Eujean Byun started her doctoral studies in Management of Complex Systems at the University of California, Merced in Fall 2020. She received her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Dongduk Women’s University in Seoul and received her Master of Science in Management Information Systems from Korea University Business School. Before joining to the UC Merced, she had been worked as a researcher at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul.

Her research area is human behaviors in online communities, especially she focuses on cyberbullying, which is an unjust behavior caused by the characteristics of the Internet environment. She studies the motivations of cyberbullying from various perspectives and systematic ways to mitigate cyberbullying.

Nancy Ooi started her academic journey in Fall 2021, focusing on a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. She is a research assistant investigating the exploitation of children in family social media content.

Her research delves into the legal and policy dimensions of this issue, particularly exploring the privacy concerns and potential harm faced by children involved in such content creation. Utilizing qualitative research methods, Nancy conducts interviews with advocates, technology experts, and law students using snowball sampling to gather comprehensive insights. Her research question is: When family content creators include their children in for-profit content, what are the social, legal, and well-being impacts on their children?​

On June 18, 2024, Nancy testified before the Assembly Standing Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection in support of SB 764, applying her research to help protect minors used in content creation.  

After pursuing her bachelor's degree, Nancy wants to go to law school, using her diverse academic background to address important social problems. 

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Calvin Hoang began studying at University of California, Merced in Fall 2021. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Management and Business Economics, and planning to minor in Cognitive Science. Before coming to UC Merced, Calvin dual-enrolled into his local community college while he was in high school, where he studied Business and Statistics.

For his Research Assistant role, Calvin conducts literature analysis and review to identify potential gaps and new information in data value in agriculture and IoT4Ag. Currently, he is doing research on the economic value of data in the data value chain of precision agriculture for IoT4Ag Project 31, while also aiding in the creation of visualizations with his colleagues.

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Alisha Nesslage graduated UC Merced expected in the Spring of 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Political Science.

Alisha worked in Thrust 3 of IoT4Ag on Project 31, led by Dr. Lisa Yeo and Dr. Catherine Keske, where she examined the intersection of information security and privacy within the agricultural sector. She presented a poster entitled Ag Data Value: A Scoping Literature Review at the 2022 IoT4Ag Annual Conference in Purdue. Presently, she pursues research on how the ethical principles proposed by the Belmont Report lend themselves to mitigating the social and environmental harms caused by function creeping of IoT technologies within precision ag. In addition, she is working on a project to identify how ethical principles can be used to advance climate resilience as it relates to the development, deployment, and accessibility of digital technologies.

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Jasmine Camacho started her undergraduate journey at the University of California, Merced in Fall 2021, pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science. As a research assistant in the Yeo Lab, she conducts data wrangling for the preliminary analysis of online harassment research led by Eujean Byun. Additionally, Jasmine is working with Dr. Ayat Hatem at California State University Stanislaus, applying graph analytics to analyze aviation data using machine learning.

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