Welcome!
My name is Jordyn Young and I am a PhD student in Information Science at Drexel University. I am advised by Dr. Andrea Forte in the Social Computing Research Group. Prior to graduate school, I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania where I worked with Dr. Melissa Hunt. My research examines the impact of our increasingly digital lives. I’m particularly interested in human-computer interaction, social computing, and computational social science.
Want to chat or explore opportunities to collaborate? Feel free to contact me!
News
April 2023: Invited to join Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the international honor society for computing and information disciplines.
April 2023: Attending the 2023 ACM CHI Conference as an author for a conference publication and a workshop paper!
March 2023: Accepted workshop paper for Combating Toxicity, Harassment, and Abuse in Online Social Spaces: A Workshop at CHI 2023.
January 2023: Selected to attend the 2023 Computing Research Association’s Grad Cohort for Women.
August 2022: Selected to attend the 2022 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
June 2022: Attending the 2022 conference for The Society for Digital Mental Health.
May 2022: Attending the 2022 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
April 2022: Selected to attend the Women in Analytics Conference (WiAC) by Meta.
January 2022: Selected to attend the 2022 Computing Research Association’s Grad Cohort for Women.
October 2021: Attending the 24TH ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2021)
October 2021: Joined the MultiFi Team at Berkadia as a UX Research Intern.
September 2021: Joined Drexel University as a PhD student in Dr. Andrea Forte’s Social Computing Research Group.
August 2021: Selected to attend the 2021 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
July 2021: Awarded the Grad Network Community Impact Fellowship through the Jewish Graduate Student Network.
April 2021: Awarded the Gold Fellowship from Drexel’s Graduate College!
May 2019: Graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.
