Social sciences
FATE: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency & Ethics in AI
We study the complex societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP). Our aim is to facilitate computational techniques that are both innovative and responsible, while prioritizing issues of…
Project Torino
Torino is an inclusive physical programming language for children with vision impairments created by the Human Experience & Design group at Microsoft.
Antisocial Computing: Explaining and Predicting Negative Behavior Online
Antisocial behavior and misinformation are increasingly prevalent online. As users interact with one another on social platforms, negative interactions can cascade, resulting in complex changes in behavior that are difficult to predict. My research introduces…
Building a Machine that Can Learn to Understand, Reason and Learn
My talk will first briefly review recent advances in memory augmented neural nets and then present my own contribution, Neural Semantic Encoders (NSE). With a special focus on NSE, I show that external memory in…
Informal Social Networks in Firms
Informal communication networks within firms represent the connections among workers across which information and organizational learning are transferred, status is exchanged, and social, mentoring, and administrative relationships are shared. Despite wide attention to the implications…
The ‘Mastery’ of the Swipe: Smartphones and Precarity in a Culture of Narcissism
“What do you do when you’re waiting for the bus? Or waiting for a class to start? Or waiting at the doctor’s office? Or in line at the grocery store? In this paper, I establish…
