CITP HIGHLIGHTS

• CITP welcomed its first cohort of Emerging Scholars.
• We launched a fall CITP Research Fair that drew 50 students and 21 mentors.
• We celebrated 13 Princeton Class of '22 graduates who earned Technology & Society certificates.
• We hosted two dozen lunch seminars with an interdisciplinary slate of speakers and topics ranging from diversifying AI to rethinking machine learning.
• CITP drew nearly 200 guests to the first in our “Tech in Conversation” series, Imagining Radical Tech Futures.

SPECIAL EVENT

RESEARCH NEWS

MEDIA MENTIONS

• Kenia Hale was interviewed by local news site Freshwater Cleveland for the story, Two generations of environmental advocates warn of climate change urgency. Hale also appeared in the Boston Review article, How a New Generation Is Combatting Digital Surveillance.
• Mihir Kshirsager, who heads CITP’s Tech Policy Clinic, was quoted in The New Stack story, Critics of ‘Deceptive Design’ Push for a More Ethical UX.
• CITP Fellow Orestis Papakyriakopoulos was interviewed by the digital news site TechCrunch for the story, Researchers fear what a Musk acquisition might mean for Twitter research data.
• CITP Fellow Sergey Sanovich was quoted in Wired magazine for the story, Google's Russian Empire Faces an Uncertain Future.

TECH TALKS

• Emerging Scholar Kenia Hale participated in the April 28 panel, Ohio Voices Informing Energy Choices. Hale is also participating in the Artificial Intelligence for Collective Intelligence workshop, in Doha, Qatar.
• CITP Fellow Sergey Sanovich spoke on a panel about digital sovereignty and repression at the Digital Economy and Security Collaborative (DESC) Workshop at Georgetown University in April. He discussed the consequences of a fragmented internet on the future of digital disinformation, and how digital censorship would look in a disconnected cyberspace.
• Computer science professor Arvind Narayanan gave a talk at the University of Cambridge in May on the research-practice gap in authentication, based on the dissertation of CITP graduate student Kevin Lee. 
• Mihir Kshirsagar, who oversees CITP's Tech Policy Clinic, spoke in May at an Institute for Futures Studies conference in Stockholm, Sweden on the challenges and possibilities of machine learning in public decision making. He also spoke at the National Association of Attorneys General Consumer Protection Spring Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, on both dark patterns and cryptocurrencies.
• CITP Fellow Sarah Scheffler gave a talk entitled, A Systemization of Content Moderation in End-to-End Encryption, at the DIMACS Workshop on Co-Development of Computer Science and Law at Rutgers University in May. CITP researcher Anunay Kulshrestha also presented a paper,  "Public Verification for Private Hash Matching,” at the workshop; it was co-authored by Scheffler and Jonathan Mayer, a CITP faculty member.

CAREER MOVES

• Ryan Amos '22, a former CITP graduate student and expert in longitudinal web measurements, will join Panorama Education as a senior software engineer in September.
• Jordan Holland, a CITP graduate student with expertise in machine learning and networking, is joining Netflix as a senior software engineer.
• Ben Kaiser, a CITP graduate student, is interning this summer with DuckDuckGo.
• Lauren Kilgour, a CITP Fellow who studies the social impacts of technology design and use, will join the University of Waterloo's Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business in Ontario, Canada as assistant professor in design and technology.
• Kevin Lee, a computer science graduate student at CITP, is joining J.P. Morgan AI Research in New York City as a research scientist.
• Eli Lucherini, a graduate student at CITP, will be interning this summer with the WebKit Security and Privacy team in the Internet Technologies division at Apple.
• Professor Arvind Narayanan, a CITP faculty member, will join the Knight Institute as a visiting researcher during the 2022-23 academic year.
• Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, a CITP Fellow and expert in algorithmic fairness and political communication will join Sony AI Inc. in Zurich, Switzerland, as an AI ethics research scientist
• Sociology professor Matthew Salganik, the outgoing director of CITP, will be on sabbatical with the Institute for Advanced Study during the 2022-23 school year.
• This fall, Sergey Sanovich, a CITP Fellow and expert in authoritarian regimes, digital censorship, and computational propaganda, will join the Hoover Institution at Stanford University as a Hoover Fellow.
• Matthew Sun '22, a former CITP graduate student whose research focused on the socio-technical aspects of recommender systems and privacy and safety in labor organizing within the tech industry, will be joining Stripes as a software engineer in August.
• CITP Data Scientist Amy Winecoff will be serving on the advisory board for the Princeton Keller Center’s eLab accelerator program this summer.

BYLINES

• Emerging Scholar Kenia Hale’s short story, Data That Chills, has been published in the Spring 2022 edition of Hopper Magazine.
• A feature story, e-raced, written by Matthew Sun '22, was published in Kernel Magazine.
• Janet Vertesi, an assistant professor of sociology and CITP-affiliated faculty member, wrote an op-ed, I hid my pregnancy from the internet so I know: Online privacy is nearly impossible, that appeared in the Los Angeles Times.