Xinru Page

Xinru Page is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Coordinator of Computer Science at Brigham Young University. She works in the field of Human-Computer Interaction and since joining BYU four years ago, founded the Social Technology and Privacy Lab where she has supervised 9 graduate and 78 undergraduate student researchers, resulting in 16 peer-reviewed publications with 28 unique BYU student coauthors. Her latest research focuses on Privacy, Social Media, Online Safety, Neurodiversity Online, Vulnerable Populations, Cross-Cultural Communication, Contact Tracing Apps, Internet of Things, Technology Adoption and Non Use, Individual and Developmental Differences Shaping Technology Use, Values in Design, and Human-Algorithm interaction. Over the past fifteen years, her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Facebook, Intel, Samsung, Disney Research, Yahoo!, the Danish Ministry for Science and Higher Education, amongst others. She has held many senior Editorial/Conference Organizing roles and is currently 2025 CSCW Papers Chair and Information Director for PACMHCI (her field’s top journal).

Xinru holds a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science with concentration in Informatics from University of California, Irvine, and a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science, specialization Human-Computer Interaction, from Stanford University. Xinru also spent several years working in the information risk industry leading interaction design and as a product manager. She been invited to speak at many industry, academic, and community venues, such as speaking on increasing social media safety by supporting neurodiverse communication styles at Foo Camp 2024 and conducting a series of statewide social media safety trainings for all service providers of the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services. Xinru is passionate about making research accessible and actionable through various initiatives, most recently as editor of Modern Socio-Technical Perspectives on Privacy, an open-access book that makes the latest privacy research freely and publicly available to practitioners, academics, and policy makers worldwide.