Dr Hubert Au
Former DPhil Student
Hubert is a DPhil student at the OII, interested in computational propaganda and social movements online.
DPhil Students
DPhil in Social Data Science
Andrew Bean
DPhil Student
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).
Matthew Bone
DPhil Student
Matthew is a candidate for the DPhil in Social Data Science. His research is on technology and the future of work.
Başak Bozkurt
DPhil Student
Başak is a PhD student in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research lies at the intersection of human-AI interaction, political science, communication and computational linguistics.
Ryan Brown
DPhil Student
Ryan is a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute, focused on AI fairness, with research interests in technical fairness methodologies, NLP, and deep learning.
Yixin Chen
DPhil Student
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.
Calvin Yixiang Cheng
DPhil Student
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.
Elizaveta (Lisa) Chernenko
DPhil Student
Lisa is a DPhil student at the OII.
Michael Collyer
DPhil Student
Michael is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Dr Djavan De Clercq
DPhil Student
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.
Giuliano Formisano
DPhil Student
Giuliano Formisano is a PhD Candidate in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, as an ESRC Scholar.
Anna George
DPhil Student
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.
Kobi Hackenburg
DPhil Student
Kobi is a PhD candidate in Social Data Science and Clarendon Scholar at the OII. Kobi’s doctoral research evaluates the capabilities of artificial intelligence systems to influence human attitudes, behaviour, and cognition.
Thomas Hakman
DPhil Student
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.
Jazmia Henry
DPhil Student
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.
Kathryn Hymes
DPhil Student
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.
Lujain Ibrahim
DPhil Student
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.
Prathm Juneja
DPhil Student
Prathm Juneja is a student on the DPhil in Social Data Science, and was previously a student on the MSc in Social Data Science.
Hannah Rose Kirk
DPhil Student
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.
Karolina Korgul
DPhil Student
Karolina is a DPhil student at the OII, where her research focuses on GenAI solutions for healthcare.
Felix Krones
DPhil Student
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.
Linda Li
DPhil Student
Linda is a DPhil student at the OII interested in social network, agent-based model and contentious politics.
William Lugoloobi
DPhil Student
William is a Rhodes Scholar and DPhil student in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). His research focuses on developing and applying Multimodal AI systems to explore the impact of internet censorship.
Jabez Magomere
DPhil Student
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.
Maria del Mar Carpanelli
DPhil Student
Mar Carpanelli is a student on the DPhil in Social Data Science and a Data Scientist & Economist at LinkedIn.
Harry Mayne
DPhil Student
Harry is a DPhil student at the OII. His research focuses on the application of AI in healthcare systems.
Cailean Osborne
DPhil Student
Cailean is a DPhil Candidate in Social Data Science, whose research concerns the political economy of open source artificial intelligence.
Dr Guy Parsons
DPhil Student
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.
Alexandra Pavliuc
DPhil Student
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.
Jessica Rodrigues Da Silva
DPhil Student
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.
Jonathan Rystrøm
DPhil Student
Jonathan is a DPhil student in Social Data Science at the OII. Jonathan's research focus is socio-technical evaluations of multimodal human-AI interactions.
Flavia Saxler
DPhil Student
Flavia Saxler is a Recognised Student in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on AI ethics, gender, and data-driven approaches to violence against women.
Marcel Schliebs
DPhil Student
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.
Matt Sharpe
DPhil Student
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.
Dylan Thurgood
Teaching Assistant, DPhil Student
Dylan Thurgood is a third-year DPhil in Social Data Science student and was previously a student on the MSc in Social Data Science. His research focuses on how online news exposure shapes political attitudes.
Manuel Tonneau
DPhil Student
Manuel is a second-year DPhil student in Social Data Science and a Shirley Scholar at the OII. His research is focused on the cross-geographic study of harmful online content moderation.
Tarah Wheeler
DPhil Student
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.
Chandler T Wilson
DPhil Student
Chandler's DPhil research is focused on modelling complex information systems using AI. In addition to attending Oxford, he is the Founder of bridge_ci, a machine intelligence, alternative data, and OSINT management consulting firm.
Yilun Xu
DPhil Student
Yilun is a DPhil Social Data Science student at the OII.
Yushi Yang
DPhil Student
Yushi is a DPhil student in Social Data Science at the OII, and an aspiring data scientist. Her research focuses on developing interpretability methods to improve safety mechanisms in large language models and ensure robust harm mitigation.
Juliette Zaccour
DPhil Student
Juliette is a Clarendon Scholar at the OII, conducting research on data access, privacy-enhancing technologies, and algorithm auditing.
DPhil in Information, Communication & the Social Sciences
Kate Joynes-Burgess
DPhil Student
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.
Abid Abdurrahman Adonis
DPhil Student
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.
Mahsa Alimardani
DPhil Student
Mahsa is a DPhil student at the OII. Her research focuses on political communication and information controls in Iran.
Nicole (Yung) Au
DPhil Student
Nicole/Yung is a DPhil at the OII. Her research is interested in technology infrastructures and vertical/aerial surveillance.
Johanna Barop
DPhil Student
Johanna is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute specialising in the political economy of AI. She explores AI’s impact on the future of work, combining economic insights with machine learning.
Liam Bekirsky
DPhil Student
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.
Sophie Bennani-Taylor
DPhil Student
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.
Cassidy Bereskin
DPhil Student
Cassidy Bereskin is a PhD researcher and Clarendon Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute specialising in the efficacy of content disclosure interventions for combatting synthetic visual disinformation.
