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Gili Vidan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell Bowers University. He is also a member of the graduate field in Science and Technology Studies and the Media Studies minor field. Vidan is a trained historian of computing, whose work examines how abstract political concepts like trust and good governance are influenced and reshaped by digital technologies. His research particularly focuses on how political, social, commercial, and epistemic values materialize in communication technologies, including payment systems and automated check-processing. His book, “Technologies Trust,” is part of the accepted Infrastructures series from MIT Press, and it explores technical attempts to address issues of trust and authentication in the postwar United States.
Department of Computer Science - PhD program focus on research leadership.