ABOUT DR. RO
I’m Annisa M.P. Rochadiat, Ph.D. — professionally known as Dr. Ro — a Communication Studies professor, mixed-methods researcher, former journalist, educator, and public scholar.
Most students and readers know me as Dr. Ro.
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A career shaped by questions, classrooms, and public conversation.
Before university life, I worked as a journalist at The Jakarta Post. Interviewing public figures, writing features on deadline, and editing for web publication trained me to listen closely, verify claims, synthesize quickly, and write for people beyond specialist rooms.
Today, I am an Assistant Professor of Communication at California State University, Stanislaus. I study human–AI interaction, social media, trust, identity, platform behavior, and technology adoption while teaching students how to design, evaluate, and communicate research responsibly.
THE WORK, IN PRACTICE
Research, teaching, journalism, and public writing belong to the same conversation.
Research
Qualitative and mixed-method inquiry into identity, trust, relationships, social media, AI, learning, and belonging.
Teaching
Courses and mentoring that invite students to notice how communication, power, and technology organize everyday life.
Journalism
A foundation in listening, verification, accessible explanation, and respect for the complexity of other people’s accounts.
Public writing
Essays and commentary that keep scholarly nuance while welcoming readers into the question.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor of Communication
California State University, Stanislaus · 2021–present
Leads mixed-methods research on human–AI interaction, social media, trust, identity, platform behavior, and technology adoption; serves as principal investigator on grant-funded generative-AI research; teaches across nine Communication Studies courses; and serves on the University Institutional Review Board.
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Richmond · 2019–2020
Taught undergraduate courses and an advanced seminar in interpersonal and computer-mediated communication, guiding students through full-cycle research design, data collection, analysis, and evidence-based presentation.
Graduate Research Assistant
Wayne State University · 2013–2019
Designed quantitative and qualitative studies within an NSF-funded program on online-dating decisions, including experiments, interview studies, statistical analysis, thematic analysis, peer-reviewed writing, and research-lab operations.
Journalist
The Jakarta Post · 2007–2009
Interviewed local and national public figures, produced feature stories on daily deadlines, and managed review, editing, and web publication.
Education
Ph.D., Communication — Wayne State University, 2019
M.A., Communication — Wayne State University, 2015
M.A., International Relations & Diplomacy — Leiden University, 2006
B.A. with Merit, Political Science & Southeast Asian Studies — National University of Singapore, 2002
Selected scholarly work
“The outsourcing of online dating” — Social Media + Society (2020)
“Online dating and courtship among Muslim American women” — New Media & Society (2017)
Experimental research on false-information cues and perceived information quality — Mass Communication & Society (2021)
Research on organ-donation attitudes among underrepresented communities — Howard Journal of Communications (2023)
Six peer-reviewed publications total, including a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication.
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