Angjelin Hila

Angjelin is a first year PhD student at the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, under the guidance of Professor Elliott Hauser. Angjelin holds a BA in Philosophy & MI in Culture & Technology from the University of Toronto.

Angjelin is interested in researching the effects of digital environments and computational augmentation including artificial intelligence on human agency with a specific focus on goal-directed and norm-laden behavior. In particular, he seeks to situate traditional approaches to decision and rational choice theory within the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) from the perspectives of embodied cognition, active-inference theory, and affective neuroscience. He enlists methods from data science, natural language processing (NLP) and social science to investigate the emergence of informational salience and decision patterns at individual and aggregate interaction scales. His academic interests include intentionality, social ontology, collective action problems, causal inference, network theory, information theory and complex systems theory. 

Professionally, Angjelin has worked in digital innovation within libraries developing and teaching workshops in data science, machine learning, artificial neural networks, data visualization, network theory, and web design. In his free time, Angjelin is a writer and visual artist.