People

Flora Seddon

Former Programme Administrator (DemTech)

Flora provides administrative services to researchers on the Programme on Democracy & Technology (DemTech),  as well as supporting projects and initiatives led by DemTech's Director, such as the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance (OxCAIGG). 

Jess Antonio

Former Research Support Officer

Jess manages the Programme on Democracy and Technology (DemTech), leading and coordinating all engagement, funding, and operational activities, including working with key stakeholders to build on and promote DemTech’s research.

Dr Tabitha Baker

Former Head of Research Facilitation (Maternity cover)

Tabitha oversees Research Facilitation in the department, and supports the growth and development of OII research activity. She co-ordinates preparation of research proposals, working with researchers from all career stages.

John Gilbert

Former Web Developer

John was responsible for the development and maintenance of the OII’s suite of websites, including user experience, user interfaces, and the OII’s visual identity.

Isabelle Malcolm

Former Events Officer

Isabelle manages the OII’s lectures, conferences, seminars, policy forums and other external and internal events. She has a background in operational logistics and communications. All event queries should be made to her.

Sophie Cray

Former Personal Assistant

Sophie is the first point of contact for all matters relating to Professor Vili Lehdonvirta, Professor Sandra Wachter, Professor Andrew Przybylski and Dr Brent Mittelstadt.

Dr Nesrine Abdel-Sattar

Former DPhil Student

Nesrine Abdel-Sattar is an OII DPhil alumna. She has interests in online news, news convergence, media effects, and reception of online news.

Abdul Abdulrahim

Former MSc Student

Abdul is an MSc Social Data Science alumnus. He trained as a lawyer with experience in privacy and intellectual property. He holds a BSc in Philosophy and is interested in the use of data science to understand complex social systems.

Hal Abelson

Former Visiting Fellow

Hal Abelson is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Abelson has a broad interest in information technology and policy, and a longstanding interest in using computation as a conceptual framework in teaching.

Abdallah AbuHashem

Former MSc Student

Prior to OII, Abdallah obtained a BS and MSc in computer science from Stanford University. He completed an MSc in Social Science of the Internet with an interest in Educational Technology.

Dr Robert Ackland

Former Visiting Fellow

Robert Ackland is a Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU). He has interests in the development of new methods (and associated e-Research tools) for quantitative analysis of social and economic phenomena on the Internet.

Publio Adrianza Cerqueira

Former MSc Student

Born in Caracas, Publio graduated from Stanford University with a B.S.H. in Science, Technology and Society. Publio is interested in the implementation, operation, and impact of the online gig economy.

Pablo Aguera Reneses

Former Research Assistant

Pablo Aguera is a Research Assistant for the Fairwork project at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Eve Ahearn

Former MSc Student

Sabrina Ahmad

Former MSc Student

Sabrina Ahmad holds a B.A. in Communications and Sociology from the University of Ottawa. Fluent in English, French and Bengali, she has worked in e-communications for the Government of Canada and in marketing and research roles across Europe.

Zohaib Ahmed

Former MSc Student

Zo was an MSc. Social Data Science student with an interest in AI-driven political influence and political life on social media platforms. He previously worked as a Data Specialist at Twitter, and in the AI Policy team at Google.

Fatema Akbar

Former MSc Student

Thesis: User engagement and progression in open online 'micro lessons': An analysis of learners’ log data

Andrea Alarcon

Former MSc Student

Carolina Albassini

Former MSc Student

Carolina graduated as a European Ethnologist from the Ludwig-Maximilians University, in Munich, Germany. She founded her own company in 2016. Her interests are social media and its effects on users and consumption trends.

Richard Allan

Former Visiting Fellow

Richard Allan is a member of the Information Select Committee and the Liaison Committee of the House of Commons. He speaks and writes on a range of technology related subjects, including the development of e-democracy and e-government.

Sir Alex Allan KCB

Former Advisory Board Member

Sir Alex Allan served as the first UK Government e-Envoy, and is former chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Head of Intelligence Assessment, UK Cabinet Office.

Colette Allen

Former MSc Student

Colette is an aspiring barrister interested in new media, privacy, data protection and internet law. She studied History at UCL, before completing the Graduate Diploma in Law at City University of London.

Santiago Amador

Former MSc Student

Santiago is an MSc Alumnus interested on Digital Inequality and Internet Policy. Before coming to the OII Santiago was the Internet Policy Director of the Ministry of ICT of Colombia.

Alex Amari

Former MSc Student

Alex is an MSc Social Data Science alumnus. He received a B.A. from Rice University, where he studied PPE and Statistics. He was previously a visiting student in PPE at Oxford.

David Ambler

Former MSc Student

David studied Psychology and Economics at Harvard University before joining the OII. David is interested in understanding how social media can impact political opinion, and its use as a tool to reduce division in the context of key political events.

Mohamed Amersi

Former Advisory Board Member

Mohamed Amersi is the Founder and CEO of Emergent Telecom Ventures.

Dr Rami Amin

Former DPhil Student

Rami Amin focused on the use of experimental methods to explore political science research questions and themes. His thesis investigated the impact of visibility and transparency on democratic participation and civic behavior.

Katharina Anders

Former DPhil Student

Katharina holds a BSc in Business Statistics from Freie University Berlin and Harvard University as well as a MSc in Statistics from Oxford University.

Dr Maja Andjelkovic

Former DPhil Student

Maja Andjelkovic is an OII DPhil alumna. She has interests in the potential of entrepreneurship and technology to contribute to economic, environmental and social sustainability.

Alexander Andresian

Former MSc Student

Hannah Andrews

Former MSc Student

Hannah's research interest is the impact of internet communication technologies on collective cultural expression and creative practice. She also works as a Creative Producer with the Google Arts & Culture Lab. She holds a BA in English Literature.

Peter Andringa

Former MSc Student

Peter holds a BA in journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill and most recently worked at The Washington Post. As a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, he is interested in digital news audiences and how media can build trust online.

Minh Anh Le

Former MSc Student

Minh holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Statistics with minor Computer Science from the LMU Munich and an Honours Degree in Technology and Management from the Center of Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) in Munich, Germany.

Dr Mohammad Amir Anwar

Former Postdoctoral Researcher

Amir’s research focus is on the political economy of globalisation in the Global South, with a particular interest on the growth of knowledge economy and its impacts on the economy and society in Africa, in ongoing collaboration with Mark Graham.

Miriyam Aouragh

Former Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow

Miriyam Aouragh has interests in mobility, interactivity, empowerment, grassroots activism and the construction of (imagined) online communities. She is studying the implications of new generation/Internet 2.0 for Palestinian and Lebanese activists.

Pablo Aragón Asenjo

Former Visiting Fellow

Pablo Aragón is a PhD candidate at the AI group in Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Digital Humanities Unit in Eurecat. His latest research focuses on the study of the effects of digital platforms in citizen participatory processes.

Jacopo Attolini

Former MSc Student

Jacopo is an MSc Social Data Science student at the OII. He previously graduated in Business Management from the University of Surrey. He is interested in building and using data science tools on social science datasets, particularly in economics.

Ville Aula

Former MSc Student

Ville is interested in digital tools and new forms of expertise in policy-making. He hold a BSc and a MSc in Political Science from the University of Helsinki, and worked as a government management consultant prior to joining OII.

Dr Ann-Sofie Axelsson

Former Visiting Fellow

Ann-Sofie Axelsson is a lecturer and researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. At the OII she undertook research on ethical, legal and institutional dynamics of e-science in Sweden.

Deniz Duru Aydin

Former MSc Student

Before coming to the OII, Deniz completed her B.A. at New York University and worked for the global NGO Access Now.

Rachel Azafrani

Former MSc Student

Rachel holds a BSFS in International Political Economy from Georgetown University.

Kaveh Azarhoosh

Former MSc Student

Nathan Bailey

Former MSc Student

Nathan holds a BA in PPE from University of Oxford. He is interested in using trends in political language to better understand elite selection, voting behaviour, and political disillusionment. His studies were funded by the OII Shirley Scholarship.

Dr Victoria Baines

Former Visiting Associate

Victoria Baines is a graduate of Trinity College and a former law enforcement intelligence analyst. After a decade in government investigating and analysing cybercrime and child exploitation, she now works in the tech industry.

Michael Bajwa

Former MSc Student

Michael is studying for an MSc in Social Data Science. He has worked in Radiology R&D and is interested in AI applications in healthcare. He holds a Master's in Public Health and a BSc in Medical Imaging Science.

Dr Maria Bakardjieva

Former Visiting Fellow

Maria Bakardjieva is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. At the OII she conducted an ethnographic study of the Internet as a communication medium, focusing on intensive field work in Bulgaria.

Krista Baker

Former Facilities Officer (Maternity Cover)

Krista is on Maternity Leave until May 2022.

Sarah Ball

Former MSc Student

Sarah studied Politics and Economics at the University of Heidelberg and Mannheim and has experience as an intern in consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers in forensic services and later at Boston Consulting where she worked in the automotive industry.

Diana Banias

Former MSc Student

Diana is studying for an MSc in Social Data Science. Prior to joining the OII, Diana gained experience in finance. She holds a BSc in International Management from the University of Warwick.

Farrah Barber

Former MSc Student

Farrah is originally from Stoke. She completed her undergrad at St Andrews, majoring in International Relations, minor Russian and Economics. Her research focuses on Computational Political Science.

Laird Barret

Former MSc Student

Maud Barret

Former MSc Student

Ilinca Barsan

Former MSc Student

Ivana Bartoletti

Former Visiting Policy Fellow

Ivana Bartoletti is the Global Privacy Officer at Wipro, the leading international information technology, consulting and business process services company.

Tereza Bartoníčková

Former MSc Student

Tereza holds a BSc. in marketing and PR and gained diverse experience before joining the OII. She focused on changes in public opinion forming and how the internet transforms our thinking and therefore our society, nations and culture.

Alexander Bassmanow

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The relationship between Online Friendship Count and Dyadic Personality Assessment

Aditya Basu

Former MSc Student

Thesis: How Alters Affect Impression Management on Online Social Networks: Are Your Facebook Friends the Problem?

Solal Bauer

Former MSc Student

Solal Bauer holds a BA in Human, Social, and Political Science from the University of Cambridge. He is interested in modernisation and contemporary political philosophy,

Elizabeth Baylis

Former MSc Student

Elizabeth is interested in how the internet effects the governance of violence and influences contemporary national security policy. She holds a BA from the University of Cambridge, and has worked previously as a Senior Policy Adviser.

Caroline Baylon

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Cybercrime Pandemic in Eastern Europe-Identifying the Root Causes

Diego Beas

Former Visiting Fellow

In the last few years, my research has focused on the way information technologies affect governance and the political process.

Wes Beaver

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Social Media’s Dialogic Effect and Non-Profit Organizations

Nathan Begbie

Former MSc Student

I am a computer scientist who has worked in software development and in data science. I have worked on a maternal health platform for DfID, using innovative methods for aid-related projects.

Julian Beimes

Former MSc Student

After completing his first Bachelor’s degree in Political Science with an emphasis on public administration and a parallel bachelor program in Economics and Political Science at the University of Potsdam (Germany), he studied Social Data Science.

Therese-Heather Belen

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Managing Information-sharing Behaviours in Public-by-default Online Social Networks

Shannon Bell

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Your post changed my opinion…said no one ever?: A qualitative study of Californian Facebook users and the impact of political posts

Professor Hind Benbya

Former Visiting Policy Fellow

Hind Benbya is Professor and Head of IS and Business Analytics at Deakin Business School in Melbourne. At Oxford Internet Institute, Prof Benbya investigates the policy implications of emerging artificial intelligence technologies in healthcare.

Hannah Bennett

Former MSc Student

Hannah holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of York. She has a particular interest in cyber war and how technology has changed the nature of warfare.

Megan Beretta

Former MSc Student

Megan holds a BSocSc in Political Science and Communication from the University of Ottawa. She is interested in the intersection of the internet, civic engagement, social media, and politics.

Marcus Bergquist

Former MSc Student

Marcus is interested in information networks and platforms. He has previously led software development in the data distribution space.

Andrew Berkley

Former MSc Student

Dr Florian Bersier

Former DPhil Student

Florian Bersier was a DPhil candidate at the OII, working in the interplay between economics and complex systems. His thesis focused on the design of online reputation systems.

Shira Naomi Bick

Former MSc Student

Naomi is interested in online publishing and currently works as a Research Assistant at the Reuters Institute of Journalism. Prior to joining the OII, she won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for her work as a producer with PBS: FRONTLINE/World.

Eve Binder

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Can Gaming Inspire Giving? A Controlled Experiment on the Effectiveness of Gamification as a Fundraising Tool

Andreas Birkbak

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Crystallizations in the Blizzard: When improvised colloboration freezes into Facebook groups

Jim Bligh

Former Visiting Policy Fellow

Jim Bligh is Director of Corporate Affairs for the UK and Ireland at Tata Consultancy Services, where he is responsible for public affairs and policy; stakeholder, academic, industry analyst and government relations.

Kayla Blomquist

Former MSc Student

Kayla is interested in internet governance and digital sovereignty. She previously worked as a U.S. diplomat in China and holds a BA in Public Policy, Mandarin, and International Relations from the University of Denver.

Dr Gillian Bolsover

Former Researcher

Gillian Bolsover researches politics, citizenship and civil society in the modern world, focusing on the changes associated with new media technologies and on producing research that takes into account China and other non-Western populations.

Simon Bone

Former MSc Student

Simon is a graduate in Computer Science from Cambridge University and has a masters from the Harvard Kennedy School where he was editor of the newspaper. He is now a partner in a Venture Capital firm.

Conrad Borchers

Former MSc Student

Conrad is interested in the potentials of AI, data science and social media for educational processes. He holds a BSc in Psychology from the University of Tübingen.

Professor Christine Borgman

Former Visiting Fellow

Christine Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). her sabbatical research project at the OII addressed e-Science, Digital Libraries, and Knowledge Communities.

Austin Botelho

Former MSc Student

Austin came to the OII with a BA in International Affairs and Economics from Lafayette College. He is passionate about promoting social cohesion and inclusion with technology as demonstrated by his research on automated hate speech detection.

Jeremy Bowles

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Political Economy of Conflict, Cooperation and Consensus in IP Address Governance

Dr Reneta Bozhankova

Former Visiting Scholar

Reneta Bozhankova is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Slavic Studies at the University of Sofia St Kliment Ohridski. Currently she is participating in projects investigating e-publishing and e-learning in Slavic Studies.

Samantha Bradshaw

Former Research Assistant

Samantha left the OII to become Assistant Professor at American University. She specialises in computational propaganda, social media and democracy, human rights, and Internet policy

Michaela Brady

Former MSc Student

Michaela holds a MSc in Social Sciences and the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute. She is interested in mitigating cyber-aggression and improving online therapy.

