05/2026
I will be joining Stanford RegLab for 10 weeks as a Summer Institute Fellow!
I'm a fourth year PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania in the Computer and Information Science department. I am grateful to be advised by Professor Danaé Metaxa as a member of Penn HCI.
I employ mixed methods, including user studies and online experiments, to understand AI's impact on our information ecosystem, with a focus on news and politics. I also design sociotechnical audits of AI systems to measure their impact on individual and societal outcomes, and to inform interventions that address potential harms.
Before starting my PhD, I worked as a software engineer in the tech industry, first at Sisu Data, then at Apple. I earned both my MS in Computer Science and my BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. My work has been generously supported by an AWS gift for research in Trustworthy AI.
NEWS
12/2025
Presenting a poster evaluating GenAI’s impact on users’ search behaviors at the Eval Eval Workshop in San Diego.
06/2025
Attending alt-FAccT in New York.
04/2025
Attending News Futures Workshop at CHI in Yokohama, Japan.
11/2024
I will be attending CSCW in San Jose, Costa Rica to present our work, “Lower Quantity, Higher Quality Auditing News Content and User Perceptions on Twitter/X Algorithmic versus Chronological Timelines”.
08/2024
My paper with Shengchun Huang won First Place Faculty Paper, Political Communication Division at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)!
07/2024
I went to IC2S2 at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania to present work on auditing social media news feeds.
PUBLICATIONS
* indicates equal contribution
Admix: A Design Probe Exploring End-User Agency and Collective Interventions in Targeted Advertising
Stephanie Wang, Princess Sampson, Mialy Rasetarinera, Danaé Metaxa
Work in progress, .
Megha N. Govindu, Stephanie Wang, Sorelle Friedler, Danaé Metaxa
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2026.
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Jason Greenfield, Stephanie Wang, Samuel Jung, Sanjana Gautam, Kevin Yang, Danaé Metaxa
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2026.
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Stephanie Wang*, Shengchun Huang*, Alvin Zhou, Danaé Metaxa
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), 2024.
[ PDF | Blog post | Penn coverage ]
TEACHING
University of Pennsylvania
Head TA, Human-Computer Interaction. Sp 2024.
Stanford University
TA, Probabilistic Graphical Models. Wi 2018, Wi 2019.
TA, Natural Language Understanding. Sp 2018.