A headshot of Sharon with ombre, wavy hair. Her hair is dark at the roots and light at the bottom, contrasting the white background. She is wearing a checkered blazer and gold hoop earrings.

NEWS COLUMN:

March 2024 - Paper on understanding ableist hate and harassment is fully accepted to CHI!

September 2023 - Started a student researcher position at Google

February 2023 - Paper on voice Assistant use by older adults accepted to CHI 23!

June 2022 - Nothing Micro About it: Examining Ableist Microaggressions on Social Media accepted to ASSETS 22!

June 2021 - Paper on Response Bias within accessibility research accepted to ASSETS 21 and nominated for best paper

June 2021 - Joined the PhD Founder Track Dorm Room Fund Summer Cohort

March 2021 - Received the Cornell Epperson Entrepreneurship Fund to work on my startup for the summer

April 2020 - Awarded the 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!





 

Hi there! I am an Information Science PhD Candidate @Cornell Tech co-advised by Shiri Azenkot and Aditya Vashistha.

My work is at the intersection of accessibility,  human-computer interactions, and digital safety. I am motivated in understanding digitally-mediated ableism on social media to better support disabled people’s self-expression and safety online. This includes examining disability-related discrimination by other users and how platforms facilitate and exacerbate such harmful experiences. I hope to reimagine a more inclusive digital space for the disability community. 

Prior to Cornell, I’ve received my bachelor’s in Human Centered Design and Engineering @University of Washington. There, I worked with Julie Kientz and Alexis Hiniker on research related to child-computer interactions & health. Then, I spent a year on the research team @AT&T working on entertainment products.

Love meeting new people so feel free to reach out via ssh247 (at) cornell.edu and follow me on Twitter!