Thao Phan

Feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS) researcher specialized in the study of gender and race in algorithmic culture. She is a Research Fellow in the Australian research Council's Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society and the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, Australia. Thao has published on topics including the aesthetics of digital voice assistants, big-data-driven techniques of racial classification, and the commercial capture of AI ethics research. Her writing appears in journals such as Big Data & Society, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Science as Culture, Cultural Studies, and more, and she is the co-editor of the volumes An Anthropogenic Table of Elements (University of Toronto Press, 2022) and Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of 'Ethics' in AI (Institute of Network Cultures, 2022). She is a member of the Australian Academy of Science’s National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and is the co-founder of AusSTS—Australia’s largest network of STS scholars.