Alex Hanna, Ph.D.

alex.hanna@gmail.com


Research Scientist

Google

Year of PhD: 2016

City: Oakland, California - 94611

Country: United States

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About Me:

I am a sociologist working on machine learning fairness and ethical AI at Google. Before that, I was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto.I received my PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My dissertation was the Machine-learning Protest Event Data System (MPEDS), a system which uses machine learning and natural language processing to create protest event data.My research has focused on how new and social media has changed social movement mobilization and political participation. I rely on large-scale data collections and computational tools in my research, with an emphasis on automated textual analysis and machine learning. More recently, I've been interested in issues of fairness, accountability, and transparency in sociotechnical systems.

Research Interests

Text as Data

Political Communication

Research Methods & Research Design

Middle East & North African Politics

LGBTQIA Politics

Computational Social Science

Social Movements

Social Media

Algorithmic Fairness

Countries of Interest

Egypt

United States