DEER Lab

Digital Engagement and Empowerment Research Lab

I mentor graduate and undergraduate students, who are passionate about inventing the future of human-computer interaction and social computing. My graduate students come from diverse backgrounds, but share a record of academic excellence and demonstrated passion for deep insights into HCI.

PhD Students at George Mason University

Junjie Ma

Haichang Li

Shiwei Hong

Weisen Zhao

Dhiman Goswami (co-advised with Sanchari Das)

PhD Students at City University of Hong Kong

Piaohong Wang (co-advised with Jiawei Ma)

Huanchen Wang (co-advised with Yuxin Ma)

Zhiyang Wu (co-advised with Chen Liu)

Luoying Lin (co-advised with Shengdong Zhao)

Jian Ma (co-advised with Kede Ma)

Zhaoning Li (co-advised with Chen Ma)

Run Yang (co-advised with Yuhan Luo)

Alumni PhDs

Siying Hu

Yu Zhang

Qian Wan

Alumni Research Assistants/Interns

Ryan Yen (UWaterloo MSc, MIT PhD)

Felicia Li Feng (UWaterloo PhD)

Ethan Zhiyi Rong (U Toronto PhD)

Elise Chenxinran Shen (UBC MSc, U Toronto PhD)

Ningjing Tang (CMU PhD)

Ankolika De (Penn State PhD)

Lanjing Liu (Virginia Tech PhD)

Minzhu Zhao (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities PhD)