Prof. Yao is a Principal Investigator of the The Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  The lab brings together student researchers interested in technology-mediated social behavior to study how features and affordances of technology enable or constrain people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Verity Winship’s academic interests are in the area of business law and complex litigation. Specifically, her research focuses on corporate litigation, securities enforcement, and disputes that cross legal systems. Her articles have appeared in such journals as the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, and the Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation. Professor Winship is chair of the AALS securities regulation section (2016-17) and is on the executive committee of the AALS civil procedure section.

Lesley Wexler joined the Illinois Law School faculty in fall 2010, teaching torts, laws of war and international environmental law. Before coming to Illinois, Professor Wexler taught at the Florida State University College of Law. Prior to teaching at Florida State, she spent two years at the University of Chicago Law School as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer on Law.

David Tewksbury is the Executive Associate Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Professor of Communication. He earned his Ph.D. in Communication in 1996 from the University of Michigan. His research interests include the political effects of new communication technologies, the cognitive processing of media messages, and audience news consumption behaviors. With Jason Rittenberg, he wrote News on the Internet: Information and Citizenship in the 21st Century, published by Oxford University Press.