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Jasmine Lu

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PhD Student at UChicago in the Human Computer Integration Lab. she/her. ~Exploring alternative visions of the future with e-waste and computing~ https://jasminelu.site

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Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · 17d

✨I'm on the faculty job market! ✨

I’m a University of Chicago Computer Science PhD Candidate building more sustainable computing ecosystems 💻🌱

I develop computational approaches for reducing, reusing, and recycling e-waste (I like to call it recomputing e-waste)

read more: jasminelu.site
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On the left 'recomputing e-waste' with 'recycling, repairing, reusing, reducing' below it. On the right, a large lifecycle graph with mining, manufacturing, using, recycling, and discarding labeled. Green arrows coming out of and going back into the using node labeled repairing and reusing, with four images of projects alongside. An arrow for reducing from using to landfills with a project image. And finally, a label of full stack recycling with several arrows coming out and returning.

Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · 1d

Cella will be an incredible colleague and asset to any department! her work is so timely and meaningful. hire her!!!!!

Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 1d

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨

I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥

I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action

More info: cella.io

Cella M. Sum –

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11d

8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · 17d

I’m excited to continue exploring these ideas as faculty and am on the lookout for tenure-track positions. Please let me know of relevant openings! And if you want to support my job search, I would appreciate a repost ♻️

more details: jasminelu.site (7/7)

Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · 17d

I am grateful to have received an ACM @acm-sigchi.bsky.social Special Recognition for my work. You can read more about this and my approach to sustainable computing research in this lovely feature: cs.uchicago.edu/news/jasmine... (6/7)

cs.uchicago.edu

Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · 17d

Finally, I use tech as a medium to explore ideas of how tech *could* be designed. I engineered a 'living' smartwatch with slime mold (UIST'22). Users have to take care of the watch (feeding and watering it) in order for heart rate sensing to work.
youtu.be/Bex91KV56PQ
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Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · 17d

I also take a broad perspective on e-waste, engaging with it as a dynamic sociotechnical system. I've explored this in 'Unmaking E-waste' (TOCHI'24), using qualitative methods to explore the unique technical and material properties of e-waste.
youtu.be/hmwEQ4JcVtI
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Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · 17d

At CHI'25, I demonstrated ProtoPCB, a system I designed that uses computer vision to search for ways to retrofit new circuits onto existing e-waste PCBs. ProtoPCB encodes clever electronics engineering tricks to widen the search space for reuse!
youtu.be/XVVxmU2W1bI
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Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · 17d

I developed ecoEDA (UIST’23 paper, Best Paper Honorable Mention) to introduce a different way of designing electronics: by reusing components from e-waste. We encode strategies for reuse through suggested component swaps within the design editor.
youtu.be/XYMRXMVBfNg
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Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · 17d

✨I'm on the faculty job market! ✨

I’m a University of Chicago Computer Science PhD Candidate building more sustainable computing ecosystems 💻🌱

I develop computational approaches for reducing, reusing, and recycling e-waste (I like to call it recomputing e-waste)

read more: jasminelu.site
🧵 (1/7)

On the left 'recomputing e-waste' with 'recycling, repairing, reusing, reducing' below it. On the right, a large lifecycle graph with mining, manufacturing, using, recycling, and discarding labeled. Green arrows coming out of and going back into the using node labeled repairing and reusing, with four images of projects alongside. An arrow for reducing from using to landfills with a project image. And finally, a label of full stack recycling with several arrows coming out and returning.

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · Aug 28

What can #CSCW learn from tech workers who have been involved in collective action and unionization about how to make transformative change within our field?

My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question.

Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579

Screenshot of the CSCW 2025 paper "The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry"

CELLA M. SUM, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
ANNA KONVICKA, Princeton University, USA
MONA WANG, Princeton University, USA
SARAH E. FOX, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Abstract: The tech industry’s shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product managers, customer support specialists, QA analysts, logistics workers, gig workers, and union staff organizers. Our findings reveal that, contrary to popular narratives of prestige and privilege within the tech industry, tech workers face fragmented and unstable work environments which contribute to their disempowerment and hinder their organizing efforts. Despite these difficulties, organizers are laying the groundwork for a more resilient tech worker movement through community building and expanding political consciousness. By situating these dynamics within broader structural and ideological forces, we identify ways for the CSCW community to build solidarity with
tech workers who are materially transforming our field through their organizing efforts.

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · Aug 20

TOMORROW we rock the livestream with @xjasminelu.bsky.social , Silard Gal and Chris Dirks who will be telling us all about their extremely cool recently certified projects! Going live at 1pm EST on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJuA...

