Shazeda Ahmed is a Ph.D. student in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on how Chinese citizens interact with technology that teaches them about China's social credit system, and how private tech firms cooperate with the state in producing the technological infrastructure of the social credit system. Previously, she has worked as a researcher for the Citizen Lab, the Mercator Institute for China Studies, and the Ranking Digital Rights corporate transparency review by the New America Foundation.