People
Our community includes a vibrant and diverse network of faculty, staff, fellows, students, and practitioners representing a wide range of backgrounds, philosophies, and disciplines. For press and media inquiries reach out to us at press@cyber.harvard.edu. For all other inquiries write to hello@cyber.harvard.edu.
Kim Albrecht
Kim Albrecht visualizes cultural, technological, and scientific forms of knowledge. His diagrams unfold and question the structures of representation…
Doaa Abu-Elyounes
Doctor Doaa Abu-Elyounes is a Program Specialist for Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at UNESCO, and she is leading the implementation of the UNESCO…
Ifeoma Ajunwa
Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa, J.D., Ph.D., is an award-winning tenured law professor and author of the highly acclaimed book, The Quantified Worker,…
Kendra Albert
Kendra is a public interest technology lawyer with a special interest in computer security law and freedom of expression. They serve as a clinical…
Virgilio Almeida
Virgilio Almeida is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He is also Faculty Associate at the…
Ana Andrijevic
Ana Andrijevic is a PhD Candidate at the University of Geneva as well as a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School.
Gabe Armstrong-Scott
Gabe Armstrong-Scott is a Senior Advisor with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet of New Zealand.
Dave Arney
David Arney works to improve patient safety by advancing medical device interoperability. As the Lead Engineer of the Medical Device Plug and Play…
Chinmayi Arun
Chinmayi Arun is the Executive Director of the Information Society Project and a Lecturer in Law (Spring '24) at Yale Law School. Her research…
Amar Ashar
Amar Ashar is a senior researcher and Head of Algorithmic Policy at Spotify. His work focuses on algorithmic impact & responsibility, where he…
Pablo Baquero
Pablo Marcello Baquero is Assistant Professor at HEC Paris and a Chairholder at the Hi! Paris Center on Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence…
Solon Barocas
Solon Barocas is a Principal Researcher in the New York City lab of Microsoft Research, where he is a member of the Fairness, Accountability,…
John Basl
John is associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University and an associate director at the Northeastern Ethics Institute where he leads AI…
Christopher Bavitz
Christopher T. Bavitz is the WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Experiential and Clinical Education at Harvard Law School. He is…
Yochai Benkler
Yochai Benkler is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Harvard Law and a Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman…
Mike Bennett
Michael G Bennett is the Director of Educational Programs and Director of the Policy and Regulation group at the Institute for Experiential…
Francine Berman
Francine Berman is the Director of Public Interest Technology and Stuart Rice Research Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer…
Fernando Bermejo
Fernando is a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center, the research director of Media Cloud, and the executive director of Media Ecosystems…
Maja Bogataj Jančič
Maja Bogataj Jančič is the founder and executive director of the Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI.
Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Doreen Bogdan-Martin is a strategic leader in the ICT sector with 30 years’ high-level experience in international and inter-governmental relations,…
Beatriz Botero Arcila
Beatriz Botero Arcila is an Assistant Professor of law in the digital information economy at Sciences Po Law School and Faculty Associate at the…
Lionel Brossi
Lionel Brossi is Associate Professor and Director of International Relations at the Faculty of Communication and Image of the University of Chile …
Afua Bruce
AFUA BRUCE is a leading public interest technologist who has spent her career working at the intersection of technology, policy, and society. She has…
Ryan Budish
Ryan Budish is a Privacy and Public Policy Manager at Meta. He helps to develop innovative approaches to a range of data protection practices, with a…
Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo is a researcher at the School of Communication Sciences at the International University of Catalonia, Spain. She co-leads the Artificial…
Bao Kham Chau
Bao Kham Chau is an Intellectual Property attorney, a Cofounder/Director at Cornell Law Xenophobia Meter Project, and a Visiting Fellow at…
Huili Chen
Huili Chen's research focuses on a sociocultural examination of human-AI interaction, harmonizing perspectives from design, psychology, computing,…
Kasia Chmielinski
Kasia Chmielinski (they/them) is the Co-Founder of the Data Nutrition Project, an initiative that builds tools to mitigate bias in artificial…
Rumman Chowdhury
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She is a pioneer in the field of applied algorithmic…
Wendy Chun
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication and Director of the Digital…
A. Feder Cooper
A. Feder Cooper is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Cornell University, studying how to make more reliable and trustworthy conclusions when…
Sandra Cortesi
Sandra Cortesi is a Fellow at the Berkman Center and the Director of Youth and Media. She is responsible for coordinating the Youth and Media’s…
Sasha Costanza-Chock
Sasha Costanza-Chock (she/they/ella/elle) is a researcher and designer who works to support community-led processes that build shared power,…
Nick Couldry
Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and…
Nighat Dad
Nighat Dad is an accomplished digital policy geek & dynamic advocate in the realm of digital rights, serving as the visionary founder and Executive…
Primavera De Filippi
Primavera De Filippi is a Director of Research at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein…
Juan Carlos De Martin
Juan Carlos De Martin is a Berkman Klein faculty associate and the faculty co-founder (in 2006) and co-director of the Nexa Center for Internet &…
Karthik Dinakar
Karthik Dinakar is a computer scientist specializing in machine learning, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction.
