Anastasia (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in UX Design in the School of Applied and Creative Computing with a courtesy appointment in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Her work explores how to support equitable design of technology and design education through design justice and co-design and participatory design approaches in the human-computer interaction and human-robot interaction fields, working with technologists, co-designers, and policy-makers.
Before joining Purdue University, Anastasia was a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots Group and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing's Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC). She completed a PhD in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab with a focus on equitable technology design and received her master's (2017) and bachelor (2016) degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan with a focus on engineering design processes and idea generation.
