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Cansu Özmert is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Lausanne and a Recognised Student at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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Jake is a PhD candidate in philosophy with the Australian National University and a Recognised Student at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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Hubert is a DPhil student at the OII, interested in computational propaganda and social movements online.
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Hannah Bailey studied for an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. Research interests include China-US relations and China’s use of online censorship, with a focus on automated content analysis.
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Andrew holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Yale University and an MSc in Social Data Science from the OII. He is a Clarendon Scholar and was previously a Thouron Prize winner at the University of Cambridge (Pembroke College).
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Basak is a doctoral student at the OII.
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Yixin is a DPhil student in Social Data Science. Her research focuses on examining online communication on social media sites, and designing social systems to better support it.
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Calvin is a PhD student in computational communication research. His works centre around misinformation diffusion and mutation in multilingual contexts and applying LLMs to measure human values.
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Lisa is a DPhil student at the OII.
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Michael is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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Djavan is a part-time DPhil student conducting research at the intersection of agriculture and climatic change. He is currently a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
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Giuliano Formisano is a PhD Candidate in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, as an ESRC Scholar.
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Anna George is a Social Data Science doctoral student who uses computational approaches to study online political behaviour. Her research focuses on the message diffusion of alternative communities such as hate groups and political extremists.
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Kobi is a DPhil student in Social Data Science and Clarendon Scholar at the OII. His research evaluates the capabilities of AI systems to influence the political public sphere, with a particular emphasis on personalized large language models.
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Thomas holds a joint honours degree in Liberal Arts & Sciences from the University of Amsterdam and VU University, where he combined Cognitive Neuroscience with digital media studies. He has experience in clinical research and the telecom industry.
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Jazmia Henry is a part-time DPhil candidate for the Social Data Science programme at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include Explainable AI, Large Language Models, AI Alignment and AI Ethics.
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Kathryn is a technologist, computational linguist, and game designer. She studies how to build digital spaces for healthier communication and how play can contribute to a better, more humane life both online and offline.
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Lujain is a DPhil student in Social Data Science at the OII. Her research sits at the intersection of AI governance and human-centred computing, particularly examining how user autonomy and control are undermined in human-AI interactions.
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Prathm Juneja is a student on the DPhil in Social Data Science, and was previously a student on the MSc in Social Data Science.
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Hannah is a 3rd year DPhil student in Social Data Science at the OII. Hannah's research centres on the role of granular and diverse human feedback for aligning large language models.
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Felix is a DPhil student at the OII with an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management, and has over 2 years of work experience as analytics consultant at McKinsey & Company.
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Linda is a DPhil student at the OII interested in social network, agent-based model and contentious politics.
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Jabez is a DPhil student in Social Data Science at the OII. His research focuses on misinformation and developing automated fact-checking methods for misinformation in multiple modalities and across multilingual contexts.
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Mar Carpanelli is a student on the DPhil in Social Data Science and a Data Scientist & Economist at LinkedIn.
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Harry is a DPhil student at the OII. His research focuses on the application of AI in healthcare systems.
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Cailean is a DPhil candidate in Social Data Science, whose research interests concern the political economy of open source software and the digital commons at large.
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Guy is a Shirley Scholar at the OII, an Intensive Care doctor, and the Clinical Lead for a Health AI business at Deloitte. He researches AI-enabled healthcare systems.
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Alexandra is a DPhil candidate at the OII and a researcher on the Programme on Democracy and Technology studying the gendered dimensions of political communication during times of conflict.
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Jessica is a DPhil student in Social Data Science, researching representational biases in language models. She holds an MSc in Computer Science and works as a Lead Data Scientist at Springer Nature.
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Marcel is a doctoral candidate in Social Data Science and Researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project. His research is at the intersection of political science, statistics and computer science, with a focus on elections and disinformation.
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Matthew is a part-time DPhil student in Social Data Science, researching how people form habits with online media. He works as a staff data scientist at Spotify.
