Coauthored 'Ghost Work' with Mary L. Gray; conducted multiple research projects including the relationship between network topology and human behavior, studies on on-demand workers, and the impact of AI on society.
Research Experience
Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research; led the design, building, and conducting of 'virtual lab' experiments; studied the on-demand workers who power many modern apps, websites, and AI systems; explored the future of work during and after the COVID-19 pandemic; recently analyzing the effects of AI on society.
Background
A computational social scientist at Microsoft Research, focusing on the relationship between network topology and human behavior; one of the leaders in designing, building, and conducting 'virtual lab' experiments using Amazon's Mechanical Turk; studied the on-demand workers who power many modern apps, websites, and AI systems; coauthored 'Ghost Work' with Mary L. Gray; explored the future of work during and after the COVID-19 pandemic; recently analyzing the effects of AI on society.