Hana Frluckaj

I study equity in sociotechnical systems, with a focus on open source software communities. My work asks who gets to participate in collaborative software production — and why disparities persist even in communities that aspire toward openness.

I earned my Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin iSchool, advised by James Howison. Before that, I received my B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University with a minor in Human-Computer Interaction.

At CMU's CoEx Lab I worked with Laura Dabbish and James Herbsleb on newcomer retention, gender differences in open source trajectories, and code-of-conduct governance.