Team

Sofia Jaime is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, where she studies the intersection of technology, inequality, and race with demographic and computational social sciences methodologies. Her research combines quantitative methods and sociological theory to examine how fairness is assessed and biases are mitigated in AI systems. She is the co-author of “Ethnic Classifications in Algorithmic Fairness: Concepts, Measures and Implications in Practice” (ACM Digital Library, 2024). Sofia also organized Women in Data Science (WiDS) Munich 2023, bringing together international voices to advance equity in data science and AI. To know more about her background as a User Experience and Scientific researcher, visit her website or contact her at sofiaj2@uci.edu 

Chris Chih-Hua Tseng is a sociology Ph.D. student at UC Irvine. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Research Institute for Democracy, Society, and Emerging Technologies (DSET), a government-funded think tank in Taiwan. Previously, he worked at the RAND Corporation as a summer associate and at the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan’s unicameral congress, as a legislative assistant. He is a comparative-historical sociologist studying political economy, political sociology, and contentious politics. His current research focuses on export controls and the semiconductor industry, and his past research explored topics of social movements in democratic countries facing external threats and welfare state transformation in East Asia. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sociology from the National Taiwan University. 

Xinyue Wei is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her current research focuses on the legibility of state capacity, development, and inequality. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked with UNICEF, where she contributed to efforts aimed at closing the digital divide in early childhood development—particularly in post-conflict settings—and supported displaced parents and children through digital learning platforms. Her past research has also examined the protection of children’s online privacy in China. Xinyue holds a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature and an M.A. in International Relations from Fudan University.