Tina Zeng is a sophomore studying Global Affairs + Computing, Culture & Society. With her passions in public interest technology, democratic innovation and social entrepreneurship, she hopes to leverage technologies like AI for social impact. She aspires to pursue a career in public service that contributes to policy and legal frameworks that safeguard our civil liberties in the digital age. She currently interns with the community data organization, DataHaven, as a Dwight Hall Urban Fellow, and she serves as a Student AI Liaison for the Poorvu Center. As a Dahl Scholar at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies, she researches NYC Community Boards using AI-driven computational and qualitative research methods. In the past summer, she worked on research on AI Visual Question Answering systems for blind users at UMD’s Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society.