Tomás Dodds
Tomás Dodds is an Assistant Professor in Journalism and New Media at Leiden University and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for…
Judith Donath
Judith Donath is a writer, designer and artist whose work focuses on the co-evolution of technology and society. She has published numerous articles…
Jackie Dorward
Jackie Dorward is a member of the Data, Strategy and Security group at Debevoise and Plimpton in New York City.
Finale Doshi-Velez
Finale Doshi-Velez is a Gordon McKay Professor in Computer Science at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She completed…
Elizabeth Dubois
Dr. Elizabeth Dubois (PhD, University of Oxford) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and University Research Chair in…
Ben Eidelson
Benjamin Eidelson is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Niva Elkin-Koren
Niva Elkin-Koren is a Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. She is the academic director of the Chief Justice Meir Shamgar Center…
Samson Esayas
Dr. Samson Esayas, an Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for…
Jad Esber
Jad is the co-founder of Koodos, a New York-based web3 company.
Kathleen Esfahany
Kathleen N. Esfahany is a Ph.D. student at the Harvard Program in Neuroscience and a researcher at the metaLAB (at) Harvard.
Nadah Feteih
Nadah Feteih is an Employee Fellow at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media. She holds B.S and M.S degrees from UC San Diego in Computer Science…
Jessica Fjeld
Jessica Fjeld is Senior Advisor at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, and the Managing…
Camille Francois
Camille Francois specializes in understanding and mitigating harms emerging from digital technologies.
Johnathan Frankle
Jonathan Frankle is Chief Scientist at MosaicML and Chief Scientist (Neural Networks) at Databricks.
Diana Freed
Diana Freed is a PhD Candidate at Cornell University in the Department of Information Science and a 2024 incoming Assistant Professor at Brown…
Juan Ortiz Freuler
I explore tech geopolitics, antitrust, and the influence of funding on research and advocacy. My research focuses on examining how various actors…
Dilrukshi Gamage
Dilrukshi Gamage is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Sasahara Lab, Department of Innovation Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Her research…
Cecilia Garraffo
Cecilia is the founding director of AstroAI.
Urs Gasser
Urs Gasser is Professor of Public Policy, Governance, and Innovative Technology at the Technical University of Munich, where he serves as Dean of the…
Aaron Gluck-Thaler
Aaron Gluck-Thaler is a PhD Candidate at the Department of the History of Science, an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society,…
Mary Gray
Mary L. Gray is Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and…
Ben Green
Ben Green is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. He has a courtesy appointment at the Gerald R. Ford School…
Armando Guio Español
Armando Guio Español is a lawyer, and graduated from Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, Colombia) in 2014 with an Honours Degree. He holds a Masters…
Shira Gur-Arieh
Shira Gur-Arieh is a doctoral student at Harvard Law School.
Woodrow Hartzog
Woodrow Hartzog is a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. His research focuses on law and policy issues related to privacy, digital…
Alexa Hasse
Alexa is a Ph.D. student at Tufts' Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development.
Dan Ho
Daniel E. Ho is the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Professor of Political Science, and Senior…
Seiji Isotani
Seiji Isotani is a visiting professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a professor of computer science and learning…
Malavika Jayaram
Malavika is the Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub, an independent, non-profit internet and society research think tank based out of Hong…
Dariusz Jemielniak
Dariusz Jemielniak is a Wikipedian, Full Professor of Management at Kozminski University, and an entrepreneur (having established the largest online…
Bulelani Jili
Bulelani Jili is a Meta Research Ph.D. fellow at Harvard University. His research interests include ICT Development, Africa-China relations,…
Samantha-Kaye Johnston
Samantha-Kaye Johnston is a Researcher and Supernumerary Fellow at Jesus College, both at The University of Oxford, and a member of the UNESCO…
Rachel Kalmar
Rachel Kalmar is a data scientist, community organizer, and world record holder for number of wearable sensors worn continuously. She is currently…
Margot Kaminski
Margot Kaminski is a Professor at the University of Colorado Law School and the Director of the Privacy Initiative at Silicon Flatirons.
Anandana Kapur
Dr Anandana Kapur is an alumna of the Harvard Kennedy School and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
Danil Kerimi
Danil Kerimi is an experienced technology and public relations executive with a track record of delivering impactful projects in corporate strategy,…
Mehtab Khan
Mehtab Khan's scholarship focuses on the intersections between IP, data governance, and AI ethics.
Jenny Korn
Jenny Korn is a feminist activist of color for social justice and scholar of race and gender in mass media and online communication.
Mason Kortz
Mason Kortz is a clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, where he supervises students working at the intersection of law,…
Vivek Krishnamurthy
Vivek Krishnamurthy is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School and Director of the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy…
Crystal Lee
Crystal Lee is an Assistant Professor in Computational Media and Design at MIT with a joint appointment in the Schwarzman College of Computing and…
Ashley Lee
Ashley Lee is a scholar of tech, politics, and social movements. Her research examines the implications of technology design and use for democracy…
Larry Lessig
Larry Lessig works on law and technology.
Maroussia Lévesque
Maroussia Lévesque is a researcher and attorney working on the governance of artificial intelligence.
Harry Lewis
Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay Research Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, is the…
Andres Lombana-Bermudez
Andres Lombana-Bermudez is a researcher, designer, and digital strategist working at the intersection of digital technology, youth, citizenship, and…
Jenn Louie
Jenn Louie is the founder of the Moral Innovation Lab based on her research initiated at Harvard Divinity School.
Eduardo Magrani
Doctor of Laws (Ph.D / Juris Doctor) on Data Governance and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Post Doctor at the Munich Center for Technology &…
Micaela Mantegna
Known as the 'Abogamer', Micaela stands as an international authority on digital ethics, XR policy, and the intertwining of generative AI with…
William Marks
William Marks is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a JD candidate at Harvard Law School.
Florian Martin-Bariteau
Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau is a Faculty Associate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the University…
Sahar Massachi
Sahar researches the political economy of tech giants, disruptions to information ecosystems, and design principles for better social media.
María Isabel Mejía
María Isabel Mejía is a pioneer with over four decades of leadership and innovation.
James Mickens
James Mickens is an associate professor of computer science at Harvard University. His research focuses on the performance, security, and robustness…
Martha Minow
Martha Minow has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where her courses include civil procedure, constitutional law, family law, international…
Petra Molnar
Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing on the impacts of migration technologies on people crossing borders.
Phillip Müller
Philipp is interested in understanding and shaping sovereign and sustainable digital transformation of government and society.
Victor Munoz
Víctor Muñoz is an expert in Telecommunications, who brings nearly 25 years of experience in the BPO and IT sectors to his work. He is founder and…
Brian Michael Murphy
Brian Michael Murphy is a media archaeologist and writer who work cuts across disciplines and genres.
Daniel Mwesigwa
Daniel has worked in several roles including as an ICT policy analyst and researcher at CIPESA, in Kampala, Uganda, as a research communicator in the…
Tomo Nagashima
Tomo Nagashima is a learning scientist and Human-Computer Interaction researcher who works closely with education stakeholders to support human…
Adam Nagy
Adam Nagy is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a JD candidate at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Arvind Narayanan
Arvind Narayanan is a professor of computer science at Princeton and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy.
Sarah Newman
Sarah Newman is the Director of Art & Education at metaLAB at Harvard.
Russell Newman
Dr. Russell Newman is an Associate Professor in Digital Media and Culture at Emerson College’s Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and…
Aileen Nielsen
Aileen Nielsen is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School, where she teaches privacy law and torts.
David O'Brien
David O’Brien is an 2023-2024 Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, whose scholarship focuses on the…
Ngozi Okidegbe
Ngozi Okidegbe is a Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Associate Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Computing & Data…
David Opderbeck
David W. Opderbeck is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology and Institute for Privacy Protection at…
Aviv Ovadya
Aviv Ovadya (aviv.me) works at the intersection of AI, platforms, democracy, and deliberation. He is a Research Fellow at newDemocracy; an affiliate…
Yong Jin Park
Yong Jin Park is Professor, School of Communications, at Howard University.
Desmond Patton
Desmond Upton Patton, a pioneer in the interdisciplinary fusion of social work, communications, and data science, is the Brian and Randi Schwartz…
Jonnie Penn
Dr. Jonnie Penn, FRSA, is an educator, broadcaster, and public speaker who theorizes the social implications of information technologies. Penn is an…
Jon Penney
Jon is a legal scholar and social scientist based at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Toronto. He is also a Faculty Associate at Harvard…
Najarian Peters
Najarian R. Peters joined the KU Law faculty in summer 2020. She teaches torts as well as two new privacy courses she created: Privacy Law and The…
Ivan Petrella
Ivan Petrella is Director of Culture, Humanities and Creative Industries at Fundación Bunge y Born and chairs the Committee for Ethics and AI of the…
Kathy Pham
Kathy Pham is a computer scientist, product leader, and founder who has held roles in product management, software engineering, data science, people…
Dasha Pruss
Dasha Pruss is an incoming Postdoctoral Fellow in the Embedded EthiCS program at Harvard University.
Aprajita Rana
Aprajita is an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center and is a legal and policy strategist working in intersection of law, technology, and global…
Elissa Redmiles
Dr. Elissa M. Redmiles is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. She was previously a Faculty Member at the Max Planck…
Nagla Rizk
Nagla Rizk is Professor of Economics and Founding Director of the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at the American University in…
Dario Rodighiero
Dario is an Assistant Professor of Sciences and Technology Studies at the University of Groningen, serving the multidisciplinary Campus Fryslân…
César Rodríguez-Garavito
César Rodríguez Garavito is an international human rights and environmental law scholar and practitioner. He is a Professor of Clinical Law and Chair…
Magda Romanska
Magda Romanska is a Professor of Theatre at Emerson College in Boston, MA, and Principal at metaLAB (at) Harvard. She is also the Chair of the…
Hilary Ross
Hilary Ross is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center. Currently, she is a technology policy program consultant.
Nathan Sanders
Nathan Sanders is a data scientist focused on creating open technology to help vulnerable communities and all stakeholders participate in the…
Holli Sargeant
Holli Sargeant is a Ph.D. Candidate in Law at the University of Cambridge.
Elaine Sedenberg
Elaine Sedenberg works for the Strategic Advisor to the President, Global Affairs at Meta, and covers issues across Policy, Communications, and…
Maitreya Shah
Maitreya Shah is a blind lawyer and researcher. His work lies in the interstices of the ethics and governance of emerging technologies and disability…
Stuart Shieber
Stuart Shieber is the James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at…
Bill Shribman
Bill Shribman is the Senior Executive Producer and Director of Digital Partnerships at GBH and has 30 years’ experience making digital media for kids…
Alicia Solow-Niederman
Alicia Solow-Niederman is an associate professor of law at The George Washington University Law School. Her research focuses on how to regulate…
Holger Spamann
Holger Spamann is a professor at Harvard Law School, where he teaches corporate law and corporate finance.
Brandon Sullivan
Brandon Sullivan is a Ph.D. in Political Science student at Boston University.
Elisabeth Sylvan
Dr. Elisabeth (“Lis") Sylvan is the Senior Director of Strategy and Programming at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard…
Zahra Takhshid
Zahra Takhshid joined the University of Denver Sturm College of Law as an Assistant Professor in July 2021. Before joining DU, she was the Lewis…
Amanda Third
Professor Amanda Third (PhD) is Professorial Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture & Society, and Co-Director of the Young and Resilient…
Zeynep Tufekci
Zeynep Tufekci is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill at the School of Information and Library Science with an…
Maria Lucia Villalba
María Lucía is an economist with experience in the public sector. She has led the implementation of different economic and social development…
Kerstin Vokinger
Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger is Professor of Law and Medicine at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for…
Sandra Wachter
Professor Sandra Wachter is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow in Law and Ethics of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as Internet…
Anne Washington
Anne L. Washington, PhD is a computer scientist and scholar of public interest technology. As Assistant Professor of Data Policy at NYU, she…
Moira Weigel
Moira Weigel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and serves on the Executive Committee of Women’s, Gender, and…
David Weinberger
In books, articles, posts, classes, and talks, David Weinberger, Ph.D. explores the effect of the technology — especially AI and the Internet — on…
Apryl A. Williams
Apryl Williams is a jointly appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Media and the Digital Studies Institute at the…
Christo Wilson
Christo Wilson is an Associate Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is a founding member of the…
Alexandra Wood
Alexandra Wood is a Berkman Center fellow contributing to the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project.
Crystal Yang
Crystal S. Yang is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Annie Zhang
Annie Zhang is a media tech entrepreneur, journalist, and university lecturer in journalism based in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Leila Zia
Leila Zia is the Director and Head of Research at the Wikimedia Foundation, the foundation that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects.
Tom Zick
Tom Zick has her PhD from UC Berkeley and researches the intersection of open data governance, AI ethics, and cybersecurity.
Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of…