Janine Braithwaite

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The UK Internet Filtering Regime: Trends in Enforcement and Attitude

Sven Braun

Former MSc Student

Saba Rebecca Brause

Former MSc Student

Saba Rebecca Brause is interested in online privacy and data protection. She earned her BA in Social Sciences and her MA in Communication from from Sciences Po Paris, graduating cum laude.

David A. Bray

Former Visiting Associate

David Bray studied as a PhD candidate researching Information Systems at the Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta. His interests include knowledge ecosystems, augmented group cognition, and emerging virtual institutions.

Dr Yana Breindl

Former Wiener-Anspach Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow

Yana Breindl researches digital rights campaigning at the European level, particularly targeting internet and copyright regulations.

Clare Brennan

Former MSc Student

Clare holds a Bachelor's degree in Arts and Economics from the Australian National University. She has worked in consulting and education, and is interested in how data science informs social policy.

Eduardo Briceño Florez

Former MSc Student

Eduardo holds a double major in History and Political Science from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. He was the Editor of the collaborative journalism lab of La Silla Vacia, considered among the most influential media outlets in his country

Morgan Briggs

Former MSc Student

Morgan was a full-time MSc student at the OII. She graduated from Wake Forest University and holds a BSB in Business Data Science and Religious Studies.

Dr Dennis Broeders

Former Visiting Fellow

Dennis Broeders is a senior research fellow at the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) and a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Sociology of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Professor Ian Brown

Former Research Fellow

Professor Ian Brown was Professor of Information Security and Privacy at the OII. His research is focused on surveillance, privacy-enhancing technologies, and Internet regulation.

Andrew Bulovsky

Former MSc Student

Selected as a Marshall Scholar, Andrew holds a BA in Political Science & Communication (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, 2014) and an MSc in Comparative Politics (LSE, 2015).

Melanie Bumpas

Former MSc Student

Melanie Bumpas is interested in the formation and manipulation of public opinion online. She previously worked in Shanghai for Kantar Media CIC, a social media analysis and consulting firm, and holds a BA in International Studies and Chinese.

Mark Bunting

Former Visiting Associate

Expert on digital transformation of public service media. Held senior strategy/policy roles at the BBC and Ofcom. Previous career in research including online community insight, public consultation, and qualitative and quantitative social research.

Abby Burke

Former MSc Student

Abby graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2021 with a degree in Economics and International Affairs. Abby has previously interned with the Office of U.S. Congressman John Lewis, the U.S. Department of State, and the Carter Center

Dr Christopher Burr

Former Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr Christopher Burr is a philosopher of cognitive science and artificial intelligence. His research explores philosophical and ethical issues surrounding the impact of technologies, such as AI, on mental health and well-being.

Camille Butera

Former MSc Student

Camille graduated with a B.A. in sociology from Smith College. Her focus of interest lies in digital communities and anonymity.

Diane Cabell

Former Visiting Industry Associate

Diane Cabell is counsel for Creative Commons and iCommons. She is a former Clinical Instructor and Assistant Director of the Berkman Center at Harvard and founder of its Clinical Program in Cyberlaw.

Professor Alexandre Caldas

Former Fellow

Alexandre Caldas is Chief of Country Outreach, Technology and Innovation Branch at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), a Director position in the United Nations Organization. He is a Professor of Science and Technology Policy.

Claudio Calvino

Former Researcher

Claudio Calvino's main research interests cover political and cultural geography, GIS and more recently the harnessing of Volunteered Geographic Information and Citizen Science.

Jamie Cameron

Former Research Assistant

Jamie Cameron uses 3D imaging to support museum learning through the online education platform 'Cabinet'.

Craig Campbell

Former MSc Student

Craig has spent his career at the intersection of architecture, digital culture, and public policy. He holds a BA summa cum laude in Mathematics & Architectural Studies from Amherst College.

Ualan Campbell-Smith

Former MSc Student

Ualan holds a BA in Politics from Durham University. His research interests include Information Warfare, the cyber sovereignty movement, and nationalism online.

Bob Carlson

Former Visiting Associate

Bob Carlson was HSBC Group Head of IT Operations and Telecommunications. He has pioneered global resourcing contracts with many IT and Telecommunications hardware, software, and services providers, as well as global virtual teaming concepts.

Federica Casarosa

Former Academic Visitor

Federica Casarosa is a doctoral student at the European University Institute in Florence. At the OII she undertook research on the regulation of online auctions, taking into account the role of self-regulation and public governance.

Professor Manuel Castells

Former Advisory Board Member

Manuel Castells is Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, in Barcelona. He also a University Professor and the holder of the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society at the USC Annenberg School of Communication

Corinne Cath-Speth

Former MSc Student

Corinne Cath-Speth was a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focused on the politics and ethics of Internet governance and the management of the Internet’s infrastructure.

Atilla Cevik

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Effects of Politics on Information-Selection Modes Online: A Typology of Exposure and Avoidance in High-Choice Media Environments Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Bright Completed: 2015

Professor Andrew Chadwick

Former Visiting Fellow

Andrew Chadwick (PhD London School of Economics) is Professor of Political Communication in the Department of Communication and Media at Loughborough University, where he is also director of the Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C).

Catherine Chang

Former MSc Student

Catherine is interested in social media and its influences on everyday life, practices, and relationships. She holds a BA in Geography from the University of Cambridge.

Madeleine Chang

Former MSc Student

Madeleine Chang was a Rhodes Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute. She holds a bachelor’s in History and Arabic from Stanford University.

Sharon Chang

Former MSc Student

Sharon was an MSc student with research interests in the development of smart cities, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the ideas of improving disabled accessibility through data-driven, human-centred approaches.

Matt Chapman

Former MSc Student

Matthew has worked in various strategy and analytics roles in the telecoms sector. He studied Geography at Cambridge University and has spent time travelling the world. His favourite countries are Jordan, Iceland and Vietnam.

Professor Kriengsak Chareonwongsak

Former Visiting Fellow

Kriengsak Chareonwongsak is President of the Institute of Future Studies for Development in Thailand. His interests include macro economics, public policy, economics of Internet, and governance reform.

Timothy Charlton

Former MSc Student

Timothy’s interests are digital labour markets and online social networks in the context of humanitarian emergencies. He studied Philosophy and Digital Humanities in Munich and London before working for the UN World Food Programme.

Bethan Charnley

Former MSc Student

Bethan is an MSc student at the OII. She previously worked as a management consultant, specialising in digital disruption. Bethan holds a BA in History from the University of Cambridge.

Daniel Chase

Former MSc Student

Daniel Chase is interested in cyber security, quantum computing, big data, and machine learning. He earned his B.A. in political science from Columbia University, graduating summa cum laude.

Dr Tom Chatfield

Former Visiting Associate

Tom Chatfield is a British author, broadcaster and tech philosopher. The author of six books exploring digital culture, he is currently researching critical thinking in the 21st century.

Salman Chaudhry

Former MSc Student

Salman is a part-time MSc student at the OII. Salman’s background is in the mobile hardware and software space focusing on loyalty and engagement strategies. Salman holds a BA in History from the University of Cambridge.

Margie Cheesman

Former DPhil Student

Margie was a DPhil student at the OII.

Alena Chemulova

Former MSc Student

Alena is interested in the application of chaos theory and fractal geometry in the exploring of knowledge communities. She has worked in Talent Acquisition in Cargill, and holds a BSc in Sociology from Kuban State Technological University.

Yining Chen

Former MSc Student

Yining graduated from Peking University with a BA in Sociology. Yining is interested in social research on the internet in relation to intimacies, relationships, and social networks.

Mervyn Cheong

Former MSc Student

Mervyn holds a BSc in Economics from University College London. He currently works in the Singapore Civil Service and has an interest in leveraging data to drive evidence-based policymaking.

Samuele Chinellato

Former MSc Student

Samuele was an OII MSc student interested in the effects of online platforms on political communication. He holds a BA and MA in History from the University of East Anglia.

Jaz Hee-jeong Choi

Former Visiting Fellow

Jaz Hee-jeong Choi is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Urban Informatics Research Lab, Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Khushboo Chougule

Former MSc Student

Khushboo Chougule obtained her B.S. in Cognitive Science at Indiana University – Bloomington. She is pursuing an M.Sc. in Social Data Science with an interest in decision making in risk situations.

Alison Cies

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Digital Dilemma: Gender, Empowerment, and the Global Divide in ICT Usage Supervisor: Dr Monica Bulger Completed: 2012

Dr Amanda Clarke

Former DPhil Student

Amanda Clarke is an OII DPhil alumna. Her DPhil research examined the tension between emerging models of online government-citizen engagement and the tenets and practices of public sector bureaucracies.

Dr Cristobal Cobo

Former Research Fellow

Cristobal Cobo coordinates research on innovation, open knowledge initiatives and future of learning. Currently he works on Networks of Excellence on Internet Science and OportUnidad, both project founded by European Commission.

Professor Stephen Coleman

Former Cisco Visiting Professor of e-Democracy

Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication at Leeds University. At the OII he worked on the adaptation of representative institutions in the digital age, and the development of spaces for public democratic deliberation.

Zack Coleman

Former MSc Student

Zack Coleman graduated with distinction from the MSc in Social Science of the Internet in 2020. His thesis was titled “The Demographics of Disinformation: A Case Study of Targeted Party-Political Advertisements on Facebook in the 2019 General Electio

Dr Regina Connolly

Former Visiting Fellow

Dr Regina Connolly is a Senior Lecturer in Management Information Systems at DCU Business School, where she has responsibility for postgraduate courses in Information Systems.

Dr Alissa Cooper

Former DPhil Student

Alissa Cooper is a doctoral alumna of the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research is about how country-specific regulatory factors and industry paradigms impact Internet engineering.

Toby Coppel

Former Visiting Industry Associate

Toby Coppel is Co-founder and Partner at Mosaic Ventures, a London-based venture capital firm focused on early stage investing across Europe with $300 million under management.

Kim Corti

Former MSc Student

Kim holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Westminster. She is particularly passionate about social scientific research on the internet in relation to food and health.

Juan Leandro Costa

Former MSc Student

Having completed his undergraduate education in International Studies, during his time at the OII Juan focused on computational approaches to social science research, particularly in areas related to the platform economy.

Quentin Cregan

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Where is the Internet?: Correlating domain name and IP allocations with geospatial and socio-economic data. Supervisor: Dr Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2010

J. Ignacio Criado

Former Visiting Fellow

J. Ignacio Criado is Lecturer in Politics and Public Administration, Autonomous University of Madrid. His interests cover public sector reform/modernization, quality/knowledge management in public organizations, and information society policies.

Dr Jeremy Crump

Former Visiting Associate

Jeremy Crump is Director of Strategy at the National Policing Improvement Agency, an agency of the Home Office. This role includes direction of the NPIA's research programme and its science and innovation strategy.

Jackie Cuyvers

Former MSc Student

Jackie is CEO of Convosphere, a Social Intelligence agency that provides insights in over 45 languages. She has over 15 years of working in social intelligence and digital marketing. She has an MBA in International Marketing and is based in London.

Dr Paolo D’Iorio

Former Research Associate

Paolo D'Iorio has a tenured position at the CNRS / ENS, Paris. His interests include collaborative networked research, digital libraries and archives, Open Source in the humanities, and the semantic web.

Joseph D’Urso

Former MSc Student

Joey is interested in social media communities, especially local Facebook groups. He has worked as a journalist specialising in politics, technology and social media for BBC News, BuzzFeed News and Reuters.

Judith Dada

Former MSc Student

Florian Dahlhausen

Former MSc Student

Florian Dahlhausen is a MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute. He is particularly interested in applying computational social science methods to understand human dynamics and collective behaviour through online data.

George Dallas

Former MSc Student

George Dallas is interested in privacy and security on the internet.

Professor Jean-Michel Dalle

Former Visiting Fellow

Jean-Michel Dalle is a Professor at University Pierre & Marie Curie (UPMC) and the Managing Director of Agoranov, a science-based incubator in Paris.

Sam Danello

Former MSc Student

Sam is interested in how ethics of love can inform Internet design. His last job came at Search for Common Ground, a peacebuilding non-profit. He holds a BA in Social Studies from Harvard College.

Dr Huw C. Davies

Former Researcher

Huw's interests and projects can be broadly described as digital sociology - the study of how society shapes technology and vice versa, with ongoing collaboration with Rebecca Eynon.

Peter Davies

Former Visiting Fellow

Peter Davies is a barrister who has held senior legal positions in a number of technology companies, including Microsoft, IBM and Apple Computers. He has acted as a consultant to the OECD on technology law.

Dr Chris Davies

Former Research Associate

Chris Davies runs the MSc in e-Learning at the Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford. His research interests have included literacy development, writing in the workplace and educational uses of ICTs.

Scarlet Dawson Duckworth

Former MSc Student

Scarlet is interested in the role that online spheres play in shaping identity, particularly personal and national identities. She holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Stefano De Sabbata

Former Researcher

Stefano de Sabbata's research focuses on Internet and information geographies, as well as on geographic and mobile information retrieval. He is currently collaborating with Mark Graham on research into geographic bias in search engines.

Dr Ulrike Deetjen

Former MSc Student

Ulrike Deetjen (née Rauer) researched the influence of the Internet on healthcare provision and health outcomes.

Ryan Den Rooijen

Former MSc Student

Thesis: I Predict a Riot? Identifying Offline Spatiotemporally Bound Group Behaviour via Automated Speech Act Classification of Twitter Data

Alec Dent

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Does the quality of an item description on ebay influence price?

Manpreet Deol

Former MSc Student

Manpreet comes to the OII with a background in Engineering. She is passionate about understanding the impact of technology on marginalized communities to ultimately design more inclusive and fair technological infrastructure.

Clémentine Désigaud

Former MSc Student

Prior to joining the OII, Clémentine worked on open data and open government policy for the French government. She holds a BA in Social Sciences and a MA in Marketing and Research from Sciences Po Paris (cum laude).

Eva Didier

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Grieving Online Together: a change in the mourning process and paradigm?

Sophia Dietrich

Former MSc Student

Sophia is interested in online infrastructure, digital platform regulation and the enforcement of data rights. She holds a BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from LSE and has completed a Junior Research Fellowship at UN Global Pulse Kampala.

Rachel Dinh

Former MSc Student

Rachel Dinh is from Los Angeles and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. She previously worked at the World Economic Forum and ITIF. Her main research interest is electronic privacy.

Dr Martin Dittus

Former Data Scientist at the OII

Digital geographer and data scientist. Mass-participation platforms, large-scale data analysis and visualisation, information geographies, social implications of emerging technologies.

Virginie Do

Former MSc Student

Virginie graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (France) with a major in Applied Mathematics and holds a BA in Philosophy from Paris Nanterre University. Prior to joining the OII, she completed research in deep learning at WCM, New York.

Laura Dominguez-Garcia

Former Visiting Doctoral Student

Dominguez-Garcia is a DPhil student at University of Malaga and a Visiting Doctoral Student at the OII.

