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Amanda Meng completed her PhD at the Georgia Institute of Technology in International Affairs at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 2016. Her research interests lie at the intersections of democracy, technology, and data activism. Her dissertation research investigated how social movements utilize open government data to make claims against the government. Amanda worked as a research scientist at the College of Computing from 2017 to 2020, where she focused on resident-led data collection projects in Atlanta, Georgia. She has a diverse background as both a practitioner and an academic, having spent time in the Dominican Republic (as a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from 2009-2011), India, Ghana, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Argentina, and Atlanta, studying and implementing projects aimed at enhancing democratic outcomes through the use of data and information communication technologies. Currently, she is a research faculty member at Georgia Tech's College of Computing, specifically within the School of Computer Science, and she brings a social science perspective to the Internet Outage Detection and Analysis project.
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