Kyla Yein
Ph.D Student, Cinema and Media Studies
Kyla Yein is a first year Cinema and Media Studies PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is pursuing Digital Humanities and Writing Pedagogy graduate certificates. Her research focuses on AI-driven media and technology such as biometrics and algorithms using critical AI studies, data feminist, and science and technology studies lenses. She is interested in how technology uses computer vision to surveil, measure, quantify, and datify the human body, shaping our understanding of bodies and embodied experiences. She is a 2023-2025 Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Fellow and an editor for the Journal of Technology and Pedagogy. She holds a B.S. in Biology (concentration in genomics and health) from Loyola Marymount University and an M.A. in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA.
Research Interests
Science and technology studies, critical AI studies, computational media studies, surveillance, biometrics, computer vision, data feminism, media art
Education
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies (in progress)
MA, Cinema and Media Studies
BS, Biology
