Spring 2022
Angela Stewart
February 25th, 2022
Title: Scales of Change: Intelligent Systems to Support Social Learning (access)
Angela Stewart is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, working under Dr. Amy Ogan. She create socio-technical interventions for more equitable and inclusive educational spaces.
Sheena Erete
February 18th, 2022
Title: Co-designing Technologies, Practices, and Policies to Counter Structural Oppression (access)
Sheena Erete is currently an associate professor in the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University. She is also an educator, designer, and community advocate, whose research focuses on co-designing socio-cultural technologies, practices, and policies with community residents to amplify their local efforts in addressing issues such as violence, education, civic engagement and health.
Maarten Sap
February 11th, 2022
Title: Detecting and Rewriting Socially Biased Language (access)(recording)
Maarten Sap is a Postdoc/Young Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), working on project Mosaic, and will be starting as an assistant professor at CMU's LTI department. His research focuses on endowing NLP systems with social intelligence and social commonsense, and understanding social inequality and bias in language.
Margaret Hu
February 4th, 2022
Title: Self-Coup, Soft Coup, Silent Coup (access)
Margaret Hu is Professor of Law and International Affairs at Penn State Law and School of International Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include the intersection of national security, cybersurveillance, and AI and civil rights.
Robin Berjon
January 28th, 2022
Title: Digital Advertising, Privacy, and Competition (access)(recording)
Robin Berjon is an expert in Web technology with almost two decades’ worth of experience in both Web development and driving standardization efforts, notably within W3C. He is in charge of data governance at The New York Times.
Faculty host: Madelyn Sanfilippo
Fall 2021
In Fall 2020, this series was co-hosted by Jana Diesner and Nigel Bosch.