Hello! and welcome to my corner on the internet! ⋆｡°✩ I am a UC Berkeley alum passionate about human-computer interaction, community building, and accessible digital interfaces. Current Chief of Staff for sun robots :) say hello ~ ashleyfong@berkeley.edu ᵕ̈ or on X: https://x.com/ashleyyjoelle

Experience

Carnegie Mellon UniversityHCI Research

2024 — 2026

Pittsburgh, PA

Exploring Vision-Language Models (VLMS) and user interactions to enhance information accessibility for BLV Groups

U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) REU fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science

PlymouthCommunity Growth

2025 — 2025

San Francisco, California, United States

Powering all the best AI companies. I do social experiments for storytelling + community :)

Current customers include OpenAI, Anthropic, Midjourney, Replit, Langchain, Pika AI, RunwayML and 100+ more.

Pear VCFFC Fellow

2025 — 2025

San Francisco, CA

cohort for early stage technical founders

micro1Product Marketing Lead

2025 — 2025

San Francisco Bay Area

UC Berkeley School of InformationHCI Research

2024 — 2024

Berkeley, California, United States

Human-centered AI research on LLM trust dynamics, examining how conversational agents influence user confidence and decision-making, inspired by the Asch conformity paradigm.

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor's degree

UCLA

Bachelor's degree

University of Pennsylvania

Computer Science

UC Berkeley College of Engineering

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Education

Bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree

Computer Science

Experience