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Hong Shen is an Assistant Research Professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017. His research centers around social policy dimensions of digital platforms and algorithmic systems, with a strong focus on issues of bias, fairness, social justice, and power relations within the realm of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. His work has garnered funding from prestigious organizations such as the National Science Foundation, Amazon, Cisco, and the Block Center for Technology and Society. Hong is also a recipient of the Google Policy Fellowship, which underscores his contributions to the field. He engages actively with the academic community, having had media mentions related to his work and involvement with faculty and students in significant conferences like the USENIX Security Symposium.
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