Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Project: Divination Engines: A Media History of Text Prediction
Xiaochang Li is a doctoral candidate in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her dissertation, “Divination Engines: A Media History of Text Prediction,” traces the history of statistical modeling techniques in natural language processing and their role in the rise of “big data” analytics and machine learning as pervasive forms of knowledge work. More broadly, she is interested in the material, discursive, and epistemic arrangements that shape how we imagine, define, and coordinate cultural and computational practices. She holds an S.M. in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from NYU.