The people behind this project.

Principal Investigator and Supervisor

Professor Darakhshan Mir

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Bucknell University

Darakhshan Mir is Associate Professor of Computer Science. At a higher level, she is interested in using computing as a critical analytical tool to interrogate the dominant values embedded in "mainstream" computational systems (including what is often labeled as AI) and to instead imagine computational systems that embed values that seek to transform the world into a more just place.

In her courses and by involving undergraduate students in research, she teaches critical computational thinking – using computing as an analytical lens to critically view our social, natural and built worlds, and when appropriate, participate in building and re-building these worlds by critically considering the values underpinning these worlds in collaboration with impacted communities.

Student Researcher and Guide Author

Hasiba Hasin Royesh

Senior, Computer Science and Engineering, Bucknell University

This summer Hasiba is contributing a literature review to the research paper on ethics-aligned careers and developing this career guide series. She also serves as Secretary of the Association for Computing Machinery chapter at Bucknell and is an Advisory Board Member of the 30 Birds Foundation, which supports Afghan girls through education and resettlement.

Faculty Collaborator

Professor Vanessa Massaro

Associate Professor and Chair of Geography, Bucknell University

Vanessa A. Massaro is an associate professor and chair of Geography at Bucknell University. Her research draws on mixed quantitative and ethnographic methods to explore the uneven, community impacts of mass incarceration in the United States. She has conducted ethnographic research in South Philadelphia as well as in the anthracite coal region where prisons are a primary source of jobs. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Association of University Women. Since 2018, she has been part of an interdisciplinary research team with a mathematician and computer scientists dedicated to the analysis and critique of criminal justice algorithms. The collaboration is supported by a Google Award for Inclusion Research and a Responsible Computing Challenge Grant from Mozilla. Her work is published in several peer-reviewed forums including Big Data and Society, ACME, Environment and Planning C and Antipode.

Faculty Collaborator

Professor Evan Peck

Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder

Professor Peck, formerly of Bucknell University, focuses his research on human-computer interaction, data visualization, and integrating ethics and social responsibility into computing education. He leads the Information Visions Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Doctoral Researcher

Frida Mudsam

3rd-year Doctoral Student in Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder

Frida Mudsam is a 3rd-year PhD student in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder working in the Information Visions Lab under Evan Peck. She holds a BA in Statistics and Data Science with a minor in Political Science and an MS in Applied Mathematics. Prior to beginning her doctoral work, she worked on research in the STUDIO political science lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder and worked full time with research groups at the University of Gothenburg studying the interaction between economic and political behavior and data. Her research interests include how political attitudes shape the interpretation and understanding of data and data visualizations, and how exposure to data visualizations can in turn influence political attitudes. More broadly, she is interested in the intersection of computing, data, and people, including how individuals' identities and lived experiences shape and are shaped by the technical systems they move through.