Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School Sort descending | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Ian | Lundberg | Information Science | Economic volatility and the changing the U.S. population age structure | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Fernando | Delgado | Information Science | Sociotechnical Design and Governance in Automated Legal Discovery | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant | |
Aditya | Vashistha | Information Science | Making AI Explainable to Community Health Workers in Rural India | AI-driven diagnostic applications are increasingly deployed to support low-skilled community health workers (CHWs) in hard-to-reach communities. This work aims to examine how CHWs in rural settings engage with AI explanations and what they need to know to safely operate such systems in high-stakes healthcare contexts. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
David | Mimno | Information Science | Developing Methods for Joint Analysis of Close-Ended and Open-Ended Survey Data | We drew specific connections between new statistical methods and established practices for evaluating free-text survey results. This comparison helps survey researchers in adapting new tools, and helps computational researchers in recognizing how tools are actually being used. Results were published in JASIST. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Jess | Hohenstein | Information Science | Developing a Complete Framework for the Social Effects of AI in Communication | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant | |
Gili | Vidan | Information Science | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Penny | Stewart | Information Science | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Matthew | Wilkens | Information Science | Machine learning for online medical support communities | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Aditya | Vashistha | Information Science | Use of AI-driven malnutrition diagnosis technology among community health workers in rural India | 2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Rama Adithya | Varanasi | Information Science | Digital Technologies in Occupational Wellbeing: Designing for Teachers in Low-Income Indian Schools | Varanasi conducted mixed-methods research to explore low-income teachers’ inhibitions around seeking digital social support. He is conducting virtual interviews with teachers, higher management, and non-profit personnel, to gain insights into the challenges that low-income teachers are facing to seek digital support practices during pandemic. The funding is helping him to recruit 55 participants. The study will be making an important contribution towards inequity issues that impact women teachers’ overall job security and their daily work practices. |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
Negar | Khojasteh | Information Science | How International Students and Their Spouses use Technology to Communicate with their Families | Negar's thesis is focused on understanding the challenges international students face as they communicate with their families remotely. Her goal is to contribute to theories related to family communication as well as designing new technological tools for this population. The grant also covered expenses of Atlas.ti and otter.ai (analysis and transcription tools). |
2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
Ian | Lundberg | Information Science | Data-Adaptive Experiments to Discover Discrimination in Context | In what context is discrimination most severe? Using an experimental approach that updates treatment assignment rules as information is learned, this study will discover the contexts in which human decision-makers make especially discriminatory pairwise choices. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
David | Mimno | Information Science | Text as Data Conference | The 12th annual New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data (TADA) meeting will take place at Cornell Tech. TADA is the premiere venue for computational social science work involving documents, social media, and other text. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Karen | Levy | Information Science | Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance | The time and resources of the CCSS Fellowship enabled me to make significant progress on a book manuscript (Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance). I also became a New America National Fellow and worked on several journal articles related to technology, automation, and social life. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Karen | Levy | Information Science | Prediction in Practice: Understanding High-Stakes Human Encounters with Artificial Intelligence | This grant supported expenses for an invitational workshop held at Cornell Tech between AI practitioners and scholars researching public sector algorithms. The outcomes of the workshop will be reflected in Stanford University's AI100 report in 2021. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Aditya | Vashistha | Information Science | Combating Global Health Misinformation via Community-Engaged Research | 2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Brennan | Antone | Information Science | Social Onboarding for LLMs: Examining Communication and Social Support Around Generative AI Use. | Generative AI chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT) require skill to use effectively. We consider how social learning (human-human interaction) can shape how people approach Generative AI. Through interviews and observation of chatbot use in social conditions, we explore how people learn to prompt and apply AI tools. |
