Scholar
Madelyne Xiao
Google Scholar ID: 6NrmktMAAAAJ
Princeton University
Citations & Impact
Citations
62
H-index
4
i10-index
3
Publications
7
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Will be working at CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University, in summer 2025.
- Visiting researcher at MIT’s Internet Policy Research Initiative (IPRI) during the 2024–2025 academic year.
- Previously worked as a fact checker and editorial producer at The New Yorker, collaborating on print and digital stories, designing layouts, and writing capsule book reviews.
- Researched marine invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History.
- Reviewed submissions for the Quarterly at McSweeney’s.
- Reported on infectious disease research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Miscellany
- Occasionally takes on book-length fact-checking projects.
- Interests include footnotes and indexes, archives (old and new), letterlocking, Joan Acocella on Mikhail Baryshnikov, Janet Malcolm on Yuja Wang, innate number sense in non-human animals, and Oulipo/constrained writing (subject of an unfinished honors thesis).
- Enjoys bridge (“down for a cross” likely refers to bridge bidding).
- Participated in the remote MIT Puzzle Hunt in 2021.
- Likes silken tofu with century egg.
- Online handle: @madxiaodisease on some platforms, Madelyne elsewhere.
Co-authors