Funding

I have been fortunate to receive generous funding from several sources throughout my career.

• Northwestern University/Underwriters Laboratories. Dark Patterns in AI-enabled Consumer Experiences, June 1 2023 – December 31 2025. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with David Choffnes. $275000.
• National Science Foundation. Supplement: Mid-scale RI-1 (M1:IP): Observatory for Online Human and Platform Behavior, January 1 2023 – September 30 2026. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with David Lazer and David Choffnes. $167000 (NEU), $500000 (Total).
• National Institute of Health. Older Adult Suicidality and Social Behavior (OASIS-B), January 1 2022 – December 31 2026. Co-Primary Investigator. $931000.
• National Science Foundation. Mid-scale RI-1 (M1:IP): Observatory for Online Human and Platform Behavior, October 1 2021 – September 30 2026. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with David Lazer and David Choffnes. $15717700.
• Pymetrics. Auditing Pymetrics Models for Gender and Racial Bias, March 26 2020 – July 31 2020. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with Alan Mislove. $104465.
• Google. 2019 Android Security and Privacy REsearch project (ASPIRE), December 1 2019. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with David Choffnes. $75000.
• Russell Sage Foundation. Assessing Algorithmic and Human Selective Exposure to Political Information, September 1 2019 – August 31 2020. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with Brendan Nyhan (Dartmouth) and Andrew Guess (Princeton). $172057.
• National Science Foundation. CHS: Small: Auditing Critical Dependencies Between Online Media Platforms, August 15 2019 – July 31 2022. Primary Investigator. $499811.
• Sloan Foundation. Sloan Fellowship, June 1 2019 – May 31 2021. Primary Investigator. $75000.
• National Science Foundation. CNS Core: Large: Collaborative Research: Towards an Evolvable Public Key Infrastructure, June 1 2019 – May 31 2022. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with Dave Levin (UMD) and Alan Mislove and Bruce Maggs (Duke) and Bryan Parno (CMU) and Taejoong Chung (RPI). $400936 (NEU), $1200000 (Total).
• Anti-Defamation League. Exposure to Hateful and Conspiratorial Content on YouTube, May 16 2019 – May 15 2020. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with Brendan Nyhan (Dartmouth) and Andrew Guess (Princeton) and Jason Reifler (Exeter). $50000.
• Mozilla Foundation. Integrating Value Sensitive Design Training Throughout the CS Curriculum, April 22 2019 – July 12 2020. Primary Investigator, joint with Ronald Sandler. $148349.
• National Science Foundation. Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Sharing economy - Humans, Automation, Resilience and Engineering: SHARE, September 1 2018 – July 31 2019. Co-Primary Investigator. $99423.
• Democracy Fund. Misinformation on Social Media Platforms Around the 2018 Election Season, September 1 2018 – August 31 2019. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with David Lazer. $40000.
• Russell Sage Foundation. Inequality in Online Labor Markets, July 1 2017 – June 30 2019. Primary Investigator, joint with Aniko Hannak and David Lazer. $113628.
• Northeastern University. TIER 1: Uncovering Strategic Consumer Data Collection and Sharing in Online Markets by Tracing Information Flows, July 1 2017 – June 30 2018. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with Yakov Bart. $50000.
• National Science Foundation. CAREER: Towards Methodologies and Tools for Conducting Algorithm Audits, CHS-1553088, July 1 2016 – June 30 2021. Primary Investigator. $504000.
• National Science Foundation. TWC: Medium: Collaborative: Measuring and Improving the Management of Today's PKI, CNS-1563320, July 1 2016 – June 30 2020. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with Dave Choffnes and Alan Mislove and Dave Levin (UMD) and Tudor Dumitraş (UMD). $598000 (NEU), $1198000 (Total).
• Knight Foundation. Public Access to Pricing Personalization, August 1 2015 – June 30 2016. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with David Lazer and Alan Mislove. $35000.
• Data Transparency Lab. Revealing and Controlling Mobile Privacy Leaks, July 1 2015 – July 1 2016. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with David Choffnes and Alan Milsove. $55000.
• National Science Foundation. CHS: Medium: Towards Transparency of Personalization on the Web, CHS-1408345, July 15 2014 – June 30 2018. Primary Investigator, joint with David Lazer and Alan Mislove. $743000.
• Intelligent Automation, Inc.. A Trusted Framework for Embedded Systems, January 1 2014 – December 31 2015. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with Engin Kirda and Wil Robertson. $225000.
• National Science Foundation. CSR: Small: Towards Confederated Web-Based Services, CNS-1319019, September 1 2013 – August 31 2016. Co-Primary Investigator, joint with Alan Mislove. $499000.
• Verisign Labs. Quantifying WHOIS Usage and Defending Against Abuse, July 1 2013. Primary Investigator, joint with Engin Kirda. $20000.