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Aniko Hannak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Zürich. She holds a Ph.D. from the College of Computer & Information Science at Northeastern University, where she was advised by Alan Mislove and David Lazer. Her research interests focus on Social Computing, particularly in how content-serving websites such as search engines, online stores, job search sites, and freelance marketplaces function within the rapidly changing online ecosystem. Her work investigates how companies track users' movements and how they use collected data and algorithms to present users with interesting and relevant content. Hannak's Ph.D. research led to the development of a methodology known as Algorithmic Auditing, aimed at uncovering the potential negative impacts of large online systems. Notable examples of her audits include examining the 'Filter Bubble effect' in Google Search and detecting online price discrimination and inequalities in labor markets.
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