Connie Chau receives HCI Google PhD Fellowship

Congratulations to Connie Chau, Ziyi Guo and Gefei Tan for receiving the 2025 Global Google PhD Fellowships!

The Google PhD Fellowships directly support graduate students as they pursue their PhD and was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields.

Connie is a student in the Technology and Social Behavior program at Northwestern, advised by Dr. Maia Jacobs in the NU-PATH Lab. She graduated from the Accelerated Master of Human-Computer Interaction (MHCI) program in December 2020 shortly after receiving a Bachelor in Humanities & Arts (BHA) in Economics and Music Harp Performance, with an additional major in HCI in May 2020—both from Carnegie Mellon University. 

She works with Colleen Norton, Director of Special Projects at The Network: Advocating Against Domestic Violence to co-design a novel just-in-time adaptive intervention to address secondary traumatic stress (STS) & burnout among frontline domestic violence (DV) workers. They've run a number of studies together including co-design workshops, digital health app feature exploration, and a longitudinal data collection on measures related to STS-burnout.

She was also named an MIT Rising Star in EECS this year as well. 

You can learn more about Connie's research and background here.