Dr Caterina Froio

Former Visiting VOX-POL Research Fellow

Caterina Froio joined the OII in 2016 as a Visiting Vox-Pol Reseach Fellow. Before that, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow within the COST-Action funded Project “Structure and Organization of Government” and an Instructor at Sciences Po, France.

Marianna Drake

Former MSc Student

Marianna was a part-time graduate student at the OII. Her research focused on data ethics and the legal, social and economic implications of artificial intelligence.

Katherine Dransfield

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Seeing War through Social Media: Updating Virilio

Katie Draper

Former MSc Student

Katie Draper was a Clarendon Scholar with a background in Archaeology and Anthropology (Oxford 2013). She is interested in analyzing online fan groups and the extent to which online Fan Activism translates to offline political action.

Yujie Duan

Former MSc Student

Yujie Duan holds a Bachelor’s degree in public health from Peking University. She is interested in how to use the internet to improve health system, health care and health behavior.

Dr Elizabeth Dubois

Former MSc Student

Elizabeth Dubois is an OII DPhil alumna. Her research focuses on the role of personal influence in political communication networks.

Dr Alistair Duff

Former Visiting Fellow

Alistair Duff is an academic visitor at the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh. He is emeritus professor of information policy at Edinburgh Napier University.

Stefanie Duguay

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Facebook as a decontextulaized environment: Young People's experience of navigating LGBTQ identities on a social networking site

Professor Soumitra Dutta

Former Visiting Fellow

Soumitra Dutta is the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Business and Technology, and Founder and Director of elab@INSEAD, Fountainbleau, France.

Lilas Duvernois-Guevara

Former MSc Student

Thesis: How do mobile location-based games shape movement patterns in an urban environment?

John Edge

Former Visiting Policy Fellow

John Edge is an impact focused operating executive and board advisor to high growth technology companies. Mr. Edge is a specialist in FinTech, markets infrastructure and data privacy.

Dr Madeleine Clare Elish

Former Research Associate

Madeleine leads the AI on the Ground Initiative at Data & Society, where she and her team investigate the promises and risks of integrating AI technologies into society, including research with Gina Neff on Work and AI.

Silas Elliott

Former MSc Student

Coming from a background in Biology, Silas hopes to use theories of social learning and cultural evolution to understand how Darwinian processes act within the virtual environments that exist online.

Louis Elton

Former MSc Student

Louis graduated from Cambridge (Magdalene) with a Double First in Theology and Religious Studies. Particular focus using Facebook pages to understand violence and ethnoreligious social groups in Sri Lanka, Iraq, and Syria.

Dr Tobias Escher

Former DPhil Student

Tobias Escher has interests in citizen-government relationships online (eParticipation, eGovernment), in political representation as well as e-Social Science methods. He has a background in Communication Studies, Computer Science and Politics.

Dr Bruce Eric Etling

Former DPhil Student

Bruce Etling's research is focused on the impact of the Internet on politics, political participation, and collective action.

Matteo Fabbri

Former MSc Student

Matteo graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy at the University of Bologna. His interests lie in the intersection between artificial intelligence and political theory. 

Didac Fàbregas-Badosa

Former MSc Student

Didac studies the digitalization of Politics. He holds a BA and a MA in Political Science and has been working for the public sector the last years, from the Catalan Government to the EU Commission.

Rebecca Fallon

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Guns and Roses: Online Imagery as Jihadi Participation for Female ISIS Supporters Supervisor: Dr Victoria Nash Completed: 2015

Danuta Farah

Former PA to Professor Luciano Floridi

Danuta is the first point of contact for all matters relating to Professor Floridi.

Maximilian Faschan

Former MSc Student

Max holds an MSc in Business Analysis from Edinburgh University and a BSc in Management from Mannheim University. He is interested in analytical bias and discrimination prevention in AI. Max previously worked as a Tech Advisory Manager at Accenture.

Jamie Fawcett

Former MSc Student

Jamie is interested in online cooperation and collaboration, the open movement and the creation of knowledge commons. Before joining the OII, he worked as a researcher at the Open Data Institute.

Asha Fereydouni

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Wearable health-tracking technologies: motivations of existing users and barriers to mass-adoption Supervisor: Dr William Dutton Completed: 2014

Marc-Aurèle Ferracci

Former MSc Student

At the OII, Marc-Aurèle will draw upon his exposure to economics, digital humanities, and cultural theory to develop critical sociological tools to address the challenge of inequality in the context of the digital.

Fabian Ferrari

Former DPhil Student

Fabian's doctoral research examined the political economy of artificial intelligence.

Lindsay Ferris

Former MSc Student

Prior to the OII, Lindsay worked with several international and US-based organizations working to solve social problems through the use of technology and data. She has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Virginia.

Joao Fiadeiro

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Wikipedia as a co-authorship commmunity: exploring the dynamics of colloboration and article quality Supervisor: Dr Taha Yasseri Completed: 2013

Lucy Firth

Former Visiting Fellow

Lucy Firth is a teacher and researcher at the Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne. At the OII she worked on the sociopsycho impact of the Internet and the Internet's potential in supporting clinicians in humanitarian disasters.

Ndakuna Fonso Amidou

Former MSc Student

Ndakuna Fonso Amidou was an OII MSc student.

Susie Forbath

Former MSc Student

Susie is a master’s student interested in the interplay between design, policy, and users. Prior to studying at the OII, she worked as a user experience designer in the healthcare industry and earned a B.A. from Cornell University.

Dr Heather Ford

Former DPhil Student

Heather Ford is a DPhil alumna who studies how Wikipedians write history as it happens. Her research covers online collaboration, conflict, historiography, alternative media, the Arab Spring and intellectual property rights.

Dr Christopher Foster

Former Researcher

Chris Foster's research focus is on technologies and innovation in developing and emerging markets, with a particular interest on how ICTs can support development of low income groups.

Dr Marcus Foth

Former Visiting Fellow

Marcus Foth is a Senior Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His research pioneers new development approaches towards interactive social networking systems informed by community, social, and urban studies.

Dana Frayne

Former MSc Student

Dana’s interests are inclusive design and assistive technology. She studied Psychology and Human Rights at Barnard College, and she previously worked at the White House, Facebook, and the ACLU.

Dr Nicolas Friederici

Former Postdoctoral Researcher

Nicolas studies digital entrepreneurship and collaborative innovation in challenging environments, such as low-income and post-conflict countries in Africa.

Johanna Friege

Former MSc Student

Johanna is interested in the relations between digital technologies, politics, and society on an individual level.

Axel Froissart

Former MSc Student

Axel is a graduate of McGill University and SciencesPo Paris. Having gained experience at the intersection of international governance and digitalisation, he is particularly interested in the political economy of tech.

Alexander Furnas

Former MSc Student

Thesis: You Are Who You Follow?: Semantic Similarity of Political Partisan's Ego-Networks on Twitter Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2012

Lilla Gabrieli

Former MSc Student

Lilla holds a BA with a focus in American National Security from Harvard University. She has worked for several government agencies, researched at the Harvard Kennedy School, and investigated online disinformation for a counter disinformation company

Devin Gaffney

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Determining the Importance of Geography On Twitter Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2012

Dr Iginio Gagliardone

Former Research Associate

Iginio Gagliardone is Research Fellow in New Media and Human Rights in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford.

Danit Gal

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Encrypted Jihad: Assessment, Implications and Associated Risks. Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2015

Graham Gannon

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Friends like me: Personality and like behaviour on Facebook Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2012

Kurtis Garbutt

Former Research Associate

Kurtis Garbutt is a Research Engineer at University College London where his research focuses on the use of open source data, mapping and agent-based modelling to examine vulnerability and assist NGOs respond to hazards.

Dr Anne Geniets

Former

Dr Anne Geniets was a research associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford.

Sven Giegerich

Former MSc Student

Sven is a trained economist from Mannheim (Heidelberg), and previously worked at the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW). Sven’s research interest lies between market design and institutional rules.

Patrick Gildersleve

Former DPhil Student

Patrick was an OII DPhil student interested in complex networks, wikis, computational social science, social network analysis, data de-anonymization, machine learning.

Shay Gillams

Former MSc Student

Shay holds a BA in History from the University of Cambridge. He is particularly interested in regulation, the ethics of AI, and the economics of the internet.

Julian Gilson

Former MSc Student

Julian is interested in computational social science and forecasting methods. In his research he is developing modelling techniques that produce more accurate and granular predictions of event outcomes.

Benjamin Gittelson

Former MSc Student

MSc Thesis: Linguistic and social niche size impacts word fate across word classes on Reddit

Professor Georg Glasze

Former Academic Visitor

Georg holds the chair of Cultural Geography at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg and is member of the Erlangen Centre Digital Social Sciences and Humanities. His interests include Critical Cartography and Geoweb-Studies.

Monika Glowacki

Former MSc Student

Monika studies the duality of internet technologies as tools for social control and mobilization. She holds an honors BA in Social Studies and Latin American Studies from Harvard, and has worked at an urban innovation research center.

Aaron Gluck-Thaler

Former MSc Student

Aaron Gluck Thaler is a Rhodes Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research focuses on cybersecurity, social movements, and surveillance. Aaron received his B.Eng. from McGill University.

Shawn Goh

Former MSc Student

Shawn's interests lie at the intersection of disinformation, data and democracy. He spent 5 years as a researcher at the Institute of Policy Studies, and holds a BSc in Life Sciences and Sociology from National University of Singapore.

Edgar Gómez Cruz

Former Visiting Doctoral Student

Edgar Gómez is a doctoral student at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. His background is in Communication Studies and Sociology.

Chenzhuo Gong

Former MSc Student

Chenzhuo Gong is a MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Chenzhuo holds a LL.B. in International Politics from Fudan University. His research interest lies in examining the booming influence of social media in public diplomacy.

Olivia Gonzalez

Former MSc Student

Olivia graduated from New York University in 2013 and received her law degree from Fordham Law School in 2016. She is primarily interested in cyber security law and policy.

Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon

Former

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon is a sociologist interested in the internet, social networks, and political engagement. Her research uses large-scale data to analyse the structure and content of political discussions, and how interactions evolve over time.

Bryce Goodman

Former MSc Student

Bryce Goodman works at the intersection of philosophy, technology and entrepreneurship. His research at the OII focused on the economic, legal and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Dragos Gorduza

Former MSc Student

Dragos was born in Romania and moved to France aged 5. He studied political sciences and economics at SciencesPo and data science at the LSE. He enjoys reading, chess and thought-provoking debates around a drink.

Professor Olena Goroshko

Former Visiting Fellow

Olena Goroshko is at the National Technical University, Ukraine. Her interests include psycho- and sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, gender studies, forensic linguistics and distance education.

Robert Gorwa

Former MSc Student

Robert studies the relationship between technology and various International Relations phenomena. He’s particularly interested in how the internet has affected the ways in which states interact with each other and with their own populations.

Will Granger

Former MSc Student

Will Granger was an OII MSc student. He is interested in ethical questions posed by the spread of the Internet, such as the clash between the usefulness of Big Data and concerns over personal privacy.

Richard Grant

Former Visiting Fellow

Richard Grant is a career foreign service officer in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His research at the OII concentrated on the effects of modern information technologies on the practice of diplomacy.

Michael Gribben

Former MSc Student

Michael is interested in how control of information, data, and intellectual property affects political economy. He holds a BA in Applied Mathematics, and was previously a Product Manager at Google.

Dr. Sarah Griffin

Former Research Assistant

Sarah Griffin is a medieval art historian interested in the use of museum collections for teaching, which she investigated as a Research Assistant for ‘Cabinet’ and as a Junior Teaching Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum.

Freya Griffiths

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Transgender disclosure strategies in online social spaces Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2014

Dr Francesco Grillo

Former Visiting Associate

Francesco holds a PhD from the LSE and an MBA from Boston University. He is managing director of Vision & Value and advisor on innovation policies for the European Commission. He regularly writes for Italian and International newspapers.

Clive Gringras

Former Visiting Associate

Clive Gringras, Partner at global law firm, CMS, heads its TMT sector, advising tech clients. Clive co-wrote the game, Elite, for the Archimedes and is author of Gringras: The Laws of the Internet. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Law.

Marianna Griva

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Flaming on YouTube: The Role of Anonymity, Social Norms and Gender Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2013

Dr Darja Groselj

Former MSc Student

Darja Groselj is a DPhil alumna. Her thesis examined the dynamics of information exchange in virtual communities.

Yael Gruzman

Former MSc Student

Yael Gruzman was an MSc Student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research interests include Internet censorship and the impact of environments on Internet use.

Wojciech Gryc

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Influence and Network Evolution in the Political Blogosphere Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2010

Limor Gultchin

Former MSc Student

Limor holds an honours BA in Computer Science from Harvard University. Research interests include algorithmic fairness, transparency and accountability.

Priscilla Guo

Former MSc Student

A native New Yorker, Priscilla holds a B.A. in Technology, Policy, and Society and a secondary in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Harvard University. She previously worked for Facebook, Microsoft, EFF, and NASA JPL.

Tania Gupta

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Transnational Identity Formation and Inter-personal Communication amongst Immigrant Groups in the Gulf Arab States Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2014

Dr Louise Guthrie

Former Visiting Fellow

Louise Guthrie's recent research in Natural Language Processing has focused on text classification, semantic analysis of text, document reliability and security, and technology to discover hidden meanings in text.

Dr Fadhila Haeri Mazanderani

Former DPhil Student

Fadhila Mazanderani was a DPhil candidate at the OII where her work focused on the health information seeking practices of people living with HIV / Aids and the relationship between access to information, patient empowerment and expertise.

Rasmus Hagen

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Sitting on a Filter Bubble: An Examination of Fragmentation in Search Engine Results Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2012

Frank Hangler

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Citizen Participation in Constructing the Smart City Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2014

Stephanie Hankey

Former Visiting Industry Fellow

Stephanie Hankey is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Tactical Technology Collective.

Amelia Hassoun

Former DPhil Student

Amelia Hassoun's research analyses the design, development, and usage of sensor technologies embedded in Singapore’s urban landscape as part of its Smart Nation project, as well as the social life of the data they produce.

Olivia Hawkins

Former MSc Student

Olivia was a part time MSc student at the OII.

William Hawkins

Former MSc 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.

Guangyue He

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Copyright Licensing and the Translation of Scholarly Texts: The Impact of Creative Commons Licensing on English-Chinese Translations Supervisor: Professor Bill Dutton Completed: 2010

Love Hedman

Former MSc Student

Love Hedman is a MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute. He has a background in Experimental Psychology and is interested in cognitive immersion into virtual environments, in particular online PC games.

Ásta Helgadóttir

Former MSc Student

Ásta was a Member of the Icelandic Parliament from 2015-2017 and holds a BA in history from the University of Iceland.