2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Anthonia | Carter | Information Science | How Race and Gender Stereotypes Impact Crowdfunding Outcome | We study how racial discrimination and gender roles stereotypes influence crowdfunding campaigns’ outcomes. We focus on outcomes experienced by Black female founders and how their chances of success change as product complexity and targeted market vary. Our results will inform policy and platform design interventions. |
2023 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Maria | Håkansson | Information Science | Intervening in American Families' Busyness: Marrying Anthropological Understanding with IT Design | 2011 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Gili | Vidan | Information Science | Technologies of Trust: The Making of Electronic Authentication in Postwar United States | This book traces technical attempts to solve the problems of trust and authentication over the past seven decades in the US. It argues that the digital transformation of objects such as checks, signatures, and coins constituted a fundamental shift in the nature of public trust. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Allison | Koenecke | Information Science | Dialectal Fairness in Korean Speech-to-Text Technology | Using a Korean corpus of five regional dialects plus “standard” Korean speech, we address the problem of speech-to-text fairness in commercial technology. Will non-standard dialects have worse error rates, and what are the drivers and remedies for disparities? Comprehensive linguistic analysis of Korean dialects follows. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Phoebe | Sengers | Information Science | Intervening in American Families' Busyness: Marrying Anthropological Understanding with IT Design | This research on new methods to research busyness was published as "Reworking the Gaps between Design and Ethnography" in the CHI 2017 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Jingjin | Li | Information Science | Understanding and designing technologies to support everyday mindfulness for mental wellbeing | This project aims to understand how mindfulness practitioners incorporate mindfulness practice in their daily activities with and without technology, using semi-structured interviews and design workshops. Insights generated from the study will inform the design of mindfulness tools that scaffold novice practitioners' mindfulness journey, adapt and personalize their practice for their mental wellbeing needs. |
2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
Margot | Hanley | Information Science | An Ethical Assessment of Commercial Brain Computer Interfaces | As brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) become more mainstream in the market, it is essential to consider the ethical implications for individuals and society as a whole. While BCIs have the potential to revolutionize the treatment of cognitive and sensory motor conditions, they also introduce pressing ethical issues around values such as autonomy and agency, dignity, privacy and security, and fairness. In my PhD dissertation, I aim to develop a comprehensive understanding of the ethics of commercial BCI in four parts: 1) exploring the production of commercial BCIs, 2) analyzing the technology and applications of BCIs, 3) examining ethical and conceptual issues, and 4) developing policy considerations for BCIs. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell Tech | QuIRI Grant |
Vaghlea | Palashi | Information Science | Articulating South Asian Feminist Visions for Technology | Funding supported fieldwork with South Asian feminist organizations leading to the design of a new research project on caste and computing. Results presented at two conferences and informed interventions related to caste in the inclusion program of a major technology firm in India. | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | How University Status Impacts the Stigma Attached to Online Degrees | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant | |
Malte | Jung | Information Science | Social Onboarding for LLMs: Examining Communication and Social Support Around Generative AI Use. | Generative AI chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT) require skill to use effectively. We consider how social learning (human-human interaction) can shape how people approach Generative AI. Through interviews and observation of chatbot use in social conditions, we explore how people learn to prompt and apply AI tools.
