Jeffrey L Gleason
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
Hi! I’m a 3rd-year Computer Science PhD candidate at Northeastern’s Khoury College, where I’m advised by Christo Wilson.
I am interested in auditing algorithms - designing controlled experiments and observational studies to evaluate sociotechnical systems and their impact on people and societies. I am especially interested in the economic and political power of large digital platforms, like Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
Before Northeastern, I worked on identifying and characterizing disinformation campaigns at New Knowledge/Yonder and on time series forecasting and remote sensing research at Kungfu.ai.
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| Feb 2024 | I’m excited to join Roblox’s Trust and Safety team as a PhD Data Science intern this summer! |
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| Jan 2024 | Our paper Perceptions in Pixels: Analyzing Perceived Gender and Skin Tone in Real-world Image Search Results was accepted at WWW 2024 |
| Nov 2023 | Our papers “Market or Markets? Investigating Google Search’s Market Shares Under Vertical Segmentation” and “Search Engine Revenue from Navigational and Brand Advertising” were accepted at ICWSM 2024 More details to come next year. |
| Jun 2023 | Worked as a data scientist on the National Internet Observatory |
| Jun 2023 | Our paper Google the Gatekeeper: How Search Components Affect Clicks and Attention won the Best Paper Award at ICWSM 2023! We estimated the effects of Google Search components (e.g. featured-snippets and shopping-ads on user behavior using a causal inference approach. |