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Dylan Thurgood is a student on the DPhil in Social Data Science and was previously a student on the MSc in Social Data Science. His research focuses on opinion formation and collective intelligence.
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Manuel is a DPhil student in Social Data Science. He is broadly interested in using Natural Language Processing to extract policy-relevant information from social media data.
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Tarah Wheeler is an information security executive, social scientist in the area of international conflict, author, and poker player. She is CEO of information security company Red Queen Dynamics.
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Yushi is a DPhil student in Social Data Science at the OII. She is broadly interested in developing multimodal AI models for healthcare and social science applications.
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Juliette's research interests lie within Human-Centred Data Science, algorithmic bias and social justice.
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Kate is a Wellcome Trust scholar and doctoral researcher at the OII's Programme on Democracy & Technology (DemTech). Her research project deploys mixed methods to explore the influence of misinformation on vaccine hesitancy in the UK.
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Abid A. Adonis is a DPhil student at OII, interested in Digital Sovereignty, the Politics of Cyberspace, and the intersection between International Relations and technology.
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Mahsa is a DPhil student at the OII. Her research focuses on political communication and information controls in Iran.
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Nicole/Yung is a DPhil at the OII. Her research is interested in technology infrastructures and vertical/aerial surveillance.
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Liam is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute whose research focuses on communities of practice, from hobby and amateur groups to professional networks, which often use digital technologies to organise their knowledge-making activities.
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Sophie is an ESRC-funded DPhil student in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences. Her doctoral research examines how digital identification platforms shape access to rights, resources and political participation.
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Cassidy is a DPhil student and Clarendon Scholar at the OII. Her research focuses on the efficacy of content disclosure and provenance interventions for tackling deceptive synthetic media and synthetic disinformation.
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Chris was a DPhil student at the OII and a doctoral student at the Alan Turing Institute.
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Kayla Blomquist is a DPhil researcher at the OII focused on international AI governance approaches. She is the Co-founder and Director of the Oxford China Policy Lab and previously served as a US Diplomat to the People's Republic of China (2018-2021)
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Tomas’ doctoral project investigates the social histories and future imaginaries of the Internet on Haida Gwaii.
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Rutendo Chabikwa is a DPhil student at the OII. Her research applies a gender lens to understanding the effects of digital media on political participation in postcolonial contexts.
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Chloe is a Clarendon Scholar researching digital government innovation. She holds an MPhil in Public Policy from the University of Cambridge and has held roles in the government, private and third sectors focussed on civil service reform.
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Roland looks at posthumanism in the context of self-tracking wearables and the environment. He is happy to connect with anyone interested in these topics. He loves to cook, surf, and dive.
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Brianna Cho is a part-time DPhil Information, Communication and the Social Sciences student.
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Clementine is a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on AI and gender.
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As an M.Sc. by Research student, Chris studies expectations of privacy in digital spaces and how law in the U.S., EU, and U.K. should accommodate/conform/shape those expectations.
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Amanda is a DPhil student researching video games, player creativity, and knowledge practices.
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Ziyu Deng is a DPhil student in Information, Communication, and Social Sciences. She is interested in the relationship between offline social environments and the online reproduction and propagation of public opinions.
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Blake is a graduate of the OII and researches digital interventions that encourage consumers to make healthier decisions in online shopping contexts.
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Isabel is a DPhil student at the OII studying dating app design.
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Licinia is a DPhil student and Clarendon scholar. Her research focuses on the intersection of public opinion and digital politics, and analyses positions of citizens and political actors concerning digital issues.
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Will has an interest in algorithmic fairness, explainability, and wider AI ethics. He currently works in DeepMind's Ethics team, and was previously a consultant within PwC's Sustainability & Climate Change team.
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Laura is a 1+3 DPhil student at the OII and an Experience Research Lead at Adobe. Her research at both institutions aims to unpack how technology-based design affordances influence artistic output and creativity.
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Mercedes Horner's doctoral research examines bias in the design process of EdTech algorithms and data capture in UK higher education.