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2024 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Cristobal | Cheyre | Information Science | How Race and Gender Stereotypes Impact Crowdfunding Outcome | We study how racial discrimination and gender roles stereotypes influence crowdfunding campaigns’ outcomes. We focus on outcomes experienced by Black female founders and how their chances of success change as product complexity and targeted market vary. Our results will inform policy and platform design interventions. |
2023 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Joy | Ming | Information Science | Visibilizing Work: Collecting In-Depth Narratives of Home Care Workers for Advocacy | Home care workers (HCWs) are essential but vulnerable workers—a lot of their difficult working conditions and out-of-scope contributions are rendered invisible. My project collects and aggregates data and stories of HCWs to develop a comprehensive narrative to reduce wage theft and advocate for fairer wages. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Grant |
Rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | Learning at Scale Conference at Cornell Tech | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant | |
Madiha | Choksi | Information Science | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Fernando | Delgado | Information Science | Critical perspectives on the qualitative study of computational and information systems | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Phoebe | Sengers | Information Science, Science and Technology Studies | Articulating South Asian Feminist Visions for Technology | Funding supported fieldwork with South Asian feminist organizations leading to the design of a new research project on caste and computing. Results presented at two conferences and informed interventions related to caste in the inclusion program of a major technology firm in India. | 2017 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Joshua | Woodard | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Farm Bill Dairy Title Milk Producer Survey in NY State | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Brian | Wansink | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Impact of Social Eating Patterns on Workplace Productivity and Organizational Commitment: Initiating a Program of Firefighter Research | This field-based research yielded the most-read article in the journal, _Human Performance_ (doi: 10.1080/08959285.2015.1021049) and popular write-ups including a feature-story in _Harvard Business Review_ (December 2015 issue). | 2010 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Kevin | Kniffin | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Moral Values and Perceptions of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery | 2020 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | COVID_19 Grant | ||
John | Doris | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Moral Values and Perceptions of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery | 2020 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Sarah E. | Wolfolds | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Employee Incentives in Microfinance Institutions:Examining the Importance of Diversification and Profit Status | The survey was included in a paper awarded the Charles H. Levine Best Conference Paper from the Public and Nonprofit Division, presented at the Academy of Management in Chicago in August 2018. Follow-up grants were awarded to continue this project, and further publications are pending. | 2016 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Measuring the Economic and Environmental Consequences of COVID-19 | 2020 | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Sharon | Poctzer | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Measuring the Impact of Firm's Resource Misallocation on Growth in Developing Economies: Evidence from Indonesia | 2013 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Ariel | Ortiz-Bobea | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Can public institutions resolve information asymmetries? Historical evidence from the French wine market | This grant led to a paper "How big is the “lemons” problem? Historical evidence from French wines" (European Economic Review, 2021) and the publication of a new historical department-level dataset of French wine production and price data for 1907–1969. |
2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Ben | Leyden | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | A Platform-wide Analysis of Firm Responses to Platform-owner | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The Employment Effects of Green Investment: the Case of Solar and Wind Electricity Generation | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Roach | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship | This project garnered over 2 million in funding, produced over 100 publications on topics including entrepreneurial team evolution; creativity evaluation; intellectual property rights; and scholarly originality. It was a catalyst for the Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship LLM degree and the undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor. | 2013-2016 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Jeffrey | Prince | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Assessing Gender Differences in Time Consistency | 2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Edith | Liu | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The effect of globalization on bank operations and borrowing costs | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Calum | Turvey | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | The John Lossing Buck Project | This grant was used to conduct field research and background research on John Lossing Buck and agriculture in China’s Republican era. The grant was used to support publication of two books. 1) Fu, Hong and Calum G. Turvey (2018) “The Evolution of Agricultural Credit During China’s Republican Era, 1912-1949”. Palgrave McMillan 2) Hu, Hao, Funing Zhong and Calum G. Turvey (2019) “Chinese Agriculture in the 1930’s: Investigations into John Lossing Buck’s Rediscovered ‘Land Use in China’ Microdata”, Palgrave McMillan. * | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Shanjun | Li | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | China's Cities: Divisions and Plans | This 5-person project team secured $340,000 in external funding and produced over a dozen publications during their 3-year project term. Research topics included the auto industry, nationalist protests, the impact of urban air pollution, China’s industrial policy, and the politics of urban services for migrant labor. | 2016-2019 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
William | Tomek | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Secondary Effects of Biofuels Demands: Implications for Feed and Livestock | Led to a publication in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review entitled the Implications of Growing Biofuels Demands on Northeast Livestock Feed Costs, with L. Verteramo and W. Tomek, April 2009. The research was used extensively in numerous Extension presentations in New York State. | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Kevin | Kniffin | Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management | Teamwork, Leadership, and Convergence Skills as Avenues for Success for STEM Doctoral Students and Programs | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Grant Writing Support Program |
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