Dr. Danaé Metaxa

Biography

Danaé Metaxa is a computer scientist and computational social scientist at Annenberg University. Her research focuses on bias representation in algorithmically-mediated content, with a particular emphasis on the experiences of marginalized communities. She explores the implications of sociotechnical systems and their effects on users in high-stakes social contexts such as employment and politics. Danaé's work has been published in top-tier venues, including the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) and the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). In addition to her research, she has served in advisory roles with various legal, industry, and policy groups, including the NYC Commission on Human Rights. Danaé is also part of the editorial board for the Journal of Online Trust and Safety and has previously been involved in the CSCW steering committee. Before joining Penn, she was a fellow at Stanford University's McCoy Center for Ethics in Society and a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society. Danaé holds an A.B. from Brown University and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

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