Ido Sivan-Sevilla (founder, PhD) is an assistant professor in UMD’s College of Information and affiliate professor in the School of Public Policy. He studies the governance of digital technologies, researching the design & implementation of tech policy issues through an array of methodologies including process-tracing analysis, computational text analysis, in-depth interviews, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), computational web scraping and vulnerability analysis, and social network analysis. For more information, see his website or email him directly.
Dr. Katie Shilton is a professor at the College of Information, where she studies technology and data ethics. She also leads the Ethics & Values in Design (EViD) Lab. She is a co-PI of the NSF and NIST-funded TRAILS Institute focused on trustworthy AI, and a co-PI of UMD’s Values Centered AI Initiative. She was also recently the PI of the PERVADE project, a multi-campus collaboration focused on big data research ethics. Other projects include improving online content moderation with human-in-the-loop machine learning techniques and designing experiential data ethics education.
Dr. Laura Fichtner is a post-doctoral researcher with the TRAILS institute where she researches how artificial intelligence technologies and particularly genAI can be developed and governed in a participatory and democratic manner. Prior to joining UMD, she received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg with a thesis on the politics of platform governance and the regulation of content moderation in Germany.
