Emma Harvey & Thalia Viranda
Cornell Tech
Data Annotation as Measurement
Abstract
The Digital Life Seminar series offers students and guests an opportunity to engage actively with leading scholars and practitioners researching and responding to the development and application of digital technologies.
About
Emma Harvey is a PhD student in Information Science at Cornell Tech advised by Allison Koenecke and Rene Kizilcec. She is interested in practical and interdisciplinary approaches for assessing and improving the fairness of sociotechnical systems, particularly through the lens of algorithm auditing. As a DLI Doctoral Fellow, she hopes to explore the ways that data and data annotations encode assumptions that shape the creation and assessment of modern AI and ML systems.
Thalia Viranda is a PhD student in Information Science at Cornell Tech, advised by Prof. Tanzeem Choudhury. Thalia’s work bridges human–computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and clinical psychology. She designs and evaluates sensor- and LLM-based tools to enhance evidence-based treatments for older adults with cognitive impairment and adolescents with eating disorders, and to support collaboration among patients, caregivers, and clinicians.