Anastasia (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in UX Design in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology 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.