Luc Rocher
Associate Professor
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorLuc Rocher is an Associate Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute with 15 years of experience studying sociotechnical systems and algorithmic governance through a human-centered computing lens. He directs doctoral training in Social Data Science, holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, and has progressed rapidly from lecturer to senior research fellow and programme director within Oxford. His background spans top research institutions including MIT Media Lab, Imperial College London, and UCLouvain, where his PhD and visiting appointments shaped interdisciplinary methods bridging computation, social science, and policy. Luc combines rigorous academic scholarship with practical leadership in research programmes, and is noted for translating complex algorithmic issues into accessible, data-driven insights for governance and societal impact.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
121reputation
5kreached
8answers
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Github Skills (200)
parallel10
python10
toolbox10
data-manipulation10
metadata10
ray10
creative-commons10
optimization10
sublime-text10
dataframes10
pandas10
statistics10
data-science10
textmate10
mutual-information10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
computationalprivacy/observatory
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
computationalprivacy/bandicoot
Apr 2015 - Jan 2021
an open-source python toolbox to analyze mobile phone metadata
Contributions:4 releases, 200 commits, 6 PRs in 5 years 9 months
pythonphonemobile-phonetoolboxpython-toolbox
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