Dr Ellen J. Helsper

Former Survey Research Fellow

Ellen Helsper is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the LSE. At the OII she was responsible for the design, analysis and coordination of the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS) and World Internet Project (WIP) Surveys.

Amélie Henle

Former MSc Student

Amélie holds a BSc in Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics with a minor in Intelligence Studies from the University of Amsterdam. She is interested in the societal and political implications of people’s data sharing behaviour on social media.

Dr Paul Henman

Former Visiting Fellow

Paul Henman is senior lecturer in social policy at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on the nexus between information technologies, public administration and government policy processes.

Emma Heritage

Former Events Officer

Emma manages inward-and outward-facing events activities throughout the department. She is your first point of contact for event-related queries.

Paul Hermann

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Twitter and Movie Sales Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2010

Dr Maria Jose Hernández Serrano

Former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Maria Jose Hernández Serrano is Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Theory and History of Education (Faculty of Education) in the University of Salamanca.

Anais Herne

Former MSc Student

Anais’ interests include the political and legal implications of online data collection, digital microtargeting, and the ability of modern technology to enable disinformation. She has a BA in History and International Relations from KCL.

Benjamin Hewitt

Former MSc Student

Ben was an MSc student interested in data rights, disinformation and AI ethics. He received his BA in Political Science and Philosophy at Tufts University.

Professor Thomas Hillman

Former Visiting Fellow

Thomas Hillman is Associate Professor of information technology and learning at the University of Gothenburg. His research investigates the constantly changing relationship between technological development and transformations in the ways we learn.

Professor Pekka Himanen

Former Visiting Professor

Pekka Himanen is a Professor at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, a Visiting Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, and a principal scientist at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology.

Emmie Hine

Former MSc Student

Emmie is pursuing an MSc in Social Science of the Internet. With a BA in Computer Science and Chinese, her interests include how ethical AI principals can be developed and propagated across organizations.

Mads Hoefer

Former MSc Student

Mads studies the MSc in Social Data Science. He holds a background in PPE, with special interest in behavioural economics. He is keen on learning about the opportunities of digital trace data to improve analyses of human behaviour.

Professor Thomas Hoeren

Former Visiting Fellow

Thomas Hoeren is based at the Institute on Information, Telecommunications and Media Law at Westfaelisch Universitaet. At the OII he focused on Internet governance and notions of 'informational justice' related to access to cyberinfrastructures.

Professor Jens Hoff

Former Visiting Fellow

Jens Hoff is a professor in comparative politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research focuses on the importance of ICT for political institutions and processes, political culture and identity.

Alison Holt FIITP, M.Inst.D, CITP

Former Academic Visitor

Alison Holt is an expert in the Governance of Information Technology and Data, and a business owner. She is a member of the World Class New Zealand Network and committed to mentoring young technology companies and promoting the growth of New Zealand.

Matthew Honeyman

Former MSc Student

Matthew has research interests in the relationship between health, technology and public services. He is on a sabbatical from the policy team at The King's Fund, a UK-based health and social care think tank. He holds a BA in PPE from Oxford.

Anna Hopper

Former MSc Student

Thesis: How Does Political Ideology Shape Attitudes Toward Internet Policy Supervisor: Dr Vicki Nash Completed: 2012

Charles Howell

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Burden of Interconnectedness: A Network Approach to Cross Pressures and Political Participation Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Bright Completed: 2015

Dr Kelle Howson

Former Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr Kelle Howson is a postdoctoral researcher on the Fairwork project. Kelle is a development geographer interested in how ethical certification is reshaping governance and power relations in global networks.

Patrick Hua

Former MSc Student

Patrick is an MSc student in the Social Data Science. He holds a BA in sociology from Southeast University.

Katy Huang

Former MSc Student

Katy was an MSc Social Data Science student at OII. She graduated from George Washington University studying Business Analytics and International Business. She is particularly passionate about customer behavior, human motivation, and social networks.

Tim Hwang

Former Visiting Policy Fellow

Tim Hwang is a researcher and lawyer working at the intersection of technology, public policy, and economics. His current work focuses on the social impact of developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Ayman Idrissi

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Purchasing phone plans: the behavioural effects of using price comparison sites

Carla Intal

Former MSc Student

Carla is from Washington DC, where she studied economics and worked as a researcher for international organizations such as the IMF, World Bank, and UNF. Her research interests are economic networks, fintech, and data viz for social good.

Ben Jackman

Former MSc Student

Ben is a central banker, and studied undergraduate economics in Australia. He is interested in the application of new data techniques (such as natural language processing) to economic questions.

Heesu Jang

Former MSc Student

Heesu Jang studied Political Science and Diplomacy in Seoul. Her research interests include the roles and influences of the internet regarding political decision-making, civic engagement, and the media and government relations.

Professor Nicholas W. Jankowski

Former Visiting Fellow

Nicholas W. Jankowski is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Nijmegen. He has studied community media and other small-scale forms of communication, including use of the Internet in election campaigns.

Buddy Janssen

Former MSc Student

Buddy holds degrees in History and Political Science and has been working for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Commission.

Dr Jakob Linaa Jensen

Former Visiting Fellow

Jakob Jensen has research interests focused on social and democratic uses of the Internet. He is part of a big Danish national research project on the new borderlines and interfaces of the public sphere.

Ran Jiang

Former MSc Student

Ran has experience in advertising, marketing and research. Her interest includes how Internet shapes human behaviours and attitudes in the area of consumption, health and self-cognition.

Dr Jianbin Jin

Former Visiting Fellow

Jianbin Jin is currently an Associate Professor of the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, China. He has interests in the adoption, use and social effects of new media, communication theory and research methods.

Jing Jing

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Diffusion Information and Behaviour on Social Network Site: A Study of Event Recommendation and Participation on douban.com Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2012

Dr Marina Jirotka

Former Research Associate

Marina Jirotka is Professor of Human Centred Computing, Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford.

Hilary Johnson

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Consumer Empowerment: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Online Information Provision, Voice & Exit, and Consumer Power Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon Completed: 2012

Greg Johnson

Former MSc Student

Greg Johnson is a master's student interested in strategies to convert lurkers on social media and community-oriented platforms into active participants. Before joining the OII, Greg managed e-government platforms at the university and city level.

Samuel Johnston

Former MSc Student

Samuel Johnston is an OII MSc student.

Yennie Jun

Former MSc Student

Yennie is interested in computational social science and the intersection of tech with the humanities, especially through the lens of gender.

Kabeleka Kabeleka

Former MSc Student

Kabeleka Kabeleka recently completed a Master’s Degree in Computer Science at Oxford Brookes University in 2016. In 2013, Kabeleka earned his BSC in Computer Science with Distinction in The Copperbelt University’s class of 2013.

Amba Kak

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Unbundling the internet: Locating the user's voice in the debate on zero-rating in India Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2015

Frederike Kaltheuner

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Web archiving the Egyptian revolution: A qualitative study on the ephemerality and endurance of digital content Supervisor: Dr Eric Meyer Completed: 2013

Daniel Kandie

Former MSc Student

Daniel has a background in economics and computer science. His interests lie in digital economies and the role of big data in economic development. He previously worked as a data scientist at the social media start-up 'Tonit'.

Ai Kang

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Collective Cyberbullying on Sina Weibo

Salone Kapur

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Dictatorship Gone Digital: How Authoritarian Regimes are Consolidating their Power in the Internet Age Supervisor: Professor Helen Margetts Completed: 2011

Eglė Karpauskaitė

Former MSc Student

Eglė was a Shirley Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute. She holds a degree in Political Science with a minor in Economics from New York University Abu Dhabi.

Chishimba Kasanga

Former MSc Student

Chishimba holds a master's degree in Journalism and Media Studies from Rhodes University, South Africa. She is passionate about social science research on the Internet concerning Gender and Politics.

Elizabeth Kaufer

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Do Looks Matter? The Effect of Survey Design on Data Quality in Academic Studies on Amazon Mechanical Turk Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2015

Professor Aharon Kellerman

Former Visiting Fellow

Aharon Kellerman is Vice President of the University of Haifa. At the OII he studied the geography of the website production and consumption. His interests include economic and urban geography, timespace studies and social theory and geography.

Justin Kempley

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Patient trust and interaction with online self-diagnosis tools: a comparative study Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2014

Dr Linda Jean Kenix

Former Visiting Fellow

Linda Jean Kenix is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her research interests have focused on the representation of marginal groups in mass media, giving specific attention to the agenda-setting role of media in society.

Dr Tanai Khiaonarong

Former Visiting Fellow

Tanai is a Senior Financial Sector Expert in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund.

Professor Young Mie Kim

Former Visiting Fellow

Young Mie Kim's research centres around new media and democracy; at the OII she will be examining collective action in the new media environment.

Hae Na Kim

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Relationship between Quality of Collaboration Knowledge and Authorship: A Comparative Case Study of Google Knol vs. Wikipedia Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2011

Beatriz Kira

Former MSc Student

Beatriz is a MSc Student at the Oxford Internet Institute and a PhD Student at the University of São Paulo. She is interested in issues involving law and technology, especially internet policy and regulation.

Paula Johanna Kirchhof

Former MSc Student

Paula Johanna is an OII MSc student striving to reduce social inequality by employing online nudges, and is interested in behavioural/social/thick data sciences and their ethical boundaries. Paula Johanna previously worked as a behavioural economist.

Katsushige Kitazawa

Former MSc Student

I worked for the Japanese government and hold a MSc in Meteorology and BS in Physics. My interest is the use of big data and artificial intelligence for Disaster Risk Reduction and Weather business.

Aditta Kittikhoun

Former MSc Student

Aditta graduated from the MSc Social Science of the Internet course in 2019. He possesses a Bachelor Degree in Political Science & Government and French Language from the Macaulay Honors College @ Hunter College (CUNY) in New York.

Susanne Klausing

Former MSc Student

Susanne holds a B.A. in business from the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich and an honours degree in Technology Management from the CDTM. She gained experience in consulting, entrepreneurship and research before joining the OII.

Adam Knight

Former MSc Student

Adam was a part time MSc student at the OII.

Olga Kokh

Former MSc Student

Olga studied Computer Science at New York University before spending 5 years working at YouTube. She has an interest in internet governance and comedy.

Olga Kokoulina

Former MSc Student

Olga’s interests focus on the interface between Law and Technology. She is presently completing her PhD at Copenhagen University on the subject of standards and patents. She has an LL.M. in European Business Law and a Bachelor in Law.

Lukas Kondmann

Former MSc Student

Lukas worked on using data science to improve disaster preparedness and response efforts. He has a background in Quantitative Economics (M.Sc.) from the University of Munich.

Olga Kotova

Former MSc Student

Olga studied physics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. During her studies she worked at the Laboratory of Adaptive Data Processing Methods and at the Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy Solutions of Supramolecular Compounds and Nanostructures.

Sylwia Kowalczuk

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Civic Engagement in Poland: Case Study of the 'Zwolnic Kuzniara' e-tactic Supervisor: Professor Bill Dutton Completed: 2013

Dr Peaks Krafft

Former Senior Research Fellow

Dr. Krafft is an information scientist who studies beliefs, ideology, and institutions in the information society, and works and organizes in the area of public interest computing.

Saumya Krishna

Former MSc Student

Saumya Krishna was an OII MSc student.

Kyle Kroeger

Former MSc Student

Kyle Kroeger is a full-time MSc Student at the OII interested in the ability of the private sector and entrepreneurs to deliver social innovation. He holds a BS in Economics from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr Aleks Krotoski

Former Research Associate

Dr Aleks Krotoski is a researcher and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity, focusing on the makeup of online relationships, online influence, and information diffusion through the social networks of the Web.

Dr Martin Krzywdzinski

Former Research Associate

Martin Krzywdzinski is Professor of International Labour Relations at Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg. As a labour sociologist he works with Mark Graham on projects relating to the future of platform work and fair work standards for this field.

Kelley Kugler

Former MSc Student

Kelley is interested in how thoughtfully designed technology might reduce the global toll of anxiety and foster mental wellness. Her background spans Neuroscience, Fine Art, and Innovation Strategy.

Christopher Kuner

Former Visiting Fellow

Christopher Kuner is a partner in the Brussels office of international law firm Hunton & Williams. He has interests in data protection law, privacy law, private international law, European law, legal aspects of the Internet and electronic commerce.

Luisa Kurth

Former MSc Student

Luisa is interested in the effects of technologies on child development and well-being. She holds a BSc in Psychology from the University of Mannheim and has previously worked at the OECD.

Professor Donna Kurtz

Former Research Associate

Donna Kurtz is the Beazley Archivist, Professor of Classical Art, and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. An art historian, she has interests in classical Greek archaeology and art, and Information Technology and the visual arts.

Gillian Langor

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Role of Online Particpation in Engineers Without Borders: Relating data-driven social roles to actual and perceived influence online Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2011

Francesco Lanzoni

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Context Collapse or Networked Audience? The interaction between self-presentation and social network structures among Facebook users". Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2015

Professor John Laprise

Former Visiting Fellow

John Laprise is an Assistant Professor in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar and serves as a Consulting Scholar to ictQatar.

Marina Laube

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Changing mobility through health information on the mobile Internet Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2012

Daniel Laverick

Former MSc Student

Thesis: A Critical Review of Social Scientific Papers Regarding Twitter: Typologies Insights, and the Purposes of Social Scientific Research Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2012

Jack La Violette

Former MSc Student

With a background in linguistics, Jack is interested in the social semiotics of the internet. His research addresses metapragmatics and discourse studies on platforms like Reddit and Instagram.

Ginette Law

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Internet Accessibility and Use through Mobile Phone Initiatives for Rural and Low Income Populations in Africa Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2010

Christopher Lee

Former MSc Student

Chris was interested in socio-economic policy analysis, particularly relating to inequality and migration. He previously researched with the Ministry of National Development and Prime Minister's Office (Singapore). He holds a BSc in Economics from UC

Michelle (Seng Ah) Lee

Former MSc Student

Michelle (Seng Ah)’s research focused on AI risks in industry and fairness in machine learning. She has been a Data Science Manager at Deloitte Risk Analytics and a graduate of Stanford University.

Sarah Lefkowith

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Credibility and Crisis in Semi-Anonymous Communities Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Bright Completed: 2014

Julia Lefkowitz

Former DPhil Student

Julia was an OII DPhil student interested in tabloidization, online journalism, journalism and democracy, public sphere, corpus linguistics, and discourse analysis.

Annie Lehman-Ludwig

Former MSc Student

Annie is interested in digital authoritarianism and the nexus between emerging technology and human rights. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and Art History from Brown University.

Chun (Raphael) Leung

Former MSc Student

Chun (Raphael) Leung was an OII MSc student.

Zachary Levine

Former MSc Student

Zachary Levine was an OII MSc student.

Joanna Li How Cheong

Former MSc Student

Joanna worked as a Government Data Scientist, building and implementing predictive models into front-line operations, and supporting evidence-based policy-making. She holds a BSc in Mathematics.

