Sohyean Hwang
she/her
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
Sohyeon Hwang is a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University in the Center for Information Technology Policy. She studies how everyday users can and should shape the governance of digital technologies, with a particular focus on communities as valuable forms of collective decision-making and organizing to anticipate and respond to potential technological harms. In her projects, Hwang leverages mixed methods to understand how community-based models of governance can be better supported so that everyday people have greater autonomy in addressing pressing issues such as those around online safety, information integrity, and algorithmic bias.
Hwang holds a Ph.D. from the School of Communication at Northwestern University, where she was a member of the Community Data Science Collective and supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. She received a B.A. from Cornell University double majoring in government and information science, focusing on revolutions and ideology in the former and data science/ethics in the latter.