J. MARIE PERKINS (she/her), a PhD student in Information Science at the University of Illinois, studies natural language processing and social computing from a user-centered, humanistic perspective, working at the intersections of fields like cultural analytics, human-computer interaction, and data-driven policy design. Before turning to a career in data science, she spent several years pursuing cross-disciplinary projects in the worlds of advertising, public relations, and literary scholarship. An alumna of the M.A. in English program at ±«ÓãÖ±²¥, she has had her research federally funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) since 2019.
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