Hong Qu

Hong is a first year student working with Professor David Lazer as a member of the Lazer Lab.  He has a liberal arts BA from Wesleyan University and a MS in Information Science (focus on HCI and NLP) from UC Berkeley.  He plans to investigate online civic organizing networks, specifically for participatory norm-setting and policymaking to regulate emerging technologies such as ML/AI.  Hong has worked in Silicon Valley for YouTube/Google and also in journalism as a technologist and researcher.