XRDS

Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students

Sign In

Association for Computing Machinery

XRDS: About Us

Editor-in-Chief


Jiayi Li

Web Editor Apply now!
Feature Editors

Cathy Fang
Jasmine Lu
Dhruv Verma
Department Editors

Julia Gersey
Zhongxuan "Elina" He
Deepak Mahto
Jeenisha Shrungare
Albert Hao

 

Digital Content Editor Apply now!
Special Projects Editors Apply now!
Bloggers Apply now!
Departments Chief Apply now!
News Editors Apply now!
Social Media Editor Apply now!
XRDS Alumni

Amanda Hao, Gopal Mengi, Anukruti Mathur, Chaitanya Koparkar, Karan Ahuja, Joewie Koh, Ashka Shah,Gaurang Bansal, Sainyam Galhotra, Muskaan Chopra, Raiful Hasan, Anukruti Mathur, Jasmine DeHart, Jayati Dev, Soumyasnigdha Kundu, Kun Jin, Manandeep, Tejas Morkar, Nupur Shiturkar,  Ross Teixeira, Diane Golay, Travis Faas, Bryan Knowles, Gierad Laput, Oana Niculaescu, Anshuman Majumdar, Parang Saraf, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Apoorva Bhalla, Judeth Oden Choi, Eliezer Bernart, Talia Kohen, Gunnar Wolf, Jeremy Warner, Cori Faklaris, Ophir Friedler, Andrew J. Hunsucker, Jennifer Jacobs, Okke Schrijvers, JHarsh Thakkar,Nidhi Rastogi, Yang Shen, Shefali Bhatnagar, Vasileios Kalantzis, Alok Pandey, Anirvana Mishra, Apoorvaa Singh, Asmaa Rabie, Billy Rathje, Chris Harrison, Daniel Gooch, Derek Bronish, Dmitry Batenkov, Doris Lee, Erin Carson, Fahad Khalid, Finn Kuusisto, Gideon Juve, Hanieh Moshki, Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Jason Thibodeau, Marinka Zitnik, Michael Bernstein, Poornima Kalyan Sundaram, Richard Gomer, Rob Simmons, Roger Finnegan, Ryan K.L.Ko, Sean Follmer, Sergiy Bogomolov, Sumit Narayan, Shudong Hao, Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne, Tom Bartindale, Vaggelis Giannikas, Vicente Garcia Diaz, Peter Kinnaird,  Derek Bronish,  James Stanier,  Malay Bhattacharyya, Marius-Tudor Benea, Anirban Basu, Jed Brubaker, Ben Deverett, Daniel Gooch, Debarka Sengupta, Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh, Hannah Pileggi, Somdip Dey, Shawn Freeman, Luigi De Russis, John Kloosterman, Michael Zuba, Ryan Kelly, Virginie Lerays, Arka Bhattacharya, Shelby Solomon Darnell, Claudia Schulz, David Byrd, Jay Patel, Veronica Estrada-Galinanes, Soumya Jindal, Tejas Khot, Nur Al-Huda Hamdan, Adrian Scoica, Pedro Lopes,  Dimitris Mitropoulos, Maria Kechagia, Norene Kelly, Prachi Kumar, Olivia Simpson, Udayan Umapathi, Darshit Patel, David Guerra, Abdelrahman Hosny, Andrew J. Hunsucker, Vassilios Karakoidas, Wolfgang Richter, Abhineet Saxena, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Gunnar Wolf, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Daniela Zieba, Amari Lewis, Jovian Anthony Jaison, Henri Maxime Demoulin, Numair Khan, Sepideh Maleki, Johanna Schacht

   

Jiayi Li  
UCLA, USA
Co-Editor-in-Chief

Jiayi Li is a Ph.D. candidate in Statistics at UCLA working on machine learning theory, including non-convex optimization and generalization. Besides research, Jiayi enjoys teaching and actively serves as a teaching fellow/lecturer for UCLA MSOL (Masters of Science Online) Program and MAS (Masters of Applied Statistics) Math Camp. She is a recipient of the ACM-W scholarship and the Cathay Bank fellowship in 2020. At ACM XRDS, Jiayi started in 2020 as a feature editor, then a digital content editor in 2021, a lead editor for Summer 2021, before appointed as the co Editor-in-Chief in 2022. 

Cathy Fang   
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Feature Editor

Mengying (Cathy) Fang is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, Tangible Media Group. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. She has received Best Paper recognition from ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2020. Her research interest is in how spatial and context-aware computing experiences connect people and allow us to better explore the world.

Jasmine Lu  
University of Chicago, USA

Feature Editor

Jasmine Lu is a human-computer interaction Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago. Her research revolves around wearables and haptics with a broader interest in how devices can alter conceptions of the boundaries between our bodies, machines, and nature. She is passionate about diversity and inclusion in computing as well as imagining alternative futures through technology. When relaxing, she loves to watch movies and doodle.

 

Dhruv Verma   
Univesity of Toronto, Canada

Feature Editor

Dhruv Verma is a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto, advised by Prof. Alex Mariakakis. Broadly, my research involves advancing the capabilities of computing devices to sense and perceive information (inertial, visual, acoustic, physiological, and others) relevant to understanding the human body, behaviour and the surrounding context.

Julia Gersey
Baldwin Wallace University, USA

Department Editor

Julia Gersey is an undergraduate senior studying Computer Science and Applied Math at Baldwin Wallace University. Her research interests include mobile/IoT sensing, embedded and ubiquitous computing, and human-computer interaction. Julia has published in international conferences like ACM SenSys and AMC RACS and received a NASA Ohio Space Grant Consortium Scholarship twice to support her research. At her university, she serves as the President of the ACM-W Student Chapter and is involved with a K-12 computer science outreach (CS+) program. When she's not studying or working on a side project, she enjoys rock climbing, hiking, and playing softball.

Zhongxuan He
Department of Public & Ecosystem Health, Cornell University, USA

Department Editor

Zhongxuan He recently obtained her MPH degree from Cornell University and is currently taking a gap year working in a hospital research setting. Beyond her work, her research primarily centers on evaluating public health overdose dashboards, as well as addressing sustainability issues related to ecotoxicity and public health risks, such as microplastics from plastic waste mismanagement. She is deeply committed to promoting health equity and serving underserved communities through the data-driven decision-making and advanced computing technology approaches. Zhongxuan is actively preparing to apply to a Doctoral program in the coming year.

 

Deepak Mahto 
Panjab University, India

Department Editor

"I am an inquisitive, dynamic engineering student with a great drive to learn new things, which makes me an invaluable asset. I am now in my junior year (third year) of my four-year Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Engineering program. I am a passionate engineering graduate with a foundation in coding and data science. I am known for my hard work and tenacity, and I have always completed every duty handed to me with the utmost efficiency."

 

Jeenisha Krishna Shrungare
University of Southern California, USA

Department Editor

bio to come.

Albert Hao   
Columbia University, USA

Department Editor

Albert Hao is a sophomore at Columbia University, studying Computer Science. He has worked on frontend/backend web development, machine learning, data science, and databases. He is also a student entrepreneur and has worked on a few startup projects, like OnTrack, an AI productivity app, and Entredev, a business development platform. He serves on Columbia's Interschool Governing Board, Columbia College Student Council, and University Life Events Council. Albert enjoys biking, lifting, reading, and playing volleyball in his free time.

   
   
   

  XRDS Alumni Section >>