Dr Han-Teng Liao

Former DPhil Student

Han-Teng Liao is a student of various disciplines whose research aims to reconsider the role of keywords (sociolinguistics) and hyperlinks (webometrics) in shaping groups (governance) as bearers of ideas (political communications).

Madeline Libbey

Former MSc Student

Madeline is interested in the political and social dynamics of digital movements. She worked at Access Now, Stanford's Global Digital Policy Incubator and the Aspen Institute's Tech Policy Hub. She holds a B.A. from Stanford in Political Science.

Dr Sonia Liff

Former Visiting Fellow

Sonia Liff is a Reader in Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour at Warwick Business School. She has research interests in gender and employment; technical change and occupational and skill needs; equality and diversity.

Jordan Lincenberg

Former MSc Student

Jordan is interested in the intersection of technology and culture. He has experience in politics, education, and business – most recently leading product development at an AI startup.

Nick Lindseth

Former MSc Student

Nick studied for an MSc in Social Science of the Internet. He holds a BA in English and Political Science from Brown University.

Dr Dimitra (Mimie) Liotsiou

Former Researcher

Mimie was a postdoctoral researcher on the Computational Propaganda project. Her research interests include social influence, causal inference, computational social science, and data science, particularly using real-world data of online interactions.

Professor Miriam Lips

Former Visiting Fellow

Miriam Lips is Professor of E-Government at Victoria University of Wellington. Her interests include identity management, citizen-centric government, e-participation, government 2.0, e-records management, personalisation, and digital citizenship.

Isabella Litke

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The rhetorical constructions of Citizenship Online: A case study of the Obama Administration's Open Government Initiative Supervisor: Dr Victoria Nash Completed: 2013

Tania Loke

Former MSc Student

Having completed an MSc in Comparative Social Policy at Oxford, Tania was interested in reconsidering such policy issues from a data science perspective. She was a Rhodes Scholar from Malaysia, where she served as research officer to an MP.

Xinxin Long

Former MSc Student

Thesis: How Chinese foreign students at UK negotiate their transnational identities on different social networking websites Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2014

Amy Longdon

Former MSc Student

Thesis: #bbcqt: The Increasingly Social Methods of Online Communication and Interaction with Regards to the BBC's Question Time Supervisor: Dr Vicki Nash Completed: 2012

Juan López Martín

Former MSc Student

Juan was interested in the use of quantitative methods to study the impact of social media on political behavior. He has a background in Social Psychology.

Katherine Lou

Former MSc Student

Katherine holds an AB in Sociology, secondary Computer Science, from Harvard University. She's interested in building tech that enables meaningful human connections.

Dr Max Loubser

Former DPhil Student

Max Loubser is a DPhil student at the OII and Magdalen College. His thesis research is on governance in peer production projects with a focus on Wikipedia.

Liane Lovitt

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Student Data Privacy Protection in Educational Technology: Influence of Public Discourse on Policy Enactment and Implementation Supervisor: Dr Victoria Nash Completed: 2015

Yin Yin Lu

Former DPhil Student

Yin is fascinated by the intersection between language and technology. She researches persuasion in the context of new media, focusing specifically on the rhetoric and resonance of Brexit tweets.

Henning Lueke

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Viability of non-monetary incentive systems viable for profit-seeking, non-charitable crowdsourcing projects Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2011

Anna Lutz

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Story You Tell Yourself: Self-Presentation in Online Support Group Supervisor: Dr Kathryn Eccles Completed: 2015

Christoph Lutz

Former Visiting Doctoral Student

Christoph Lutz is a doctoral student at the Institute for Media and Communications Management of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His background is in Sociology and he is investigating the social impact of new communication technologies.

Huiyi Lyu

Former MSc Student

Huiyi has a particular interest in e-government and political implications of China's economic rise.

Linda Ma

Former MSc Student

Linda was a student on the MSc in Social Sciences of the Internet programme.

Alexander Ma

Former MSc Student

Alexander is an MSc Social Science of the Internet alumnus.

Caio MacHado

Former MSc Student

Caio obtained his law degree from the University of São Paulo and his masters in technology law from the Sorbonne Law School. He was interested in the regulation of distributed ledger technologies and their applications.

Leonard Mack

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Innovation in Open Data - A comparative analysis of what makes Open Data thrive Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2014

Jasmine Madavi

Former MSc Student

Jasmine is a MSc student from San Francisco, California. Before joining the OII, she completed a BA in Sociology, with a concentration in Science and Medicine. She has worked in tech for 5 years, writing user-facing content for Google.

Dr Christine Madsen

Former DPhil Student

Christine Madsen is a librarian and academic whose research aims to re-centre libraries at the heart of all the disciplines, and re-focus the work of librarians on creating a space for the transformation of information into knowledge.

Lindiwe Makgalemele

Former MSc Student

Lindiwe holds a BA in History and Science from Harvard University.

Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado

Former Visiting Doctoral Student

Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado is researching the structure of mobilization online networks against antipiracy law: supranational and national activism in the European Union (the case of Spain).

Simone Malekar

Former MSc Student

Simone holds a BSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology from the University of Manchester. She is interested in digital inequalities, digitisation in emerging economies, and social mobility.

Momin Malik

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Networks of collaboration and field emergence in 'Internet Studies' Supervisor: Dr Eric T. Meyer Completed: 2012

Dr Chris Mann

Former Visiting Fellow

Chris Mann is a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Her pioneering work on methodological and ethical issues in doing Internet-research underpinned her research at the OII.

Megan Mantaro

Former MSc Student

Megan holds a BSc in International Business from Northeastern University, and worked as a researcher for BCG. She is interested in applying AI and data to international trade & development, social impact, and sustainability topics.

Dr Alessandro Mantelero

Former Visiting Fellow

Alessandro Mantelero is aggregate professor of Private Law at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Director of Privacy and Faculty Fellow at the Nexa Center for Internet and Society. His research is focused on data protection, Big Data and privacy.

Dr James Manyika

Former Advisory Board Member

James Manyika is a Director at McKinsey & Company and one of the leaders of their Global High Tech Media and Telecom Practice based in Silicon Valley. He leads the McKinsey Global Institute, the firm's business and economics research arm.

Nahema Marchal

Former DPhil Student

Nahema was a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project.

Mischa Marcuta

Former MSc Student

Mischa received his undergraduate degree from University College London and works at Microsoft as an application development specialist.

Ellie Marshall

Former MSc Student

Thesis: From Variable to Linkable: How digital traces identify in the disability community in Britain Supervisor: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen Completed: 2015

Erik Martin

Former MSc Student

Erik Martin was an OII MSc student interested in online media and democracy. Erik previously worked at Unity, and the White House Office of Science and Tech Policy. He has a BA in New Media and Global Civics from the University of Maryland.

Dr Ursula Martin

Former Visiting Fellow

Ursula Martin holds appointments at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Cambridge. She worked at the OII to explore strategies for the ACM to promote diversity and the status of women in the computing professions.

Jessica Mason

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Mixed Methods Investigation of diability, demography, and Internet Use Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2015

Claire McBride

Former MSc Student

Claire is a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied Cognitive Science and German. Her interests include data privacy, ethics, and technology policy.

Lily McElwee

Former MSc Student

Lily is interested in partisan uses for big data and social media, digital diplomacy, and high-tech cross-border investment. She holds a BA (hons) in Political Science and minor in Modern Languages (Chinese and German) from Stanford University.

Christopher McIntyre

Former MSc Student

Chris wants to use internet-related technologies to improve public services. He is a 2017 Rhodes Scholar, previously worked at BCG, and co-founded Policy, an online electoral engagement tool.

Lauren McKarus

Former MSc Student

Lauren McKarus was an OII MSc student.

Hilary McLauchlin

Former MSc Student

Hillary is a recent graduate of Harvard University with an A.B. in History & Literature and East Asian Studies. She is particularly interested in digital culture, surveillance, and internet governance.

Amy McLeod

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Developing social media practices: How a community-based initiative in Birmingham supports online participation Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon Completed: 2012

Jazza McMillan-Clenaghan

Former MSc Student

Jazza McMillan-Clenaghan is a part time MSc student at the OII.

Gemma McNeil-Walsh

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Out of Africa? Mapping online news coverage of the Ebola epidemic 2014-15 Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2015

Patrick McSharry

Former Research Associate

Dr Patrick McSharry is Head of Catastrophe Risk Financing at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.

Darius Meadon

Former MSc Student

Darius studied social science at the University of Cape Town and LSE. He currently works for an AI Healthcare technology firm and is in interested in the ethics of applying AI to medical data.

Sophie Melville

Former MSc Student

Sophie Melville was an MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute. She is interested in the intersection between gender, identity and technology.

Ashwin Menon

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Aadhar: Illison or Panacea: A design analysis of the Unique ID system in India and its potential societal impact Supervisor: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen Completed: 2015

Alicia Mergenthaler

Former MSc Student

Alicia graduated from the MSc in Social Data Science course in 2019. She received her bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University and worked in data analytics at a startup in San Francisco.

Dr Gustavo Mesch

Former Visiting Fellow

Gustavo Mesch is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is studying patterns of nternet use and the role of the Internet in adolescents' social relationships and the nature of social networks online and offline in Israel over time.

Elisabeth Michaels

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Citations Among Newspapers and Blogs in the 2008 U.S. Election Cycle Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2010

Professor Christopher Millard

Former

Christopher Millard has extensive experience of advising international businesses on information law. His current research focuses on international privacy regulation, information governance, and the impact of the Internet on privacy.

Jack Miller

Former MSc Student

Jack is interested in the intersection of the Internet and mental health. He holds a BA in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford, where he conducted research on neuroplasticity.

Desiree Miloshevic

Former Visiting Associate

Desiree Miloshevic is International Affairs and Policy Adviser at Afilias. She has participated actively in the areas of DNS policy and Internet governance, including work as an expert technical and policy consultant for new top-level domains.

Dr Gianluca Miscione

Former Visiting Fellow

Dr Miscione has a long lasting interest in organizational aspects of information technologies in use in the most diverse contexts. He has conducted and contributed to research in the domains of health, planning and currencies.

Allison Mishkin

Former MSc Student

Allison was focused on technology and child development. Her research interests include STEM education, the influence of home, school, and social environments unto technology outcomes, women in STEM, and how to maximize positive outcomes.

Megha Mishra

Former MSc Student

Megha is a graduate in journalism from the University of Delhi and holds an extensive experience at using digital media for social development. She is looking to build on her work involving online political campaigns, digital literacy and livelihoods

Anushka Mittal

Former MSc Student

Anushka is interested in the intersection of law, development and technology. She holds a degree in Law and Humanities from Gujarat National Law University, India. Prior to joining OII, she worked as a lawyer and researcher in India.

Lehlohonolo Moche

Former MSc Student

Lehlohonolo completed a BEng in Industrial Engineering. She was a 2018 Rhodes Scholar. She was interested in how organisations mine, consolidate, analyse and use data to create end to end visibility in their supply and value chains.

Goda Mockutė

Former MSc Student

Goda holds an MA with honours in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh and is currently studying for an MSc in Social Data Science.

Laura Molloy

Former DPhil Student

Laura is interested in the digital curation and information / digital literacy practices within specific research areas and professions. At the OII, she focused on digital curation and digital literacy skills in UK visual art professional practice.

Eric Morrison

Former MSc Student

Eric was an MSc student interested in design ethics and social computing. Eric has worked as a user experience researcher at Google and Disney, and holds a BA in History and Anthropology from Yale University.

Yonatan Moskowitz

Former MSc Student

Thesis: A Theoretical Model of Externalities in Anonymity Decisions Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown Completed: 2012

Bill Mulligan

Former MSc Student

Bill holds a BS in Biochemistry (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016) where he researched developmental biology. He is interested how non textual communication shapes the scientific story.

Tim Muntinga

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Home Sapiens Inquisitio: Trust in the Search Engine or the Result Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2014

Terrens Muradzikwa

Former MSc Student

Terrens studies how digital innovation and entrepreneurship can contribute to economic development and good governance. He was a 2018 Rhodes scholar from Zimbabwe. Terrens received his BA with high honours in Economics from Harvard University.

Olga Musayev

Former MSc Student

Olga Musayev is an OII MSc student and is interested in testing the limits of prediction and building anti-discrimination software.

Paige Mustain

Former DPhil Student

Paige was an OII DPhil candidate whose research bridges the political economy of communication and cultural studies focusing specifically on technology-driven education models serving low-income youth.

Caitlin Myles

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The amplification of inequality and the case of crowd mapping sexual violence Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2014

Anisha Nadkarni

Former MSc Student

Anisha is a sociologist by background. She is interested in the cultural norms surrounding online sharing and social network use, as well as the role of personal communication technologies in changing practices of intimacy.

Poonnama Narkkitikul

Former MSc Student

Thesis: You Will When You Believe: How Perceptions of Website Content Pwnership Affect Responsiveness and Formality in the Thai Mobile-Telecommunications Industry Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2011

Jack Nassetta

Former MSc Student

Jack focuses on platform responses to state activity, from covert influence operations to government consolidation efforts. He has previously conducted investigations at Graphika and the Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

David Neale

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003: obscenity, 'basic standards' and freedom of expression online Supervisor: Dr Vicki Nash Completed: 2011

Dr Turkay Salim Nefes

Former Research Associate

Dr Turkay Salim Nefes is a sociologist working on online/offline diffusion and impacts of knowledge from different angles. He is currently collaborating with Jonathan Bright in investigating online conspiracy theories.

Professor Gina Neff

Former Professor of Technology & Society

Professor Neff is the Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge. She is a sociologist who studies innovation, the digital transformation of industries, and how new technologies impact work.

Dr Ted Nelson

Former Fellow

Ted Nelson occupies a unique place in the computer field, a 'systems humanist' designer whose vision of a Utopian world of intellect focused around the computer screen foresaw (from the 1960s) the kind of cyberworld that the Internet has opened.

Greyson Nevins-Archer

Former MSc Student

Greyson is an aspiring Internet nerd that has contributed research and code to a range of companies and non-profits. He hopes to explore the Internet in relation to the United States and transnational laws that apply to it.

Raymond Newell

Former MSc Student

Raymond is interested in social media and its influence on elections. He holds a BA in PPE from the University of Buckingham and previously co-authored Theresa May's biography 'May at 10'.

Nicole Ng

Former MSc Student

Nicole was a government lobbyist and qualitative consumer researcher in South East Asia, with a History BA from Columbia U. She's interested in information diets of elites, the politics in code, and novel user behaviors in mobile-first regions.

Annabel Ngien

Former MSc Student

Annabel holds a BSocSci (Hons) in Communications and New Media from the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include new media and wellbeing, the health effects of Internet use and socio-psychology of social media.

