Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College Sort ascending | Grant Type |
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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 |
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 | |
Nicola | Dell | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Malte | Jung | Information Science | Comparative Assessment of Intra-Personal and Inter-Personal Emotion Regulation in Robotic Versus Laparoscopic Surgery | 2015 | Spring | 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 |
Dan | Cosley | Information Science | Identifying, Modeling, and Visualizing Disclosure of Personal Information in Social Media | Cosley's 2013 fellowship contributed to a $1.2 million NSF grant with Natalie Bazarova and Janis Whitlock that produced many well-cited publications around communication, relationships, mental health, design, and privacy in social media, helping several PhD students and postdocs launch successful research careers. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 | |
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 |
Steven | Jackson | Information Science | Comparative Assessment of Intra-Personal and Inter-Personal Emotion Regulation in Robotic Versus Laparoscopic Surgery | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
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 |
Rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | Prosocial Behaviors in the Digital Age | This team has generated over $900,000 in grants and 45 publications thus far, including 1 book. Research topics include the Social Media TestDrive project, fact-checking dynamics on Reddit, diverse participation in online education, underestimating others' willingness to help, and encouraging bystander interventions on social media. | 2018-2021 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
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 | |
Solon | Barocas | 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 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant |
Rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | Learning at Scale Conference at Cornell Tech | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant | |
Jon | Kleinberg | Computer Science | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. | 2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
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 |
Martin | Wells | Statistical Science | Algorithms, Big Data, and Inequality | This project has produced over $927,000 in external grants and 39 publications thus far. Research topics include algorithmic management among cultural workers, agency of data subjects, estimation of causal effects from data for counterfactual fairness and comparing compliance procedures and research proposals for non-discrimination in statistical models. | 2018-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
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 | |
A. Feder | Cooper | Computer 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 | Sociotechnical Design and Governance in Automated Legal Discovery | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | 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 |
Cristian | Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil | Information Science | Improving Online Discourse Through Conversational Modeling | The CCSS fellowship allowed me to assimilate a new qualitative dimension into my (traditionally quantitative) research. This enabled a mixed-methods study of proactive moderation practices and of the potential for algorithmic support in multiple online discussion platforms and has (so far) led to a CSCW publication in the PACM HCI journal. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 | |
Rene | Kizilcec | Information Science | Content & Impact of Diversity Statements in Course Syllabi | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | CCSS Grant | |
Lillian | Lee | Computer Science | The Verbal End: Interactions Between Computational Textual Analysis and the Social Sciences | Lee has received multiple society honors (AAAI Fellow, 2013, ACL Fellow, 2017, ACM Fellow 2018) citing contributions to computational social science; the 2008 ISS Fellowship was the first formal encouragement for her to start along this path. | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Faculty Fellows Program | |
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 |
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 | |
Jen | Liu | Information Science | Understanding the impact of climate change on networked infrastructures in vulnerable coastal communities in south Louisiana | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | QuIRI 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 |
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 | |
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 |
Solon | Barocas | Information Science | Algorithms, Big Data, and Inequality | This project has produced over $927,000 in external grants and 39 publications thus far. Research topics include algorithmic management among cultural workers, agency of data subjects, estimation of causal effects from data for counterfactual fairness and comparing compliance procedures and research proposals for non-discrimination in statistical models. | 2018-2021 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Computing and Information Science | Collaborative Project | |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
Netta | Barak-Corren | Law | The Effects on Children of Equality Rules for Religious Placement Agencies | Through triangulating in-depth interviews, original datasets, and national archive data on child placement outcomes, this comprehensive analysis will explore the question, are children harmed when child placement agencies close their doors rather than follow anti-discrimination rules that violate their religious beliefs? |
2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Hebrew University | CCSS Grant |
Xóchitl | Bada | Latin American and Latino Studies | Portable Rights for Migrant Workers: Bringing the Sending State Back Into the Local | As international migration continues to rise, countries of origin have played an increasing role in engaging their emigrants; however, we know little about how they are being held accountable for the services offered to their diasporas. To fill the gap, this book analyzes on-the-ground, transnational defense of migrant labor rights.
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2021 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Illinois | CCSS Grant |
Ned | Augenblick | Can Subjects Play Equilibria of Purified Games? | This study examined why subjects fail to play mixed-strategy equilibria in zero-sum games, calling into question prior research which suggests that experimental subjects do not follow the predictions of game theory and cannot bring the skills and heuristics used in real‐life economies into the laboratory. |
2011 | Spring | Co-PI | University of California Berkeley | 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 | |
Laura | Niemi | Applied Economics and Management, Psychology | Civility as a contextualized social psychological phenomenon | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Kathleen | O'Connor | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks | This project garnered a record-breaking 22 million in external funding, including Michael Macy’s 2 million NSF project on large semi-structured datasets (2005). In addition, Jon Kleinberg and David Easley created a highly-subscribed, interdisciplinary course, which continues to launch the next generation of networks scholars. | 2005-2008 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Kaitlin | Woolley | Marketing and Management Communication | The Hidden Costs of Intrinsic Motivation | Intrinsic motivation is championed as a benefit that people should aspire to, with little attention paid to the negative consequences. We study an interpersonal cost of high intrinsic motivation: managers are more likely to burden intrinsically motivated employees with extra work tasks.
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2024 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Chris K. | Anderson | Johnson Graduate School of Management | 2010 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing conference in 2010 at Cornell University | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
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