Jacob Thebault-spieker
Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Thebault-Spieker is an assistant professor and researcher with 12 years of experience studying how social computing systems produce and perpetuate geographic and socioeconomic bias. Based at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s iSchool, he blends empirical measurement and design-oriented work to understand platforms like TaskRabbit, Uber, OpenStreetMap, and Wikipedia. His PhD and GroupLens background give him deep expertise in crowdsourced systems and disparity analysis, informed by a postdoc at Virginia Tech and industry research at IBM Almaden. He is particularly interested in practical mitigation strategies that intervene in platform dynamics rather than only diagnosing problems, bridging academic rigor with actionable design insights.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of MinnesotaBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Spanish, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Spanish at University of Minnesota Morris
English, Spanish
Github Skills (47)
pysal8
topology8
topological-data-analysis8
meta8
plpgsql7
spatial6
mapzen6
geospatial-analysis6
topojson6
mvt6
spatial-analysis6
fltk5
map-tiles5
cartography5
leaflet5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jaketangosierra/jtsmn.github.io
Sep 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:104 commits, 285 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
crowd-lab/distributed_social_translucence
Apr 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:8 PRs, 82 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
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