Dang Nguyen

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Internet-based humour as civil resistance in authoritarian regimes Supervisor: Dr Vili Lehdonvirta Completed: 2015

Wei-Feng Ni

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Role of Social Media in Covering Developing Countries: The Case of Foreign Correspondents in China Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2010

Asger Nim

Former MSc Student

Asger holds a bachelor's degree in Media Studies from Aarhus University and a master's degree in Social Science from Uppsala University.

Dr Safiya Umoja Noble

Former Research Associate

Dr Safiya Noble is an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Department of Information Studies. Her work focuses on the design of digital media platforms and their impact on society, including work on public education on AI & algorithms with Gina Neff.

Jakob Nordfeldt

Former MSc Student

After completing his BSc degree at the Stockholm School of Economics, Jakob has continued exploring how consumption is changing and has founded Skrym - a logtech startup reducing emissions in eCommerce.

Molly Norris

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Application of Social Network Analysis (SNA) to the U.S. List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2012

Silvia Nunez Gomez

Former MSc Student

Silvia's interests include the use of computational methods to study and understand social and economic problems, as well as the impact of public policies on them. Before coming to the OII, Silvia worked as an economist at the Mexican Central Bank.

Dr Roy Nyberg

Former DPhil Student

Roy Nyberg is an OII DPhil student. He has interests in the area of organizational theory and technological innovation.

Sophie Nye

Former MSc Student

Sophie is interested in youth participation and digital publics. She has spent 3 years working with tech companies as a strategist in a research agency, and holds a BA in History from Jesus College.

Professor Gregory O’Hare

Former Visiting Fellow

Gregory O'Hare is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science & Informatics at University College Dublin. His research interests include distributed Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems, and mobile and ubiquitous computing.

Osaro Odemwingie

Former CSPP Visitor

Osaro Odemwingie is a human rights and development worker. At the OII he undertook research on the impact of ICTs on advocacy for transparency and accountability in governance, focusing on the Campaign For Freedom of Information Act in Nigeria.

Carl Öhman

Former DPhil Student

Carl Öhman was an OII DPhil Student.

Olivia Ong

Former MSc Student

Olivia is interested in how data can improve public policy and improve social inequalities. She holds a BA in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford.

Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen

Former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

Anne-Marie Oostveen has interests in the social implications of new and emerging technologies, privacy aspects in relation to ICT, online activism, user participation as a practical form for (computer) system design, and HCI.

Eva Orszaghova

Former MSc Student

Eva holds a BA in Economics and Business with East European Studies from UCL. She used to be a Brand Specialist and a Vendor manager in Amazon Retail in London and Stockholm. In 2021 she started a position of Account Executive in Amazon Web Services

Juan Ortiz Frueler

Former MSc Student

Before joining the OII, Juan was an activist, member of an Argentinian human rights NGO. With a degree in Law (Di Tella, 2010) and a Masters in Public Policy (Oxford, 2015), he is interested in the impact of the Internet on politics and inequality.

Lisa Oswald

Former MSc Student

Lisa holds a MSc in psychology from the University of Kassel, Germany, with a focus on social psychology in the context of sustainability and climate change. She has worked at the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR).

Valery Otieno

Former MSc Student

Valery Otieno is interested in the power of digital culture in African media representation. She holds a BA in History from Pomona College (USA) and has worked at Google and African Women Development Fund USA.

Professor John Palfrey

Former Research Associate

John Palfrey is Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School. His research and teaching is focused on the impact of the Internet on democracy.

Chrysanthi Papoutsi

Former DPhil Student

Chrysanthi Papoutsi has a background in Management Science and Information Systems. Her current work focuses on information privacy perceptions and practices of health and IT professionals in HIV clinics.

Tulsi Parida

Former MSc Student

Tulsi is an OII MSc student and Pershing Square Scholar. She is interested in learning about how internet technology can improve educational outcomes in the Global South.

Dr Sora Park

Former Visiting Fellow

Sora Park is an Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. Her research focuses on the digital media users and digital inclusion policy. At OII she is undertaking research on the relationship between online and offline realities.

Dr Han Woo Park

Former Visiting Fellow

Han Woo Park conducts research on various computer-mediated communication issues, focusing on the use of new communication technologies in extending social networks and the role of communication in scientific, technical, and innovative activities.

Subin Park

Former MSc Student

Subin studied Business Administration at Seoul National University and graduated with distinction. She also had an exchange semester at Rotman Commerce Management of the University of Toronto and has extensive work experience at Samsung.

Robin Park

Former MSc Student

Robin is interested in the digitalization of politics and data-led policy design. She holds a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Williams College.

Professor Helen Partridge

Former Visiting Fellow

Professor Helen Partridge is based in the Faculty of Science and Technology at QUT, Brisbane, Australia. At the OII she undertook a study exploring people's information practices within a web 2.0 world.

Rose Payne

Former MSc Student

Rose’s interest in global digital economy-building exercises and upholding digital rights comes from her work for United Nations agencies and the GSMA (the mobile trade association). She holds a BA in English Lit. from Oxford University.

Adena Peckler

Former MSc Student

Adena received a dual BA at the George Washington University in both Asian Studies and International Affairs, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Her interests are digital inequality and the provision of broadband to rural areas.

Jon Penney

Former DPhil Student

Jon Penney is an OII DPhil alumnus. His research interests include public law, intellectual property, and technology law, both separately and where these areas intersect.

Edward Percarpio

Former MSc Student

Before joining the OII, Edward worked in international trade consulting in Brussels and holds a BS in International History from Georgetown. His current research focuses on harmonizing philosophies of privacy and architectures of surveillance.

Antonella Perini

Former MSc Student

Antonella holds a BA in International Relations from Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina) and an MA in International Relations Europe-Latin America from Università di Bologna. She works at a civil society organization political innovation projects.

Ross Petchler

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Cheap talk in online crowdsourcing contests Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2013

Dr Jenny Pickerill

Former Visiting Fellow

Jenny Pickerill is a lecturer in Human Geography at Leicester University. She has a particular interest in Internet activism, and is currently exploring anti-war activism in Britain, and anti-capitalist activism and everyday life.

Umika Pidaparthy

Former MSc Student

Umika has worked as an online producer for Al Jazeera English and CNN. She has a BA in Sociology and Journalism from Emory University and is interested in the interactions between traditional news media and social networks.

Olivia Pierce

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Mapping and understanding the geography of Flickr geotaggers Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2011

Matthew Pierri

Former MSc Student

Matt is a 26-year-old Australian with backgrounds in journalism and in law. He is interested in exploring how advocacy and social change interact with online platforms, and issues around the governance and regulation of data and AI.

Mira Pijselman

Former MSc Student

Mira studies at the intersection of technology and moral philosophy, with an emphasis on the development of technology for social good. She has worked previously in technology governance and holds an HBA from the University of Toronto.

Rachel Pollack

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Opening the Black Box: In Search of Algorithmic Transparency Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2016

Vyacheslav W. Polonski

Former DPhil Student

Vyacheslav Polonski an OII DPhil alumnus, specialising in network science and the sociology of the Internet. His research focused on the structural aspects of collective behaviour in online communities.

Ms Sarah Porter

Former Visitor

Sarah is best known for leading Jisc’s innovation work for over ten years, championing the use of digital technologies to enhance learning, teaching, research.

Ben Porter

Former MSc Student

Ben is a recent graduate of Harvard College (Economics Concentration, Astrophysics Secondary). He studied for an MSc in Social Data Science.

Dr Alison Powell

Former SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow

Alison Powell has interests in in community informatics, Internet policy, peer production, culture and technology, and wireless infrastructure. Her current research focuses on the social and political implications of networked communication.

Dr Lucy Power

Former DPhil Student

Lucy Power examines the shifting boundaries of the modern life-science laboratory. Her thesis focused on determining the impact of online tools on the research practices of life scientists.

Dr Cornelius Puschmann

Former Visiting Fellow

Cornelius Puschmann is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin’s School of Library and Information Science (BSLIS) and a research associate at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG).

Cao Qitong

Former MSc Student

Qitong Cao was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College. He was interested in quantitative social science research and the internet’s sociopolitical impacts. He holds a BA and an MS from Stanford University.

Dorian Quelle

Former MSc Student

Dorian studied for an MSc in Social Data Science at the OII. He also holds a BA in Corporate Management and Economics from Zeppelin University.

Professor Charles D. Raab

Former Visiting Fellow

Charles Raab is Professor of Government at the University of Edinburgh. He has interests in data protection, public access to information, e-government, data-sharing, police cooperation, e-democracy, surveillance, as well as regulatory policy.

Elisha Gaspar Rachovitsky-Duarte

Former MSc Student

Elisha Gaspar Rachovitsky-Duarte was an OII MSc student.

Danica M. Radovanovic

Former PhD Chevening Scholar

Danica Radovanovic was the 2009/10 Chevening Scholar. Her research focuses on the influence of information technologies and virtual communication in the context of social media, through theoretical and practical implications of new networking forms.

Dr Babak Rahimi

Former Visiting Fellow

Babak Rahimi's current research is on the implications of ICTs for Shi'i Islam in Iran and Iraq, especially how the Internet contributes to Shi'i politics online.

Gautam Raju

Former Visiting Policy Fellow

Gautam Raju is the Managing Director, Europe of Purpose. At Purpose, Gautam has overseen public mobilisation campaigns and advocacy strategies on misinformation, global health, digital rights, citizen engagement and democratic reform.

Godofredo Ramizo Jr

Former DPhil Student

Godo was an OII DPhil Student interested in platform economies, on-demand ride-hailing platforms in Southeast Asia, governance reform, and the developmental impact of technology.

Amaru Villanueva Rance

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Gaze-Translucency in Computer-Mediated Interactions Subtitle: Ways of seeing, being seen, and being seen to be seeing online Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2010

Terje Rasmussen

Former Visiting Fellow

Terje Rasmussen is Professor of Media Studies and Digital Media at the University of Oslo. His interests include social and technical changes of the Internet, Internet governance, the Internet in everyday life, ethics of the media, and social theory.

Jan Philipp Rau

Former MSc Student

Jan is interested in questions about the digital transformation of politics and society, e.g. echo chambers in social media or the crisis of democracy. He has a background in Political Science, Sociology and Social Psychology.

Paulius Rauba

Former MSc Student

Paulius Rauba is a Shirley Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute and holds a BSc in Economics and Politics. He has work experience as a Data Scientist and a Data Analyst, and has been teaching Data Analytics at coding schools.

Cameron Raymond

Former MSc Student

Cameron holds an Honours B.Comp from Queen's University (Computer Science, Political Studies). His interests span network science, machine learning and computational social science – focusing on political communication online.

Katarina Rebello

Former MSc Student

Katarina was an MSc candidate at the OII. She was previously the Director of CODE in Washington DC, where she worked with US federal agencies and other governments around the world to use data and technological change for the public good.

Jannie Reher

Former MSc Student

Jannie Reher is interested in the internet’s influence on education, in particular Massive Open Online Courses. After graduating with bachelor degrees in business and economics from the University of St. Gallen, she worked in consulting.

Dr Bianca Reisdorf

Former Research Assistant

Bianca Reisdorf holds a Diploma in Sociology (2008) from Bielefeld University, Germany. She has interests in media sociology (particularly new media) and social stratification, and has worked for public relations agencies and the German print media.

Katherine Reiss

Former MSc Student

Katherine is interested in exploring the personal and societal ramifications of the increasing digitization of people's lives.

Jessica Richman

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Donor Motivation and Recipient Selection in Online Philanthropy: The Case Study of Kiva.org Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2010

Dr Wolf Richter

Former DPhil Student

Wolf Richter researched the potential role of Social Entrepreneurship in addressing the market failure in digital goods. His research benefits from his dual background in IP Law and Computer Sciences and his newly developed passion for China.

Rachel Ricucci

Former MSc Student

Rachel is interested in the application of recommender software systems in e-commerce. She has worked in consumer retail and private equity, and holds a BA in English and Art History from Williams College.

Felix Rieseberg

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Live and in Real-Time': How temporal sorting influences the perception of information relevance Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2011

Léonie Rivière

Former MSc Student

Léonie was a full time MSc Student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Prior to joining the OII, she was involved in different startups and completed a BA in Political Science and Communications at Ludwig-Maximilians-University.

Dr Sarah Roberts

Former Research Associate

Sarah Roberts is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. Her research focusses on information work and workers, collaborating with Gina Neff on AI and work.

Professor Gene Rochlin

Former Visiting Fellow

Gene Rochlin is Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley. During his time at the OII, he worked on issues of security, dependency, and embedding of IT and other electronic networks.

Luis Fernando Rodríguez Garcia

Former Visiting Doctoral Student

Fernando Rodríguez is a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant at the Department of Constitutional Law at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Madrid.

Professor Inma Rodríguez-Ardura

Former Visiting Fellow

Inma Rodríguez-Ardura is researching the Internet's impact on pricing strategies and price competition, attitudinal outcomes in consumer adoption of e-commerce recommendation systems, and the role and influence of motivations in online consumption.

Professor Robert D. Rogers

Former Research Associate

Robert Rogers is Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Recently, he has begun to investigate the neural mechanisms of the cognitive biases that promote problem gambling behaviour.

Olga Romanova

Former MSc Student

I studied bioengineering and global health/ health policy as an undergraduate. Most recently, I completed a Master's in Public Policy here at Oxford. I am interested in the intersection of health, technology and policy.

Julia Rone

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Anonymous Bulgaria: Hacking Politics Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2013

Michael Rosenbloom

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The SOPA Protests: A case study on Internet Activism Supervisor: Professor Bill Dutton Completed: 2013

Professor Seamus Ross

Former Visiting Fellow

Seamus Ross is Dean of the Faculty of Information (commonly known as the iSchool) at the University of Toronto. He is interested in approaches to ensuring the long term accessibility of the materials created or represented in digital form.

Katherine Rother

Former MSc Student

Katherine graduated from UCLA with degrees in Anthropology and French & Francophone Interdisciplinary Studies. Her research interests include digital communications, the intersections between life online and offline, and online identity.

Alexandra Rottenkolber

Former MSc Student

After finishing her B.Sc. in Physics and Geography, Alexandra continued with a Master’s degree in Public Policy. Her interest in combining different approaches to answer societal questions led her to the field of Social Data Science.

Radu Rovin

Former MSc Student

Thesis: What Makes an Online Game a Successful Learning Application? A Cross-Application Analysis Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2012

Samuel Rowe

Former MSc Student

Samuel Rowe is interested in the unintended consequences of regulating the Internet. He is a Queen Mother Scholar of Middle Temple and works in policy for Yoti. He is still waiting for the results of his Voigt-Kampff test.

Mor Rubinstein

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Hackers, Advocates and Politicians: Civic Society Groups and their role in open Government Data Supervisor: Dr Eric Meyer Completed: 2014

Mary Rundle

Former Visiting Fellow

Mary Rundle is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School. Her interests include how new tools for digital identity management can strengthen user control and contribute to a person's autonomy.

