OUR TEAM

Our research team comes from diverse backgrounds and academic fields with a common goal to address privacy and ethics for big and pervasive data. To learn more about the project members, please explore our directory of principal investigators, PhD candidates, graduate assistants, and research support staff.

Principal Investigators

Matthew Bietz

Department of Informatics, University of California – Irvine

Focusing on the use of new forms of data in scientific research in order to inform the development of policy, practice, and cyberinfrastructure

Casey Fiesler

Department of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder

Addressing the challenges of non-legal-experts dealing with legal complexities in online spaces

Jacob Metcalf

Data & Society Research Institute

Focusing on efforts to develop ethics review capacity for data science in academia and industry alike

Arvind Narayanan

Computer Science, Princeton

Uncovering how companies collect and use our personal data

Katie Shilton

College of Information Studies, University of Maryland – College Park

Exploring ethics and policy for the design of information collections, systems, and technologies

Jessica Vitak

College of Information Studies, University of Maryland – College Park

Evaluating the privacy challenges faced by users, developers, and researchers when collecting and analyzing personal data

Michael Zimmer

Department of Computer Science, Marquette University

Focusing on online privacy, the ethical dimensions of social media and internet technologies, and internet research ethics

Collaborators

Jessica Pater

Human-Centered Computing, Georgia Tech

Focusing on how social computing technologies can impact everyday wellness and behavior.

Nicholas Proferes

College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky

Exploring users’ understandings of information flow on social media, tech discourse, and issues of power in the digital landscape.

Students

Eddie Chapman

PhD Student

Department of Computer Science, Marquette University

Brianna Dym

PhD Student

College of Media, Communication, and Information, University of Colorado, Boulder

Carlos Cortes Gutierrez

Undergraduate

Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine

Parker Scott

Undergraduate

Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine