Caifan Du

Caifan Du's research centers around how evolving computing technologies mediate, impact, or transform labor practices and experiences in knowledge work. In the past, she investigated the expert labor of building and maintaining scientific software and worked on developing sociotechnical interventions to increase the visibility of the underacknowledged software work in scholarly knowledge production. Her current research aims to better understand how to better support knowledge work, especially as emerging technologies are reconfiguring knowledge-making practices and power relations in knowledge production. She is particularly interested in the issue of equity in the changing sociotechnical environment of knowledge work. Before embarking on an academic journey, she worked as a data analyst in the airline industry.