Dr. Ioana Jucan is a scholar, artist, and writer, working across the fields of performance, media studies, and philosophy. She is an Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Inquiry at Emerson College, where she leads the Data Fluencies Theatre Project, a part of the broader Mellon-funded Data Fluencies Project, and the Critical & Creative AI Studies Lab.  She is the author of the award-winning Malicious Deceivers: Thinking Machine and Performative Objects (Stanford University Press, 2023). Her artistic work spans multimedia performance, theatre directing, creative writing, and installation, and has been performed internationally.