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Josh is a member of the World Economic Forum's Partnership Against Cyber Crime. He is also the President of the Global Center for Cyber Security and serves as a frequent advisor to technology startups and cyber-focused investors.
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Srujana is a doctoral student at the OII and a member of the Fairwork Project. Her research focusses on digital labour, migration, and resistance.
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Jude’s research focuses on building computational and machine learning models that can acquire and demonstrate social cognition skills by borrowing from principles in Psychology, Social Sciences and Cognition.
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MSc Thesis: Political participation in non-political online communities: The role of sense of community in fostering political participation Supervisor: Dr Vili Lehdonvirta Completed: 2014
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Claire Leibowicz is a DPhil candidate and the Head of AI and Media Integrity at the Partnership on AI. Her research is generously funded by the OII Shirley Scholarship.
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Diyi's research aims to understand how digital networks boost the power of online communities, influence the way that social actors exchange meaning with each other, and ultimately reshape people's social lives.
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Maggie’s doctoral research focuses on AI and creativity. She is incorporating visual art as a part of a practice-based methodological approach to understand how creatives find inspiration through algorithmic image search.
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Fattori's research focuses on the politics of blockchain in the arts & heritage sector.
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Jess Morley is a DPhil candidate researching the cultural, social, ethical, technical and regulatory factors influencing the development, deployment and use of digital, data and AI within healthcare settings.
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Amy is a DPhil candidate. She researches empathic communication with digital audiences.
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Lisa-Maria Neudert is a DPhil Student researching platform governance and regulation in response to mis/disinformation.
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Sanna is a DPhil Student at the OII and also a doctoral student at the Alan Turing Institute, where she leads the Data and Inequality interest group together with her supervisor Mark Graham.
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Samantha Jane Pay is a specialist in violence against women and girl’s policy and practice. Her research focuses on the concept of an ‘algorithmic female’ and the ethics of personalisation culture.
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Mimmi's DPhil research focuses on the political economy of public sector artificial intelligence projects. She's interested in how technology is reshaping economic structures of societies.
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Alongside work on AI, Anne’s doctoral research is in the sociology of knowledge, focusing on the online work of independent commissions and their role in British politics.
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Marie-Therese is a British, Afro-Caribbean and Chinese-Singaporean individual whose DPhil Research lives at the intersections of technology justice, environmental justice and decoloniality.
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Nayana is a DPhil researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on purpose-built storytelling platforms in India and the changing nature of writing online. In her work, she blends ethnographic methodology with literary practice.
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Philipp researches instruments to distribute the power of digital platform monopolists. He analyses the effects of vertical separation and interoperability in decentralised platform ecosystems.
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Joanna’s research focuses on junctures between mobile Augmented Reality environments, critical heritage visualisations and post/decolonial historiography.
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Huw Roberts is a DPhil student at the OII. His research focuses on the development and export of Chinese AI governance initiatives.
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Lily is a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on gender inequality and remote work.
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Nancy is a DPhil student at the OII. Her research concerns the public perception and user experience of emerging technologies.
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Odysseas Sclavounis is a DPhil student at the OII and also at the Alan Turing Institute. His research focuses on the governance of public blockchains, specifically Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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Felix is a OII DPhil Student, a research assistant at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and a Fellow at Columbia University's Tow Center. As a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar he is researching AI in journalism and the news industry.
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Charles is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research focuses on the ethics and politics of federated digital identity systems.
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Sarah Stewart is a DPhil student at the OII.
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Andreas' doctoral research centres on human control of AI applications within national security and defence. His research is supported by the OII, and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
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Thomas Vogl works at the intersection of public administration, organizational studies, and digital change. His thesis explores public sector organizational memory in the digital age.
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James is a DPhil student at the OII.
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Eugene is a creative executive in the media technology sector who is passionate about data rights and emergent governance systems in digital spaces.
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Marta Ziosi’s research revolves around the use of data-driven risk-assessment tools in the Criminal Justice System. She focuses on alternative methods in machine learning to centre policies around prevention, rather than prediction, of crime.