Arrix Ryce

Former MSc Student

Arrix graduated from the Social Science of the Internet course in 2019. He holds a BS in Biochemistry and a BA in Religion, Medicine, and Society, both from the University of Miami.

Hamza Salem

Former MSc Student

Hamza holds a BA in politics and computer programming from NYU. His research interests include using data to understand and predict political behaviour, mass mobilization, and social movements.

Natalie Saltiel

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Digital Witness and Trust in Interpersonal Relationships Supervisor: Dr Andy Przybylski Completed: 2015

Cory Salveson

Former MSc Student

Cory holds a B.S. in Multidisciplinary Studies and has worked in IT for learning and knowledge management systems. He's interested in how themes of power, social mobility, and ethics interact with shifts in knowledge production and education online.

Anna Samoilenko

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: A quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics Supervisor: Dr Taha Yasseri Completed: 2013

Dr Christian Sandvig

Former Visiting Fellow

Christian Sandvig is an Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He researches tensions between social, technical, and legal mechanisms of control in the development of communication technologies.

Lisa Sargood

Former Visiting Associate

Lisa Sargood is a digital professional who has driven BBC Vision's factual multiplatform strategy with projects such as Springwatch, Virtual Revolution, Wildlife Finder, LabUK and Wonders of the Universe.

Patrick Savoie

Former MSc Student

Patrick is a student on the MSc in Social Data Science.

Manuel Schäffer

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Facebook's Timeline: managing the self in a new online exhibition space Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2012

Katie Scheibner

Former MSc Student

Katie has a background in Computer Science, International Security, Computational Linguistics, and National Defense. Katie was a 2020 Marshall Scholar, and is interested in social networks, data visualization, and digital politics and governance.

Menno Schellekens

Former MSc Student

Menno uses data science to make housing markets accessible and transparent. He has crunched data for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, an MP, and customers in the private sector. He holds a BSc from Leiden University College.

Rebecca Schild

Former MSc Student

Thesis: (Re)viewing India's UID Inititative: Towards a Theory of e-Governance, Aesthetics and Change Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2013

Jesper Schlaeger

Former Visiting Doctoral Student

Jesper Schlaeger is a PhD Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science. His academic work focuses on Internet-mediated changes of power relations within the Chinese political system.

Noah Schöppl

Former MSc Student

Noah gained experience in social entrepreneurship before joining the OII and holds a BSc in Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics (PPLE) from the University of Amsterdam.

Hendrik Schriefer

Former MSc Student

Hendrik is an OII MSc student and an entrepreneur. He has co-founded tech startups and holds a BSc in psychology. He is interested in researching human emotions in a digital environment from an academic and a business perspective.

Hope Schroeder

Former MSc Student

Hope Schroeder was an MSc student interested in language data, social networks, XR, and more. She holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with Honors from Stanford University.

Julia Schuller

Former MSc Student

With a BSc. in Informatics and a Minor in Philosophy from the TU Munich Julia is interested in responsible strategies to guide the technological advance.

Erin Schulte

Former MSc Student

Erin Schulte researched online human trafficking and terrorist networks. She co-founded Defense Footprint and the anti-trafficking non-profit All Walks Project. She was a Marshall Scholar and graduated from King’s College London in 2018.

Christian Schwieter

Former MSc Student

Christian holds a BA in World Politics from Leiden University and has worked at the Clingendael Institute, focusing on EU governance. He is interested in data visualisation and how social media structures political communication.

Ben Scott

Former MSc Student

Ben graduated from the MSc in Social Science of the Internet course in 2019. Ben has worked as a data analyst in the public sector for over ten years and holds a BA in Social Science.

Kassie Scott

Former MSc Student

Kassie was a Social Data Science MSc student. She has worked in Romania, Liberia, and, most recently, Washington, DC with the Urban Institute. She holds a BA in English and Sociology with honors from Washington and Lee University.

Wendy Seltzer

Former Visiting Fellow

Wendy Seltzer is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. She founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, and speaks frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the public interest online.

Amrita Sengupta

Former MSc Student

Amrita Sengupta is an OII MSc student.

Dirgayuza Setiawan

Former MSc Student

Yuza is a prolific author of 11 books on technology, and a book on political philosophy. He is at the OII to make the Internet safer and better for children in Indonesia, and around the world.

Maxine Setiawan

Former MSc Student

Maxine graduated from University College London and worked in startups and ecommerce companies in Southeast Asia. Her interests include social networks analysis and content analysis.

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt FREng CEng CPsychol

Former Advisory Board Member

Professor Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Southampton University and Past President of the British Computer Society

Sivanne Shalev

Former MSc Student

Sivanne holds a BA in Political Science and Multidisciplinary studies in the Humanities from Tel Aviv University.

Joe Shaw

Former Research Assistant

Joe Shaw was an OII DPhil student. His research is concerned with the geography of information, property market technologies (PropTech) and critical urbanism.

Stephanie Sheir

Former MSc Student

Stephanie holds a BSc in Politics from the London School of Economics. Her research interests include internet governance, online content regulation and artificial intelligence risk.

Weiwei Shen

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Collectivism, Individualism and Privacy Online: A Cross-national Study of Internet Users' Attitudes and Behaviours Supervisor: Professor William Dutton Completed: 2011

Maya Sherman

Former MSc Student

Maya is interested in the cultural and ethical aspects of AI technologies in the Public Sector. As a Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholar, she strives to explore predictive models fostering AI for Good and data-driven policymaking.

Dr Huipeng Shi

Former HCN Visiting Fellow

Dr Huipeng Shi works as the Associate Chief Physician in Department of Orthopaedics at the Shanghai 6th Hospital, Jiao Tong University. He attained an MBA from Hong Kong University and has eight patents for trauma-related products in the P.R.China.

Frida Shui

Former MSc Student

Frida is interested in exploring technology inclusion and human capital in industrial economies in the Information Age. She holds a BA in International Development from KCL, with a research focus on industrial policy in emerging markets.

Kate Sim

Former MSc Student

Kate Sim was a DPhil Student at the OII researching the datafication and automation of sexual harassment reporting systems in US higher education. She now works at Google.

Andrea Simenstad

Former MSc Student

Andrea joined the OII as a full-time MSc student after working with the Zooniverse at the University of Minnesota. She graduated from Carleton College with a BA in Cognitive Science.

Thain Simon

Former MSc Student

Thesis: MOOCs For a fee: using signature track to examine student engagement, persistence, and performance on Coursera Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2013

David Peter Simon

Former Research Assistant

David Peter Simon is an ethnographer assisting the Microwork and Virtual Production Networks project funded by the IDRC and led by investigators Prof Mark Graham and Dr Vili Lehdonvirta.

Erin Simpson

Former MSc Student

Erin Simpson was a Marshall Scholar at the OII, where she researched threats and opportunities for civic life online. Erin led civil society engagement for the Computational Propaganda team.

Dr Cohen R. Simpson

Former Research Fellow

Cohen is a sociologist specialising in the quantitative study of human social networks. He left the OII in 2020 to join the London School of Economics as a Fellow in Quantitative Research Methods.

Alexandra Skidmore

Former MSc Student

Alex is interested in disinformation, regulation, and digital journalism. She holds a BA in history from Brown University.

Charlotte Smart

Former MSc Student

Thesis: How are discourses employed in talking about the role of new technological modalities in connectivity? Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2015

Dr Philippa Smith

Former Visiting Fellow

Philippa Smith, a lecturer at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, researches the interface between language, technology and communication in areas such as journalism, identity, digital inclusion, internet rights and free speech.

Professor Ignace Snellen

Former Visiting Fellow

Ignace Snellen is an Emeritus Professor of Public Administration at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. he has specialised in the impact of ICTs on the internal and external relations of public administrations.

Dr Dongyoung Sohn

Former Visiting Fellow

Dongyoung Sohn is a professor of communication at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. His research centers on the issue of network embeddedness – how individuals make sense of and interact with their local social networks.

Professor Mingqiu Song

Former Visiting Fellow

Dr Mingqiu Song is an Associate Professor of the School of Management, Dalian University of Technology, China. Her previous research focused on the network information security.

XW Song

Former MSc Student

XW was an MSc in Social Data Science student at the OII. He holds a BA in Sociology from Singapore’s NTU, with minors in Computing and Entrepreneurship. His current research interests relate to the digital economy and culture industry.

Dr David Souter

Former Research Associate

David works as an expert adviser to United Nations and other organisations on the relationship between information technology, the Internet and public policy, particularly development, environment, governance and rights.

Professor Sarah Spiekermann

Former Visiting Fellow

Sarah chairs the Institute for Management Information Systems, Vienna University of Economics and Business. She has published over 70 articles on social and ethical implications of computer systems and has given over 80 presentations.

Anuj Srivas

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Rural Information Seeking Patterns: A Study of Farming and Fishing Communities in South India Supervisor: Dr Eric Meyer Completed: 2015

Jake Stein

Former MSc Student

Jake researches data inequality, differential privacy, and quantitative methods for data ethics. Jake received his B.A. from Yale focusing on digital media critical theory, and worked as a Product Researcher in San Francisco.

Tom Steinberg

Former Visiting Policy Fellow

Tom is now a strategy consultant, the senior contributing editor to Civicist (a publication on civic technology), an Ashoka fellow, and a visiting fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Robert Stevens

Former MSc Student

I’m interested in the future of media platforms, the economy of the internet, and cyber security/espionage. I spent a summer writing about tech and cyber security for the Associated Press.

Shelly Steward

Former Postdoctoral Researcher

Shelly is an economic sociologist and applied scholar who studies the changing nature of work. Her work in research and policy strives to identify the challenges faced by workers and develop solutions that build a more equitable economy.

Hannah Stewart

Former MSc Student

Hannah is interested in textual data in its various forms and formats. Her current research focuses on browsing behaviour in large-corpus analysis tools.

James Stomber

Former MSc Student

James is a mixed-methods researcher deeply interested in the intersection of behavioral science, design, technology, and public policy. He focuses on AI ethics and design at the OII and holds a BA in Brain and Behavior from Brown University.

Vetle Store

Former MSc Student

Vetle focused on how technology transforms political power structures. He has worked in marketing and in the Norwegian Foreign Service, and holds a BA in European Social and Political Science from UCL.

Leon Straihamer Klingborg

Former MSc Student

After graduating with a BSc in political science from Lund University, Leon is now a MSc student at OII. His research interest mainly revolves around online dissemination of controversial ideas, in particular conspiracy theories.

Vincent Straub

Former MSc Student

Vincent is interested in understanding change in complex social systems, such as cities. He has an interdisciplinary background, holding a BA in International Development from King's College London.

Sam Street

Former Casual Research Assistant

Sam is a research assistant at Fairwork. He conducts fieldwork for the Fairwork UK team.

Amanda Summers-Plotno

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Using Interviews to study social media adoption: The Case of US Congress and the Non-Use of Twitter Supervisor: Dr Monica Bulger Completed: 2012

Dr Theodora Sutton

Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Theodora is a digital anthropologist and ESRC DTP Postdoctoral Fellow. For her DPhil she conducted ethnography at a "digital detox" retreat in California. Her research explores technology and mental health as situated in cultural context.

Evan Szablowski

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Connected Conflict: Crowdsourced Intelligence in Networked Warfare Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2014

Dr Jo Tacchi

Former Visiting Fellow

Jo Tacchi is a Senior Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She has conducted research on radio and the Internet in the UK, Australia, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

Dr Damian Tambini

Former Research Associate

Damian Tambini is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), and at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. His research interests include media and telecommunications policy and democratic communication.

Zach Tan

Former MSc Student

Zach Tan was an OII MSc student interested in the intersection of the internet, labour, and law. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University, and has a background in social studies, data analysis, and critical theory.

Tamon Tananilgul

Former MSc Student

Tamon is interested in algorithmic bias, ethics for technology and accountability. She holds a BA in Economics and has worked extensively as a Product Owner for a major Telecom provider in Thailand.

Yingxian Tang

Former MSc Student

Yingxian Tang holds an MA in International Communication from Fudan University. She is interested in digital literacy and investigating the participation and power of today’s digital natives through AI and political economy lens.

Anna Tankel

Former MSc Student

Anna Tankel is interested in Data Ethics, Digital Humanities, and the impact of the Internet on language. In her spare time, she enjoys editing Wikipedia, and the odd digital detox.

Professor John Taylor

Former Visiting Fellow

John Taylor is Professor of Government and Information Management at Caledonian Business School, Glasgow. Recent work focuses on emergent new public policy initiatives in the UK and Europe aimed at the formation of new governance structures.

Emily Taylor

Former Research Associate

Emily Taylor is the CEO of Oxford Information Labs Ltd. and a specialist in cybersecurity, internet law and governance, and surveillance laws. In collaboration with Philip Howard, she is involved in ongoing research around AI and Good Governance.

Jessica Taylor

Former MSc Student

Jessica graduated from Oxford University in 2020 and holds a BA in English Language and Literature.

Elgar Teo

Former MSc Student

Elgar is interested in understanding society by capitalising on the digitisation of human behaviours. He has studied online public opinion and the use of technology in social movements. He is a journalism graduate from the University of Hong Kong.

John Ternovski

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Measuring Social Influence in an Activist Network through a large-scale field experiment Supervisor: Dr Andy Przybylski Completed: 2014

Ole Teutloff

Former MSc Student

Ole is interested in public policy in times of digitalization. In particular, he wanted to look at how new data science methods could be used to improve policy-making. Before coming to Oxford Ole completed a degree in Political Science.

Dhanaraj Thakur

Former Visiting Doctoral Student

Dhanaraj is a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA). His general area of research is Information and Communications Technology policy with a specific interest in developing countries.

Professor Mike Thelwall

Former Research Associate

Mike Thelwall is Professor of Information Science and leader of the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton. His interests include webometrics, cybermetrics, blogs, Web 2.0, and scientometrics.

Lauren Thomas

Former MSc Student

Lauren holds a BA from Northwestern University. Before coming to Oxford, she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and studied economics as a Fulbright Scholar at Université Lumière Lyon in France.

Dr Marcelo Thompson

Former DPhil Student

Marcelo Thompson was a DPhil candidate at the OII, working in the interplay between technology law and political theory. His thesis situated the legal problem of technological neutrality within the neutrality-perfectionism debate in politics.

Douglas Thornton

Former Head of Administration & Finance

Working closely with the Director and the Senior Executive Team, Douglas leads the Institute’s administration in implementing strategy, supporting teaching, research and policy engagement, and ensuring good governance and high-quality services.

James Thorogood

Former MSc Student

James is an engineer with a passion for food systems. After training as a mechanical engineer in Canada, James worked in supply chain management for the milk sector in East Africa.

Alice Thwaite

Former MSc Student

Alice studied History and Philosophy of Science and has worked in tech and media. Recently she founded the Echo Chamber Club – a project to help her peers access contrary opinions & different voices.

