (2023)
Ashlee Milton, Leah Ajmani, Michael Ann Devito, Stevie Chancellor
Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI (2023)
Ethical Tensions, Norms, and Directions in the Extraction of Online Volunteer Work [Workshop Proposal]
Hanlin Li, Leah Ajmani, Moyan Zhou, Nicholas Vincent, Sohyeon Hwang, Tiziano Piccardi, Sneha Narayan, Sherae Daniel, and Veniamin Veselovsky
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW (2022)
Brian McInnis, Leah Ajmani, Steven Dow
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW (2022)
🏆 Impact Recognition
Brian McInnis, Leah Ajmani, Lu Sun, Yiwen Hou, Ziwen Zeng, and Steven P. Dow.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW (2021)