Cuihua Cindy Shen

Cuihua (Cindy) Shen is a Professor of Communication at the University of California, Davis, where she co-founded the Computational Communication Research lab. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (2010), following an M.A. from the National University of Singapore and a B.A. from Zhejiang University. Her research examines social media engagement, visual misinformation, political polarization in visual media, and the psychological mechanisms underlying online information consumption and well-being. Recent work explores climate change visual content across platforms, fact-checking label intensity, and live-streaming’s effects on well-being. She serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and Founding Associate Editor for Computational Communication Research, with funding from the National Science Foundation for projects on manipulated images and visual misinformation.