# Ashley F.

> exploring something new :)

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ashleyf

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

## Work Experience
### HCI Research @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2024 – Jan 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

### Community Growth @ Plymouth
Jan 2025 – Jan 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.

### FFC Fellow @ Pear VC
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, CA
cohort for early stage technical founders

### Product Marketing Lead @ micro1
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area

### HCI Research @ UC Berkeley School of Information
Jan 2024 – Jan 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.

### Research Fellow @ Contrary
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, CA
Crafted in-depth reports on product viability, market, size, competition, and traction for private companies. I focused on deep tech.

### Engineering Research @ Columbia University
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, NY
exploring multimodal inputs and outputs for C4 Quadriplegic individuals @ Computer Graphics User Interface Lab under Dr. Steven Feiner

U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) REU fellow at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS)

### CSRMP @ Google
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, CA
HCI + data visualization with Google Research

### Research Associate @ NASA Ames Research Center
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California
asteroid risk assessment + lots of decision theory

### Product @ Syllable
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States
product design engineer

### Computer Science Summer Institute Scholar (CSSI) @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California
met my go-to hackathon buddy here

#CodeWithGoogle @ g.co/cssi

### Intern @ The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York City Metropolitan Area


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cognitive Science
UCLA

### Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania

### UC Berkeley College of Engineering


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashleyjoelle

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Last updated: 2026-04-13