David Ribes
Professor
deLAB Director
Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering. Sociotechnical studies of research infrastructure.
Current Students
Shana Hirsch
Research Professor
HCDE
Research Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering. Shana is interested in questions about adaptation in scientific practice and knowledge infrastructures.
Visiting Students
Meg Moldestad
PhD Student
HCDE
Meg’s dissertation work explores the work of qualitative researchers in embedded research programs within healthcare settings.
Will Sutherland
PhD Student
HCDE
Will Sutherland is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering. He studies infrastructure and infrastructural change, particularly in the sciences.
Kyra Arnett
PhD Student
HCDE
Kyra Arnett is a PhD student in Human Centered Design and Engineering. She studies quantification and metrics within technical and scientific practice.
Sayan Bhattacharjee
PhD Student
HCDE
Sayan studies tech organizations' response to social critique and how values are encoded into technology. His research focuses on infrastructure, STS and tech ethics.
Ben Zefeng Zhang
Visiting PhD Student
UMSI
Ben Zhang is a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI). He studies how data-driven systems and data infrastructures reconfigure identity, labor, mobility, and power, along with the resulting sociotechnical implications.
Charlie Hahn
PhD Student
Anthropology
Charlie Hahn is a anthropologist studying the struggle for Alaska Native hunting and fishing rights. His work involves examination of the use of data and environmental science methodologies and infrastructures as part of advocacy practices.
Lab Alums
Steve Slota
(Now Assistant Professor University of Texas Austin — School of Information
Steve is sometimes an infrastructure.
Os Keyes
PostDoc - University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Os studies the way gender is encoded into technical infrastructure, and the social and ethical implications this has for trans people.
Sarah Inman
Now working at Google
Andrew Hoffman
Emeritus Lab Member