Marika Cifor received a Smithsonian Institution Senior Fellowship for a book project titled “The Treatment Underground: Buyer’s Clubs, Data Activism, and the Politics of Illness from AIDS to COVID-19.”
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna’s book titled The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want will be published by HarperCollins.
Hayoung Jung (CSE MS Student), advised by Tanu Mitra, received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award.
Shahan Ali Memon (PhD student) and co-authors Bedoor AlShebli, and Kinga Makovi's paper titled "Characterizing the effect of retractions on publishing careers" was published in Nature Human Behaviour.
Chirag Shah and co-author Souvick Ghosh’s paper “Spoken Conversational Search: Evaluating the Effect of System Clarifications on User Experience through Wizard-of-Oz Study” will be published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST).
Melanie Walsh and co-authors Connor Rey, Chang Ge, Tina Nowak, and Sabina Tomkin’s paper titled “Algorithms in the Stacks: Investigating Data-Driven, For-Profit Diversity Audits in Public Libraries” was accepted to the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025).
Shahan Ali Memon (PhD student) and co-authors Shehryar Ahmed Subhani, and Bedoor AlShebli’s paper titled "CareerMap: A Large-Scale Dataset of Career Trajectories Across 572 Million Records" was accepted to 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) for a poster presentation.
Melanie Walsh gave a Data Science/Computational Social Science Seminar titled “What do LLMs Know About Poetry?” at the University of Michigan School of Information.
Melanie Walsh was interviewed for an article titled “Trump Administration Bars NPS from Reporting Visitor Data” published on Mountain Journal.