Devansh Saxena is is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Marquette University. His research interests include studying algorithmic systems deployed in public services. His current research explores the collaborative work of child-welfare teams that participate in meetings mediated by policy, practice, and algorithms.
Erhardt Graeff is an Assistant Professor of Social and Computer Science at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and a faculty associate at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He works on the design and use of technology for civic engagement, civic learning, and empowerment, and the ethical responsibility of technologists as stewards of democracy.
Shion Guha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Marquette University. His research primarily focuses on understanding how algorithms are designed, deployed and implemented in public services such as child welfare or criminal justice systems. His methodological research focuses on developing methods that bridge computational and human-based analyses. Most recently, he has co-organized a panel on power, data and justice in CSCW 2019
EunJeong Cheon recently finished her Ph.D in HCI/Design at Indiana University Bloomington and will be joining the CS faculty at Aalborg University. Her work examines the roles of values in the design of robots and the IoT technology. She has explored how users, researchers, and artifacts can elicit and disseminate values and how new methods and theories could pragmatically serve them.
Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar is a Ph.D. student in the Center for Civic Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on studying and proposing participatory frameworks and methods to conduct community-based, low-cost, appropriate technology design in collaboration with rural, historically marginalized communities in Latin America.
Dawn Walker is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on values and design, social transformation, and imagined futures in the projects building decentralized alternatives to existing digital networks.
Christoph Becker is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. His research examines the role of human values in computing, the politics of systems design, and the social and cognitive processes of judgment and decision making in systems design. Most recently he was lead organizer of a Dagstuhl Seminar on Values in Computing and a PDC workshop on professional responsibility in computing.
Kenneth R. Fleischmann is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. His research examines the role of human values in the design and use of information technologies, particularly the ethics of AI. He is the Founding Chair of Good Systems, a UT Grand Challenge and the Founding Director for the undergraduate major in Informatics at the UT-Austin iSchool.