My research explores ways to more adequately remediate AI system harms through understanding, centering, and supporting the agency and resistance of everyday people who use and are most impacted by algorithmic systems. I am on the job market for academic or industry research positions starting in 2026.
I’m a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute where I’m advised by Ken Holstein. Previously, I have conducted research at Microsoft Research Montreal’s fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics (FATE) team with Su Lin Blodgett and Alexandra Olteanu, where I explored impacts of and interventions for anthropomorphic AI. My work has been published in top-tier computing venues including CHI, CSCW, FAccT, and ACL.
Before graduate school, I worked as a growth product manager at Noom and led digital product experimentation efforts for the Wall Street Journal and Barron’s at Dow Jones. I graduated from Brown University with an undergraduate degree in computer science and grew up in the Appalachian Mountains in Northeast Tennessee.
In my free time, I like to run, watch musicals, eat ice cream, and visit libraries. I also am a weaver who recently was artist-in-residence at Praxis Fiber Workshop’s Digital Weaving Lab.
HIGHLIGHTED PUBLICATIONS: (see more here)
Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu, & Su Lin Blodgett. A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies. CHI, 2025.
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Alicia DeVrio, Motahhare Eslami, & Kenneth Holstein. Building, Shifting, & Employing Power: A Taxonomy of Responses From Below to Algorithmic Harm. FAccT, 2024.
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Alicia DeVos, Aditi Dhabalia, Hong Shen, Kenneth Holstein, & Motahhare Eslami. Toward User-Driven Algorithm Auditing: Investigating users' strategies for uncovering harmful algorithmic behavior. CHI, 2022.
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Hong Shen*, Alicia DeVos*, Motahhare Eslami, & Kenneth Holstein. Everyday Algorithm Auditing: Understanding the power of everyday users in surfacing harmful algorithmic behaviors. CSCW, 2021.
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