Katherine Tolentino

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Management of Identity and Privacy in Sex Worker Blogs Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2012

Daniel Toth

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Verbal-Nonverbal Comment Dynamics on YouTube Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown Completed: 2013

Hannibal Travis

Former Visiting Fellow

Hannibal Travis is an Associate Professor of Law at Florida International University. His research interests include net neutrality regulation, copyright and patent reform, and the legal implications of digital media.

Professor Anne Trefethen

Former Research Associate

Anne Trefethen is a Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford. Her work in industry and academia focuses on numerical algorithms and software, computational science and high-performance computing.

Maddy Tung

Former MSc Student

Maddy Tung has a background in Defense, National Security, Computer Science, Mathematics, Humanities, and Mandarin. As a Rhodes and Truman Scholar, she hopes to preserve democratic systems against threats from AI, ML, and cyber and information war.

Professor Joseph Turow

Former Astor Visiting Lecturer

Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School For Communication.

Adam Turowski

Former MSc Student

Adam is a part time MSc student at the OII.

Assistant Professor Akin Unver

Former Robert Bosch Foundation Visiting Fellow

Akin Unver is an assistant professor of international relations at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. At the OII, he worked on how democratic and non-democratic regimes engage in cyber surveillance and which tools their citizens employ to bypass them.

Karin Vajta Engström

Former MSc Student

Karin holds an MA with honours in Politics from the University of Edinburgh and is on leave from her role as Senior Associate at the sustainability department at the global communications agency Prime Weber Shandwick.

Giselle Valdez

Former MSc Student

Giselle holds a BA in Literature from Columbia University and is interested in the intersection of digital media studies and privacy law. She has worked on Google’s legal team and at voting rights organizations in New York City and Washington DC.

Dr Harry Valetk

Former Visiting Associate

Harry A. Valetk is a new media attorney devoted to data privacy, consumer protection, and the complex interaction between the law, technology, and society at large.

Tom C. Varghese

Former Visiting Policy Fellow

Tom C. Varghese is Head of Connectivity and Access Policy, Asia Pacific, at Facebook.

Thierry Vedel

Former Visiting Fellow

Thierry Vedel is a researcher with the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF), Paris. His research interests cover media policies and regulation, political communication, Internet and politics.

Dr Balazs Vedres

Former Senior Research Fellow

Dr Vedres is a sociologist and network scientist, investigating the network sources of creative success, and diversity and discrimination on online collaborative platforms.

Dr Bertrand Venard

Former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

Prof. Bertrand Venard is Rector of the French University of Armenia and Associate Researcher at the OII. He has developed several research projects about cybersecurity and corruption as Professor at Audencia Business School

Roberto Verzola

Former CSPP Visitor

Roberto Verzola undertook research at the OII on how technologies and other modern developments have been used in various countries to enhance (or subvert) electoral processes, and applied the lessons learned to the case of the Philippines.

Gili Vidan

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Strength in Numbers, Trust in Protocols: The Bitcoin Ethos and the Delegation of Governance to New Technocrats Supervisor: Professor Luciano Floridi Completed: 2014

Dr Daniel Villar-Onrubia

Former Research Assistant

Daniel Villar Onrubia was an OII DPhil student researching open educational initiatives and practices in the Higher Education sector.

Dr Nir Vulkan

Former Research Associate

Nir Vulkan is a Reader in Business Economics at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. His interests include economics of electronic commerce, economic design, automated trading, automated negotiations, and game theoretical analysis.

Johannes Wachs

Former Visiting Scholar

Johannes Wachs is a PhD candidate at Central European University. He researches corruption in public procurement markets using networks and computational methods.

Gal Wachtel

Former MSc Student

Gal graduated from the Msc in Social Data Science programme in 2021.

Lauren Wagner

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Unpacking Perceived Social Support Online Supervisor: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen Completed: 2011

Tony Wales

Former Visiting Associate

Tony Wales was appointed as General Counsel of AOL International in June 2007, responsible for the company's worldwide legal affairs outside the US. During this time he has been instrumental in the launch of new businesses in 31 territories.

Niamh Walsh

Former External Relations Manager

Niamh manages the OII’s external relations with policy makers, industry leaders and business. She is also the point of contact for alumni relations.

Dr Ning Wang

Former Researcher

Ning Wang holds a joint position between the OII and Oxford's Mathematical Institute. His work involves in the collection and analysis of a big dataset tracking patterns of communication in online social networks.

Dr Junchao Wang

Former Visiting Fellow

Dr Junchao Wang is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Criticism with Tsinghua University, China. He is a media critic with ten years' experience in media criticism teaching and practice.

Anqi Wang

Former MSc Student

Anqi is a Social Science of the Internet MSc student with research interests in Internet regulation, digital divide and the historical analysis of media studies. She holds a BA in Book and Media Studies from the University of Toronto.

Professor David Waterman

Former Visiting Fellow

David Waterman is Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. His research and teaching interests center on the economics of media, and more generally on the economics of information.

Sara Marie Watson

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Living with Data: Personal Data Interests of the Quantified Self Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2013

David Watson

Former DPhil Student

David Watson was a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, where his research focused on the epistemological foundations of machine learning.

Andrew Watson

Former MSc Student

Andy is a graduate of Mathematics from Oxford University. He is interested in data ethics and social mobility.

Adam Webb

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Political Economy of Online Search Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2013

Professor Frank Webster

Former Visiting Fellow

Frank Webster is Professor of Sociology at City University, University of London. He has written extensively on information developments and information society issues, and undertaken research at the OII in the area of democratisation and new media.

Joseph Weir

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Flattening the world': dialogue and rhetoric in the use of Twitter by Paul Kagame and the Rwandan government Supervisor: Dr Laura Elizabeth Mann Completed: 2012

Anika Weiss

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Factors influencing the parental restrictions on children's Intranet Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2011

Amber Westerholm-Smyth

Former MSc Student

Amber Westerholm-Smyth graduated in 2012 from Hertford College, University of Oxford where she studied Geography. Her research interests include privacy and information sharing, information control, and nudge theory.

Dr Deborah Wheeler

Former Visiting Fellow

Dr Wheeler teaches at the Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Washington, Seattle. She focuses on the development and impact of the Internet in the Islamic World.

Gill Whitehead

Former MSc Student

Gill has worked for Google as Senior Director of Client Solutions & Analytics, leading teams in data analysis, measurement, user experience, consumer segmentation and insights. Gill is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Camelot and Informa plc

William Wildi

Former MSc Student

Billy is interested in the epistemology of statistics and machine learning, and institutional decision making. He has a BSc in Philosophy from the LSE and has been trying to make up for it ever since.

Richard Wilkinson

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The Digital Car: Consumer Privacy and Market Structure in the Age of Big Data Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown Completed: 2013

Professor Yorick Wilks

Former Visiting Fellow

Yorick Wilks has interests in artificial intelligence and the computer processing of language, knowledge and belief. His current research focuses on the possibility of software agents having identifiable personalities.

James Williams

Former DPhil Student

James Williams is an OII DPhil alumnus. He studied the ethics of attention and persuasion in technology design.

Citt Williams

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Tracing the socio-technical histories of Northern Indigenous Australian relationships to environmental knowledge. Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2014

Tom Williams

Former MSc Student

Tom was a part-time MSc student at the OII. He holds a BA in Philosophy and an MA in Creative Writing, and works as a digital strategy consultant. Tom's research interests include the ethical use of algorithmic personalisation and recommendation.

Dr Matt Willis

Former Researcher

Dr Willis is investigating the potential needs and uses of automation technologies in NHS Primary Care, and how automation will shape the future design of work in healthcare. He continues to work closely with OII Senior Fellow Professor Eric Meyer.

Svea Windwehr

Former MSc Student

Svea is interested in the negotiation of regulatory power by governments and platform corporations. She holds a BA from University College Maastricht and worked as a policy officer at the European Commission prior to joining OII.

Kelly Wing

Former MSc Student

Kelly holds a BA in Linguistics from Cambridge University. In her free time, she thinks about language, food and existential risk.

Michael Wong

Former MSc Student

Michael holds an Honours BSc in Astrophysics/Physics and Public Policy from the University of Toronto. He is interested in leveraging human social, virtual and physical spaces for the cause of sustainability.

Annique Wong

Former MSc Student

Annique was an MSc student in the Social Science of the Internet. She holds a BA in Anthropology and Statistics and Data Science from Yale University.

David Wong

Former MSc Student

David was a Shirley Scholar at the OII. Previously, he was a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and launched a startup called JOFI to help low-income individuals find work.

Lena Wong

Former MSc Student

Thesis: The 4 C's: How YouTube is Changing the Production of Culture through Cost, Choice, Collaboration and Content Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2011

Joshua Woodbridge

Former MSc Student

Josh holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Surrey, and has experience analysing Big Data from an international insurance firm.

Claire Woodcock

Former MSc Student

Claire was a part time MSc student at the OII.

Sam Woolley

Former Research Assistant

Samuel Woolley was the Director of Research of the Computational Propaganda project, and left the OII to become Assistant Professor at the University of Texas.

Paul F. Wouters

Former NCeSS Visiting Research Fellow

Paul Wouters is scientific director of the Erasmus Studio, and holds a professorship at the EUR Faculty of Social Sciences. He is interested in the design and analysis of new scholarly practices in the humanities and social sciences.

Lucas Wright

Former MSc Student

Lucas researches content moderation, automation, and platform governance and has worked for the OII's "Offensive Internet" project, the Dangerous Speech Project, and the Brookings Institution.

Ivory Wu

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Self-Branding on Two-sided e-market: An Analysis of Economic & Social Elements in Airbnb Property Profiles Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2015

Maggie Xu

Former MSc Student

Maggie holds a BA from Vanderbilt University; she double-majored in Mathematics and Economics, and minored in Computer Science. She has previously worked as a Data & Analytics Architect.

Elaine Xu

Former MSc Student

Elaine holds a BA in Journalism from Zhejiang University. Her interests include social networks, interaction between online and offline behaviours, and industrial Internet of things.

Brianna Yang

Former MSc Student

Brianna is studying for an MSc in Social Science of the Internet. She recently graduated from Columbia with a BA in Political Science and History.

Fan Yang

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Social Media Empowerment: A case study of Foxconn Workers Using 'Weibo' Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2013

Dr Taha Yasseri

Former Senior Research Fellow

Taha Yasseri analyses large-scale transactional data to understand human dynamics, collective behaviour, collective intelligence and machine intelligence.

Tianyu Ye

Former MSc Student

Tianyu holds an MS in Statistics from University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include data and law, data privacy and AI policy.

Benedict Yeo

Former MSc Student

Benedict Yeo holds a BA in Geography with Quantitative Methods from UCL. He worked in public service in Singapore and is keen to use data-driven methods to derive insights into social and political behaviour to improve public policies.

Levent Yer

Former MSc Student

Levent holds a BA in Social Science from HU Berlin as well as a a Masters as a Schwarzman Scholar. Amongst others, he worked at EY-Parthenon, Deutsche Bank, Amazon, and GFC. He focuses on platforms, internet economics, and ecosystems.

Mingjie Yu

Former MSc Student

Mingjie Yu obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London.

Shiv Yucel

Former MSc Student

Shiv studied economics, politics and psychology at the University of Toronto. He is very interested in using novel techniques and approaches to study individual decision-making within the context of larger economic and health trends.

Ece Yurual

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Evaluating a Model of Multidimensional Trust Formation for Online Exchanges in Business-to-Consumer Commerce: The Case of Turkey Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2011

Aiste Zalepuga

Former MSc Student

Aiste is a MSc student interested in digital government, law and technology. She received her BA from Yale University.

Zarino Zappia

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Participation, Power and Provenance: Mapping Information Flows in Open Data Development Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2011

Jing Zeng

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Can micro-blog based discussion contribute to political deliberation in China? Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2013

Willem Zents

Former MSc Student

Willem holds a BSc in Governance, Economics, and Development from Leiden University College. Prior to joining the OII, he worked at an online supermarket scale-up in Amsterdam.

Simon Junyi Zhang

Former MSc Student

Enthusiastic about the structural problems and interactions among technology, the minority and civil society, Simon has an interdisciplinary background that combines humanities and technology. He graduated from Nankai University.

Joyce Zhang

Former MSc Student

Joyce is interested in the intersection of technology, governance and development in the Global South. Joyce worked in Cape Town at a blockchain for social impact startup and holds a BS in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University.

Terry Zhang

Former MSc Student

Terry has a background in sustainability and computer science from the University of Waterloo with experiences in green building analysis. He seeks to better understand and facilitate sustainable behaviours using insights from the digital realm.

Junyao Zhang

Former MSc Student

Junyao holds two bachelor degrees from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Waseda University in Japan. Her undergraduate study is funded by Bai Xian Asian Institute. She joined the OII as a Clarendon scholar.

Yuan Zhang

Former MSc Student

Yuan was an MSc student in Social Data Science. She is interested in the application of natural language processing methods in detecting cyber populist discourses in different countries.

Yuxuan Zhang

Former MSc Student

Yuxuan graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a double degree in Applied Math and Economics and studied for an MSc in Social Data Science.

Qichen Zhang

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Reblog: Conceptualizing hypermedia and emerging culture of digital curation Supervisor: Dr Victoria Nash Completed: 2013

Jennie Zhang

Former MSc Student

Thesis: Matchmaking in the Digital Age: A Quantitative Analysis of Communication Patterns Between Mobile Dating Users. Supervisor: Dr Taha Yasseri aCompleted: 2015

Jia Li Zhao

Former MSc Student

Jia Li Zhao was an OII MSc student.

Fangwei Zhao

Former MSc Student

Fangwei holds a BA in Communication and Media from the University of Michigan, with minors in Statistics and Music. Before joining the OII, she worked at the Department of Global Communications of the United Nations.

Yan Zhou

Former MSc Student

Thesis: A cross-cultural comparison of online self-presentation Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2015

Julia Zhu

Former MSc Student

Julia holds a BA degree from Yale University, where she double-majored in Ethics, Politics and Economics, and Statistics and Data Science.

Jianlong Zhu

Former MSc Student

Jianlong Zhu is an MSc Social Data Science student interested in the governance of personal data and fairness in data-driven policymaking. He holds a BA in Liberal Arts.

Yihan Zhu

Former MSc Student

Yihan is curious about on Smart Cities, IoT, and Echo Chamber. Before joining OII, Yihan graduated from LSE and had worked in the consulting sector. Yihan is supported by the China Oxford Scholarship Fund.

Nathaniel Zinda

Former MSc Student

Nathaniel holds a BA in Economics from the City University of New York, with a minor in Information Technology and Social Responsibility. He is interested in the role of data as an economic resource and the ethical implications of its collection.

Anne Zola

Former MSc Student

Anne holds a BA in Psychology from Northwestern University. She is interested in the effects of social media on well-being and the improvement of psychology through open science.

Professor Matthew Zook

Former Visiting Fellow

Professor Matthew Zook is a Professor in Geography at the University of Kentucky (USA) and have just completed a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tartu (Estonia).