Danaë Metaxa
Raj & Neera Singh Assistant Professor
Computer & Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
News
- 11/2024 - Dr. Sorelle Friedler and I are looking for a postdoctoral scholar for an 18-mo postdoc on civil rights AI audits. (Call closed; hiring decisions TBD!)
- 06/2024 - FAccT 2025 will be held in Athens, Greece! I will be one of the General Chairs; if you are a graduate student (particularly in Athens) interested in a paid RA role, please email me.
- 04/2024 - All four (!) of PennHCI's NSF GRFP applicants were funded this year! Huge congratulations to our PhD students Princess, Ro, Hita, and post-bac RA (incoming Harvard PhD student) Lena!
Bio
Danaë Metaxa is Raj and Neera Singh Term Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Computer and Information Science department, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. Along with Andrew Head, they are the co-founder and co-leader of the Penn HCI group.
In their research, Dr. Metaxa studies bias and representation in algorithmic systems and content, focusing on high-stakes social settings like politics and employment, and on marginalized groups. Recently, their group has been developing sociotechnical auditing, an algorithm/AI auditing method that combines traditional auditing with user-centered behavioral science interventions, to understand how algorithmic systems and their end users impact each other.
Prior to joining Penn, Dr. Metaxa was a postdoctoral scholar with the Stanford Center of Philanthropy and Civil Society’s Program on Democracy and the Internet, and a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Stanford University.
PhD Students
- Princess Sampson
- Ro Encarnacion
- Stephanie Wang
- Ekaterina Fedorova (co-advised with Chara Podimata, MIT Sloan)
- Mialy Rasetarinera (co-advised with Konrad Kording, Penn Bioengineering)
Other Students
I also work closely with a number of other students, including:
- Luis Morales-Navarro, Penn Graduate School of Education PhD student
- Lena Armstrong, Penn ‘23 and incoming Harvard CS PhD student
- Shengchun Huang, Penn Annenberg PhD student
- Kowe Kadoma, Cornell Tech Information Science PhD student
Penn and Prospective Student FAQs
If you’re a student (at Penn or elsewhere) with a question related to my teaching or research, please make sure to read my FAQ before sending an email.
Teaching
Sp 2024 - CIS700: Algorithmic Justice
Fa 2023 - CIS412/512: Human-Computer Interaction
Sp 2023 - CIS700: Algorithmic Justice
Fa 2022 - CIS399: Human-Computer Interaction
Sp 2021 - CS347: Human-Computer Interaction Research (co-taught with Parastoo Abtahi)
Danaë Metaxa is Raj and Neera Singh Term Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Computer and Information Science department, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. Along with Andrew Head, they are the co-founder and co-leader of the Penn HCI group.
In their research, Dr. Metaxa studies bias and representation in algorithmic systems and content, focusing on high-stakes social settings like politics and employment, and on marginalized groups. Recently, their group has been developing sociotechnical auditing, an algorithm/AI auditing method that combines traditional auditing with user-centered behavioral science interventions, to understand how algorithmic systems and their end users impact each other.
Prior to joining Penn, Dr. Metaxa was a postdoctoral scholar with the Stanford Center of Philanthropy and Civil Society’s Program on Democracy and the Internet, and a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Stanford University.
PhD Students
- Princess Sampson
- Ro Encarnacion
- Stephanie Wang
- Ekaterina Fedorova (co-advised with Chara Podimata, MIT Sloan)
- Mialy Rasetarinera (co-advised with Konrad Kording, Penn Bioengineering)
Other Students
I also work closely with a number of other students, including:
- Luis Morales-Navarro, Penn Graduate School of Education PhD student
- Lena Armstrong, Penn ‘23 and incoming Harvard CS PhD student
- Shengchun Huang, Penn Annenberg PhD student
- Kowe Kadoma, Cornell Tech Information Science PhD student
Penn and Prospective Student FAQs
If you’re a student (at Penn or elsewhere) with a question related to my teaching or research, please make sure to read my FAQ before sending an email.
Teaching
Sp 2024 - CIS700: Algorithmic Justice
Fa 2023 - CIS412/512: Human-Computer Interaction
Sp 2023 - CIS700: Algorithmic Justice
Fa 2022 - CIS399: Human-Computer Interaction
Sp 2021 - CS347: Human-Computer Interaction Research (co-taught with Parastoo Abtahi)