Danaé Metaxa
Ελληνικά: Δαναός Μεταξάς
Raj & Neera Singh Assistant Professor
Computer & Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
News
- 10/2025 - I'll be giving the Closing Keynote at Connected Learning Summit 2025.
- 06/2025 - I'm extremely happy to announce that I was awarded an NSF CAREER award!
- 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; welcome Emma!)
- 06/2024 - I will be one of the General Chairs for FAccT 2025, in Athens, Greece.
- 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.
About
My name is Danaé Metaxa (first name pronounced like “deny”), and I am the 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. I am the co-founder of the Penn HCI group, and serve as Faculty Advisor to Penn’s Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy.
My group conducts audits and evaluations of sociotechnical systems, in particular focusing on high-stakes domains like politics, employment, law and policy, and targeted ads.
Prior to joining Penn, I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University, working in the Stanford HCI Group and the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society’s Program on Democracy and the Internet.
PhD Students and Postdocs
- Emma Lurie, Postdoctoral scholar
- Alejandra Regla-Vargas, Postdoctoral scholar
- Ro Encarnación, PhD student
- Stephanie Wang, PhD student
- Princess Sampson, PhD student
- Mialy Rasetarinera
Other Students
I also work closely with a number of other students, including:
- Luis Morales-Navarro, Penn Graduate School of Education PhD student
- Daniel J. Noh, Penn Graduate School of Education PhD student
- Lena Armstrong, Penn ‘23 and Harvard CS PhD student
- Kowe Kadoma, Cornell Tech Information Science PhD student
- Victor Ojewale, Brown University Computer 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 2026 - CIS700: Foundations and Frontiers in HCI
Fa 2025 - CIS700: Algorithmic Justice
Fa 2024 - CIS412/512: Human-Computer Interaction
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)
My name is Danaé Metaxa (first name pronounced like “deny”), and I am the 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. I am the co-founder of the Penn HCI group, and serve as Faculty Advisor to Penn’s Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy.
My group conducts audits and evaluations of sociotechnical systems, in particular focusing on high-stakes domains like politics, employment, law and policy, and targeted ads.
Prior to joining Penn, I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University, working in the Stanford HCI Group and the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society’s Program on Democracy and the Internet.
PhD Students and Postdocs
- Emma Lurie, Postdoctoral scholar
- Alejandra Regla-Vargas, Postdoctoral scholar
- Ro Encarnación, PhD student
- Stephanie Wang, PhD student
- Princess Sampson, PhD student
- Mialy Rasetarinera
Other Students
I also work closely with a number of other students, including:
- Luis Morales-Navarro, Penn Graduate School of Education PhD student
- Daniel J. Noh, Penn Graduate School of Education PhD student
- Lena Armstrong, Penn ‘23 and Harvard CS PhD student
- Kowe Kadoma, Cornell Tech Information Science PhD student
- Victor Ojewale, Brown University Computer 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 2026 - CIS700: Foundations and Frontiers in HCI
Fa 2025 - CIS700: Algorithmic Justice
Fa 2024 - CIS412/512: Human-Computer Interaction
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)