Fatima Albrehi is a master's student at Western Michigan University and expects to graduate in May 2019. Her research interests primarily lie within the inspections of interpersonal communication, intercultural communication, and rhetorical studies. She is excited to work within the Social Robotics Lab as a graduate researcher to gain a better understanding of human machine communication.
Graduate Research Assistants
Fatima Albrehi Research Assistant |
Matthew Craig Research assistant Matthew Craig is a Master’s student in Communication at Western Michigan University. Outside academia, he has various experiences in the nonprofit and political industries. Matthew’s research interests primarily revolve around neurophysiological communication phenomena, machine-human communication, and intercultural communication specifically related to post-structuralist and post-positivist paradigms. |
Xianlin Jin Research Assistant Xianlin Jin is a PhD student in Communication Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is also a member of Integrated Research on Disaster and Risk Young Scientist Programme. Xianlin’s research primarily focuses on health communication, disaster and risk communication. Xianlin is interested in exploring the communication between social robotics and human beings during the risk information seeking process. |
Adam Rainear research assistant Adam M. Rainear is an Ph.D student in the Department of Communication at the University of Connecticut. Adam’s research interests are focused primarily in the fields of risk and science communication, with a specific focus on communicating the weather and climate to the public. His current research projects examine using new technology, such as robots and virtual reality, to effectively communicate risky and science-related messages, in addition to other projects which examine social media as a risk communication tool. His most recent publications have appeared in Computers in Human Behavior, Communication Research Reports, and Weather, Climate, & Society. |
Mackenzie Richardson Research assistant Mackenzie Richardson is a second year MA student at Western Michigan University researching credibility in robots as well as interpersonal relationships in online environments including relationship initiation on social media and online dating platforms |
Edwin Wang Research Assistant Edwin Wang is a PhD student in Communication Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is interested in mobile communication and media psychology, especially how communication technology could facilitate (or hamper) people’s social life, social well-being, and public engagement. He received his B.A. & M.A. in literature at Beijing Normal University and his M.S. in media studies at the University of Oregon. Outside of academia, he had worked for an IT company as a marketing specialist for ten years. |