Chris Blex
DPhil Student
Chris was a DPhil student at the OII and a doctoral student at the Alan Turing Institute.
Kayla Blomquist
DPhil Student
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)
Rutendo Chabikwa
DPhil Student
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.
Chloe Chadwick
DPhil Student
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.
Roland Chen
DPhil Student
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.
Brianna Cho
DPhil Student
Brianna Cho is a part-time DPhil Information, Communication and the Social Sciences student.
Dr Clementine Collett
Former DPhil Student
Clementine is a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on AI and gender.
Christopher Crum
DPhil Student
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.
Amanda Curtis
DPhil Student
Amanda is a DPhil student researching video games, player creativity, and knowledge practices.
Nathan Davies
DPhil Student
Nathan researches the state in an age of digital era government. He draws on his BA at Cambridge, where he focused on the history of technology and temporality, and his experience at start-ups and a government-focused technology company.
Ziyu Deng
DPhil Student
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.
Dr Blake DiCosola
Former MSc Student
Blake is a graduate of the OII and researches digital interventions that encourage consumers to make healthier decisions in online shopping contexts.
Anju Gaston
DPhil Student
Anju is a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute funded by the ESRC Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership. Her research focuses on voluntary digital disconnection in contexts of ubiquitous connectivity.
Isabel Goddard
DPhil Student
Isabel is a DPhil student at the OII studying dating app design.
Licinia Güttel
DPhil Student
Licinia is a DPhil candidate and Clarendon Scholar at the OII. She is a political scientist researching party positions and public opinion on digitalisation.
William Hawkins
DPhil Student
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.
Laura Herman
DPhil Student
Laura specializes in emerging technologies’ impact on artistic & creative practices. Currently, she is the Head of AI Research at Adobe and a doctoral researcher at the OII.
Josh Jaffe
DPhil Student
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.
Srujana Katta
DPhil Student
Srujana is a doctoral student at the OII and a member of the Fairwork Project. Her research focusses on digital labour, migration, and resistance.
David Michael Kelly
DPhil Student
David Michael Kelly is a DPhil student and former Visiting Policy Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute researching international governance of frontier technologies.
Jude Khouja
DPhil Student
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.
Yvonne Lee
DPhil Student
Yvonne is studying for a DPhil in Information, Communication, and Social Sciences. She researches Chinese technology investments and AI governance.
Claire Leibowicz
DPhil Student
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.
Shirley Leung
DPhil Student
Shirley is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on the future of creativity and AI.
Yoon Lim
DPhil Student
Yoon Lim is pursuing a PhD in Information, Communication, and the Social Sciences, specializing in Digital Economies, Information Governance, and Security.
Michael Liu
DPhil Student
Michael is a PhD candidate at NYU Abu Dhabi who uses computational approaches to study science policy.
Diyi Liu
DPhil Student
Diyi is a DPhil candidate and Clarendon scholar at the OII. Her doctoral research examines algorithmic content moderation and the legitimacy of platformised speech governance in Asian contexts.
Maggie Mustaklem
DPhil Student
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.
Fattori McKenna
DPhil Student
Fattori's research focuses on the politics of blockchain in the arts & heritage sector.
Anniki Mikelsaar
DPhil Student
Anniki is a DPhil Information, Communication, and Social Sciences student and a Shirley Scholar at the OII. Anniki's research focuses on the governance of digital infrastructures with a particular focus on cable networks.
Amy Munz
DPhil Student
Amy is a DPhil candidate. She researches empathic communication with digital audiences.
Lisa-Maria Neudert
DPhil Student
Lisa-Maria Neudert is a DPhil Student researching platform governance and regulation in response to mis/disinformation.
Sanna Ojanperä
DPhil Student
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.
Samantha Pay
DPhil Student
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.
Mimmi Piikkilä
DPhil Student
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.
Anne Ploin
DPhil Student
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.
Marie-Therese Png
DPhil Student
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.
Philipp Riederle
DPhil Student
Philipp researches instruments to distribute the power of digital platform monopolists. He analyses the effects of vertical separation and interoperability in decentralised platform ecosystems.
Joanna Rivera Carlisle
DPhil Student
Joanna’s research focuses on junctures between mobile Augmented Reality environments, critical heritage visualisations and post/decolonial historiography.
Huw Roberts
DPhil Student
Huw Roberts is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute and an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
Lily Rodel
DPhil Student
Lily is a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on gender inequality and remote work.
Nancy Salem
DPhil Student
Nancy is a DPhil student at the OII. Her research concerns the public perception and user experience of emerging technologies.
Divya Siddarth
DPhil Student
Divya is the co-founder of the Collective Intelligence Project, which advances collective intelligence capabilities for the effective governance of transformative technologies.
Sarah Stewart
DPhil Student
Sarah Stewart is a DPhil student at the OII.
Andreas Tsamados
DPhil Student
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).
YanQing Wang
DPhil Student
YanQing Wang is a DPhil student and Shirley Scholar at Oxford Internet Institute. Yan's research focuses on gender and AI.
Boxi Wu
DPhil Student
Boxi (bor-shi) is a DPhil researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Research Policy Consultant with the OECD’s AI Policy Observatory (OECD.AI).
Eugene Yi
DPhil Student
Eugene is a creative executive in the media technology sector who is passionate about data rights and emergent governance systems in digital spaces.
Kat Zhou
DPhil Student
Kat Zhou is a DPhil candidate and Clarendon Scholar at the OII. Her research maps the geographies of resistance within the realm of AI, honing in on the labor organizing undertaken by data workers.