Emily Tseng
Postdoctoral Researcher
About
Emily’s research examines how computing mediates harm, how to intervene, and what it means to do so. Trained as a scientist-advocate for survivors of gender-based violence, she works across interpersonal, organizational, and societal levels of harm to build the sociotechnical infrastructures we need to make digital technology safer for everyone. Her current research interests include the psychological effects of AI red-teaming, building open LLM toolkits with and for journalists, and how AI mediation sets norms for care and harm in interpersonal relationships. Emily publishes at top-tier venues in human-computer interaction (ACM CHI, CSCW) and computer security and privacy (USENIX Security, Oakland). With her collaborators, she has earned several Best Paper distinctions and an Internet Defense Prize, third place. Emily earned her BA at Princeton University and her PhD at Cornell Information Science. After her postdoc with MSR, she will join the University of Washington in Seattle as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering.