Faculty Lead
Assistant Professor, CIS, Cornell
Aditya Vashistha is an Assistant Professor at Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. His research aims to design, build, and evaluate Globally Equitable AI technologies to improve socioeconomic outcomes for historically marginalized communities.
Faculty
Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
Jennifer Birkeland is a licensed landscape architect and a LEED accredited professional. She has worked on various national design competitions with renowned offices, including the winning design for the Washington Monument Grounds.
Assistant Professor, CIS, Cornell
Cristobal’s research focuses on the economic, strategic, and organizational implications of the technologies that are shaping the data economy.
Assistant Professor, CIS, Cornell
Nikhil Garg uses data science and algorithms to study democracy, markets, and societal systems. His research interests include the design of fair and efficient systems and the impact of technology on society.
Professor, Cornell CALS
Maria Goula is a licensed Architect and a Landscape Architect with a Ph.D. in Landscape Design Theory. For over 20 years she taught and worked professionally in Barcelona, Spain. She develops research on coastal tourism, with a focus on the interpretation and reinvention of leisure landscape patterns in an era of multiple uncertainties.
Professor and Chair, Department of Communication
Lee Humphreys studies how people adopt communication technologies. Her research explores the ways these technologies influence social interactions and communication patterns.
Associate Professor, CIS, Cornell
Rene Kizilcec studies the behavioral, psychological, and computational aspects of technology in education. His work informs practices and policies that promote learning, equity, and academic success.
Assistant Professor, CIS, Cornell
Allison Koenecke researches algorithmic fairness using computational methods to study societal inequities in various domains. Her work spans areas from online services to public health and is an expert on disparities in automated speech-to-text systems.
Associate Professor, CIS, Cornell
Daniel Susser focuses on ethics, politics, and policy in computing. He studies governance problems raised by new and emerging data-driven technologies and the underlying conceptual and normative problems that make it difficult to understand and tackle them.
Assistant Professor, CIS, Cornell
Gili Vidan’s research examines trust in digital technologies and the politics of cryptography and AI regulation. She explores how digital mediation impacts notions of authenticity and governance.
Associate Professor, CIS, Cornell
Matthew Wilkens develops and applies computational methods to study literary, cultural, and historical problems at scale. His work has focused on literary text mining, geolocation extraction, genre detection, and the cross-pollination of critical and social-scientific methods.