Thao Phan

Thao Phan is a Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making & Society and the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University. She received her PhD in the Media and Communications program at the University of Melbourne. Thao is a feminist STS researcher who specialises in the study of gender and race in algorithmic culture. She has researched and published on topics including: the aesthetics of digital voice assistants like Siri, Amazon Echo, and Google Home; ideologies of ‘post-race’ in algorithmic culture; and AI in popular culture.