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 19

BLOOD IN THE MACHINE was given early access to survey data pulled from interviews with 1,400 Californians on their thoughts about AI.

Among the findings:

-59% think AI will primarily benefit corporations and the wealthy
-55% are more concerned than excited
-*70%* want strong AI laws

How California feels about AI

Spoiler: Not great. Plus, how AI is raising our electricity bills, the chatbot therapist that failed to intervene in a suicide, and what lays behind Grok's personas.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · Aug 1

for the unawares, monthly jobs reports explicitly exclude farm workers. so feel free to also mentally account for the impact of ICE hunting down agricultural laborers like runaway slaves

US undocumented farm workers feel ‘hunted like animals’ amid Trump’s immigration raids

Ice raids have caused workers to lose hours and income, and forced them into hiding at home, according to interviews

www.theguardian.com

Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · Aug 1

my work was covered so sweetly on a midwest public radio station (interlochen) check it out!! open.spotify.com/episode/1TNc...

My Little Slime

Points North · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · Jul 29

Want to work with one of the best thinkers out there, with endless creativity and super supportive environment in futuristic Taipei? 😎
My former PhD student, (now Prof.) @tengshanyuan.info just started the Dexterous Interaction Lab @ NTU lab.tengshanyuan.info #hci #haptics #phd #academicChatter 😍

Dextrerous Interaction lab, with three projects shown. On the left is a tactile device that allows you to feel touch on the fingerpad and yet keeps the fingerpad free (I know, mindblowing!), the middle is a force feedback glove with muscle stimulation that helps you play guitar, and the last is a sensory substitution device that allows you to see by feeling. All co-authored by Prof. Teng.

Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · Jul 30

@tengshanyuan.info is starting the Dexterous Interactions Lab at NTU! lab.tengshanyuan.info Shan-Yuan is a special case of kind, generous, and incredibly talented. Students will be so lucky to work with him. Excited to see all the beautiful work him and his team produce!

Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · Jul 8

uncomplicit.tech

NO AI FOR ATROCITY CRIMES

uncomplicit.tech

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · Jun 27

Just out: 'Resisting the Techno-Fascist Takeover: Are We Ready for Decomputing?' berlinergazette.de/resisting-th... in which I diagnose DOGE as institutional cyberattack and argue that the way to stop it spreading is to revive an alternative technopolitics.

Resisting the Techno-Fascist Takeover: Are We Ready for Decomputing?

Because they are based on centralization and abstraction, our current sociopolitical structures are susceptible to being replaced by AI. This is not only exemplified by the Department of Government Ef...

berlinergazette.de

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · Jun 24

Piazza is a course discussion platform used by many colleges and universities. Piazza requires students to provide the following information when signing up.

From 2017-2019, Palantir Technologies paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

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Grist @grist.org · Jun 20

Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas.

grist.org/energy/data-...

#Gas #DataCenters #AI #Climate #Elon #TX

Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas

Abigail Lindsey worries the days of peace and quiet might be nearing an end at the rural, wooded property where she lives with her son. On the old ranch across the street, developers want to build an ...

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ACM COMPASS @acmcompass.bsky.social · Jun 17

Announcing COMPASS'25 Workshops! Throughout the next few days we'll be posting about the 10 workshops. You can read about all of them here: compass.acm.org/compass-2025... Note: to attend workshops you must register for the conference (deadline: July 8th!)

Accepted Workshops – COMPASS

compass.acm.org

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ACM COMPASS @acmcompass.bsky.social · Jun 12

*FREE REGISTRATION OPPORTUNITY!* Send us your best t-shirt design for #COMPASS25 in order to win free registration for the conference (open to all). Submit by June 27 for consideration! Read more about the t-shirt design competition here: compass.acm.org/call-for-t-s...

Call for T-Shirt Design – COMPASS

compass.acm.org

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Jun 11

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

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ACM COMPASS @acmcompass.bsky.social · Jun 11

Announcing COMPASS'25 keynotes! We're so excited to host two incredible speakers
Renee Steiber will present "Participatory AI governance as a sustainability goal" and Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar will share "Why Designing with Place Matters in Technology Development"
more @ compass.acm.org/keynote-spea...

Photo of Renee Stiber

Photo of Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar

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ACM COMPASS @acmcompass.bsky.social · Jun 10

ACM COMPASS is now on bluesky! #COMPASS25 will be happening next month at the University of Toronto, Canada from July 22-25, 2025. Registration ends July 8th! Find more at: compass.acm.org

COMPASS – The ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies

compass.acm.org