{"id":514,"date":"2016-02-16T14:18:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/?page_id=514"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:39:57","slug":"students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/people\/students\/","title":{"rendered":"Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"grid-section\"><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2019\/07\/TCahill.jpg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Tiernan Cahill<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> Digital and generative literatures, video games and virtual worlds, incivility and harassment in online communities<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2021\/10\/13411763_10154064597671539_4800472022656805270_o-Chawannuch-Chaikulngamdee-e1633547947854.jpg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Chawannuch Chaikulngamdee<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> How digital technologies can be used to promote diversity and inclusion, intercultural communication, Social media use and cultural identity formation<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2024\/12\/Yunxiao-Chen-Pro-e1733331443596.jpeg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Yunxiao (Caitlyn) Chen<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> STS (science, technology &#038; society), human-agent interaction, and sensor-mediated communication.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2025\/11\/self1.jpg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Master's Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Ziying (Darren) Chen<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> <span>Media Psychology; Communication Theory; Emotion and Media Effects; Human\u2013Machine Communication; Algorithmic Trust; Fear, Anxiety, and Immersion; Narrative Empathy; Moral Psychology; Strategic and Crisis Communication; Trust Restoration; Entertainment and Game Studies; Affective Media; Emerging Media Technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2023\/09\/JamesCrissman-scaled.jpg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">James Crissman<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> Visual communications, information accessibility and governance, misinformation, and algorithmic injustice<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-25-at-1.57.18-PM-636x605.png><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Benita Dederichs<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> Human-computer interaction, virtual reality (especially cinematic virtual reality), agenda-setting within the framework of international political communication<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2025\/09\/1173757502344_.pic_hd-2.jpeg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Master's Student, Marketing Communication<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Tianqi Feng<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> Environmental communication, scientific misinformation and disinformation, psychological responses to media messages, computational methods, loyalty programs in the hospitality &amp; tourism industry<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2025\/02\/WechatIMG1170.jpg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Lara Guvelioglu<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> Ethical integration of AI, algorithmic curation, creative industries, and societal impact of emerging technologies. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2022\/08\/4A487EDA-6436-4687-945C-76DB2EB48213-Nicole-Hash-scaled.jpeg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Nicole Hash<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> Political communication <\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2025\/12\/headshot-Cherry.jpg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, <span>Emerging Media Studies<\/span><\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Qixuan (Cherry) He<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests: <\/strong>Media psychology; Gender and stereotypes; Female political communication; Human\u2013AI interaction; Experimental and computational methods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2023\/04\/Jia.png><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, <span>Emerging Media Studies<\/span><\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Yihan (Danny) Jia<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>Positive media psychology, video games, virtural reality, cognitive message processing, immersive media and wellbeing <\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2025\/11\/Chang-Liu_Headshot.jpg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Master's Student, <span>Emerging Media Studies<\/span><\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Chang Liu<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests: <\/strong><span>Human-Computer Interaction, Media Psychology, Digital Culture and Participatory Media, Computational Methods<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2025\/11\/989672c9b45b0ce48dd57d7a298e5577.jpg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Master's Student, <span>Emerging Media Studies<\/span><\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Ruochen (Anastasia) Lyu<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests: <\/strong>Conversational agents, parasocial relationships with social chatbots, computational social science, and visual politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2021\/10\/Ekaterina-Novozhilova-e1633547317924.jpeg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\"><span>Ekaterina Novozhilova<\/span><\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> Human-machine interaction, AI and creativity, media effects<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2023\/09\/LilianNaaKorkoi.jpg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Lilian Naa Korkoi Tackie<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> <span> Misinformation and Disinformation in Emerging Media, Fact-Checking using A.I. and machine learning<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2023\/09\/JessyWang.png><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\"> Jessy (Jiaxin) Wang<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> <span>Media Psychology and Mental health, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Effects of Emerging Media<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2025\/02\/WechatIMG1171.jpg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Max Wong<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> Video game user-generated content, creator economy, and gender norms in online spaces. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2025\/10\/Jing_Profile-Pic.jpg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Jing Yang<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> Political communication, computational social science, social media<\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2025\/12\/RA.jpg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Master's Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Miaomiao Yang<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> <span>Video games and entertainment media studies; humanized AI-generated texts and computational creativity; human\u2013computer interaction; marketing communication and consumer behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-sm-two-third \"><aside class=\"callout-square bg-lightpurple col-sm-full\"><div class=\"callout-image\"><img src=\/crc\/files\/2025\/09\/MohanZhang_Headshot.jpg><\/div><div class=\"callout-content\"><span class=\"meta\">Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies<\/span><h3 class=\"callout-title\">Patrick Mohan Zhang<\/h3><p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> <span>The psychology of diverse media interfaces and entities<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside><\/div><\/p>\n<p><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10949,"featured_media":0,"parent":511,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6462,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions\/6462"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}