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Highlights of recent and forthcoming activities:

• Oct 25 [Award] Paper, “AI, Normality, and Oppressive Things” (co-authored with Linus Ta-Lun Huang) won a Best Paper Award at the AIES (AAAI/ACM conference on AI, Ethics, and Society)! Read the extended abstract here.
• Oct 2025 [Talk] Invited as a panelist at UCHI’s interdisciplinary symposium, “What Are We Talking About When We Talk About AI?” [Coverage in UConn Today]
• Oct 2025 [Talk] Present my recent research: “Reimagining AI- How We Talk About AI and Why It Matters?” at UConn Stamford’s Philosophy Talk Series
• Sep 2025 [Interview] Featured in the first episode on “Justice” in the podcast series, “What Are We Talking About When We Talk About AI?” hosted by UCHI.
• July 2025 [Job] Become an affiliated faculty member with the Department of Social and Critical Inquiry at UConn!
• June 2025 [Talk] Present my co-authored paper, “AI, Normality, and Oppressive Things,” at the ACM FaccT Conference 2025 in Athens, Greece.
• June 2025 [Talk] Present my paper, “Moving Up or Moving Out: A Structural Analysis of the Norm of Academic Mobility,” at the Workshop on Gender and Philosophy (WOGAP) at MIT
• June 2025 [Professional development] Attend The Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women* in Philosophy.
• Apr 2025 [Talk] Invited to present at the Southern Workshop on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies (SWEET) at the University of Florida.
• Mar 2025 [Grant] Grant proposal, “Reimagining AI: Global AI Narratives on Social Media across the Global North and South” (collaborative with Jiyoun Suk), received the inaugural Human-Centered AI Seed Grant ($6,000 total) from the UConn Humanities Institute (UCHI)
• Mar 2025 [Talk] “How do we talk about AI? Why does that matter?” Panel on “Philosophy and the Resurgence of Fascism,” Department of Philosophy, UConn
• Jan 2025 [Grant] Key faculty of the “Human-Centered AI Team” to receive a 2-year grant ($94,000) from the Strategic Initiative for Multidisciplinary Research program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UConn
• Jan 2025 [Grant] Two new course proposals, “Markets, Ethics, and Society” and “Ethics of Technology and Engineering,” are both awarded the Provost’s Common Curriculum Grant ($6,000 each; $12,000 in total)
• Jan 2025 [Teaching] Teaching my first graduate seminar in Spring 2025: Phil 5350 Seminar in Recent Social and Political Philosophy: Sociotechnical Perspectives on AI.
• Jan 2025 [Talk] Invited to present at the “Interdisciplinary Workshop on Human-Centered AI: How do we Connect?” (organized by UConn & International University of Rabat, Morocco) [video recording]
• Dec 2024 [Talk] Invited to present my paper, “AI, Normality, and Oppressive Things,” at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Dec 2024 [Publication] My paper, “Acting Together to Address Structural Injustice: A Deliberative Mini-Public Proposal,” is published in the edited volume, Law, Politics, and Responding to Injustice (Routledge), edited by Kevin Walton, Wojciech Sadurski, and Coel Kirkby
• Oct 2024 [Mentoring] Led a mentoring workshop on “Doing academic conferences,” organized by the PGSA at UConn
• Oct 2024 [Talk] Presented my paper, “Democratizing AI” and the Concern of Algorithmic Injustice, at the AAAI/ACM conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES)
• Sep 2024 [Talk] Invited to present my paper at the International Workshop on Philosophy and Ethics of AI, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (virtual presentation)
• Aug 2024 [Teaching] Teaching two undergraduate courses in my first semester at UConn (Fall 2024): Phil 1104 Philosophy and Social Ethics and Phil 3218 Feminist Theory.
• Aug 2024 [Job] Officially started as Assistant Professor in Philosophy at UConn!
• Aug 2024 [Publication] My paper, “’Democratizing AI’” and the Concern of Algorithmic Injustice” is officially published in Philosophy & Technology
• Jul 2024 [Service] Began a 3-year service on the Board of Directors for the North America Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA)
• Jun 2024 [Talk] Invited to present my paper at the Workshop on Political Philosophy and AI, Australian National University
• Jun 2024 [Mentoring] Organized and hosted a webinar on academic journal publications with the Journey of Philosophy mentoring project [event write-up in Mandarin]
• May 2024 [Publication] My paper, “Analytic Philosophy in Taiwan: Impact Within and Beyond Academia,” came out in the Spring 2024 issue of the APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies, with the special issue theme: “On the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy in East Asia
• Mar 2024 [Publication] My paper, “Sexual Violence and Two Types of Moral Wrongs,” is officially published in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
• Apr 2024 [Public] My public piece, “What’s Democratic About ‘Democratizing AI’?” (co-authored with Diana Acosta-Navas, Henrik Kugelberg, Lorenzo Manuali, Rhiannon Neilsen, and Rob Reich) is out in The New Paradigm: A Magazine of Global Perspectives
• Apr 2024 [Talk] As the invited speaker for the Minorities and Philosophy Speaker Series, organized by the Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) chapter at Georgia State University. Topic: “Moving Up or Moving Out: A Structural Analysis of the Norm of Academic Mobility“
• Feb 2024 [Talk] Invited as a panelist for “On Being an Asian / Asian American Woman in Philosophy,” organized by the APA committee on the Status of Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies, at the Central APA meeting; my topic: “Moral Load and Being an Asian Woman in Philosophy”
• Jan 2024 [Teaching] Teaching an intro-level course, “Introduction to Global Justice” at Stanford University during Winter 2024 
• Nov 2023 [Talk] Commented at Workshop on Sociotechnical AI Safety, Stanford, USA
• Nov 2023 [Event] Co-organized (with Diana Acosta-Navas) a cross-disciplinary workshop, “Beyond Moderation: How can we use technology to de-escalate political conflict?” at Stanford University
• Oct 2023 [Talk] Invited to give a talk on my paper-in-progress, “Democratizing AI”: A Suitable Response to Algorithmic Injustice?, at PhilMod
• Sep 2023 [Talk] Invited to give a talk on my paper-in-progress, Rethinking: “Democratizing AI,” at the Forum in Ethics, Law, and Society, Sonoma State University. [video recording]
• Sep 2023 [Talk] Invited as a plenary speaker at the 7th Public Philosophy Network Conference: Facing Technology, UC Santa Cruz