Danah Boyd
(incoming) Professor at Cornell University, Dept. of Communication
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDanah Boyd is a sociotechnical researcher and incoming Professor at Cornell’s Department of Communication who builds empirical foundations for better decision-making at the intersection of technology and society. With over a decade of research leadership—founding and helming the Data & Society Research Institute and serving as a long-time Partner Researcher at Microsoft—she focuses on data quality, fairness/accountability/transparency in machine learning, differential privacy, and the civic implications of large-scale data like the census. A prolific public intellectual, she regularly publishes books and speaks widely, and she has helped institutionalize digital ethics through roles at Georgetown, NYU, and the Social Science Research Council. Her background pairs technical training in computer science and media arts (Brown, MIT, UC Berkeley) with a practical knack for turning sociotechnical insight into policy and organizational impact.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Information, Ph.D. Information at University of California, BerkeleyM.S. Media Arts and Sciences, M.S. Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyA.B. Computer Science, A.B. Computer Science at Brown UniversityGithub contributions (3)
giladlotan/itpmssd
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:62 commits, 61 pushes in 2 months
giladlotan/surveillancesociety
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes in 2 days
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