Giulia Frascaria

Giulia Frascaria

PhD Candidate · Media Change and Innovation

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Zurich

Interdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of computer science and communication science, with expertise in computational and interpretive methods applied to the study of emerging digital technologies and human–technology relations. My research focuses on human augmentation technologies, cyborg imaginaries, and the diffusion of digital innovations. I am currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Zurich and a member of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) Excellence Doctoral School.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles
Frascaria, G., Jaramillo-Dent, D., Latzer, M. 2026.
Adoption of Human Augmentation Technologies for Non-Medical Applications: A Systematic Review of Empirical Literature.
Taylor & Francis International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
Frascaria, G., Festic, N., Latzer, M. 2026.
Evolving User Profiles and Adoption of Cyborg Technologies: Evidence from a Repeated Cross-Sectional Study in Switzerland.
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2026
Iosup, A., Versluis, L., Trivedi, A., Van Eyk, E., Toader, L., Van Beek, V., Frascaria, G., Musaafir, A., Talluri, S. 2019.
The atlarge vision on the design of distributed systems and ecosystems.
IEEE 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
Workshop Articles
Frascaria, G. 2026.
Revisiting Alignment for Human–AI Integration: A Proposal for Centered Evaluation.
BiAlign Workshop Proceedings, ACM CHI 2026
Frascaria, G. 2020.
Griffin: A Storage Service for Granular Edge Applications.
Proceedings of the 21st International Middleware Conference Doctoral Symposium
Manuscripts in Preparation
Frascaria, G., Jaramillo-Dent, D., Latzer, M.
Cyborg Imaginaries and AI: A Computational Grounded Theory of Online Pioneer Community Discussions on Human Augmentation.
Frascaria, G., Jaramillo-Dent, D., Latzer, M.
Through the AI Looking Glass: Mapping AI-Generated Cyborg Visuality Through Visual Topic Modelling.
Ongoing project
Preprints
Lukken, C., Frascaria, G., Trivedi, A. 2021.
ZCSD: a computational storage device over zoned namespaces (ZNS) SSDs.
Frascaria, G., Trivedi, A., Wang, L. 2021.
A case for a programmable edge storage middleware.

Presentations

2025
Cyborg Imaginaries: A Computational Grounded Theory of Online Pioneer Community Discussions on Human Augmentation.
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference
2025
Adoption of Human Augmentation Technologies for Non-Medical Applications: A Systematic Review of Empirical Literature.
IAMCR Annual Conference
2025
Upgrading Humanity. Invited talk.
Nachtaktiv Museum Night, Zurich
2024
Adoption of Human Augmentation Technologies for Non-Medical Applications: A Systematic Review of Empirical Literature.
Mobile Communications Research Escalator, ICA Annual Conference
2021
In-Kernel Data Processing with eBPF.
ICTOpen
2020
BPF Tales, or why did I recompile the kernel just to average numbers?
Open Source Summit Annual Conference, The Linux Foundation
2020
Can BPF save us from the data deluge?
BPF Summit

Experience

University of Zurich

Instructor / Lecturer — Teaching overview →
Aug 2023 – Present

CNIT (National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications)

Expert Research Collaborator
Apr 2023 – Nov 2024

Oracle Labs Zurich

Research Intern
Nov 2021 – Mar 2022

MonetDB, Amsterdam

Software Developer and Technical Writer
Feb 2020 – Sep 2020

Fireeye (now Google Mandiant)

Student Intern
Jan 2018 – Dec 2018