Yigang Qin [ɪgʌn tʃɪn]

I'm a third-year PhD student in Information Science and Technology at Syracuse University, working with Dr. EunJeong Cheon.

My research areas are Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Science and Technology Studies (STS). I draw on insights from sociology, anthropology, geography, and informatics to ask questions about the political economy of digital technologies in the global contexts. I study the process of producing as well as consuming technical systems, focusing on three mechanisms:

• (1) how technologies function in capitalist labor process of production;
• (2) how technologies are produced and constructed as values for societal good;
• (3) how technical development and consumption rely on social reproduction and inequalities.

The way I approach to these questions are interpretive and critical in general — sometimes ethnomethodological, sometimes comparative and theoretical. The approach structures how I conduct interviews, fieldwork, and document analysis.

My work received several awards in leading HCI conferences, including Honorable Mention Award in Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), and Recognition for Contribution to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2024). I also present at meetings of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

Yigang Qin
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