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Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program

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Matthew Bui

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Information
Dr. Matthew Bui (he/him) is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, and a faculty affiliate with the NYU Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies (CR+DS) and UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). Bu...
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Terri Friedline

Professor of Social Work
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Dr. Terri Friedline writes, organizes, and teaches about racial capitalism, technology, and the financial system. She is an associate professor of social work at the University of Michigan and is the author of “Banking on a Revolution: Why Financial ...
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Rajiv Ghimire

Lecturer in Environment and Sustainability
Rajiv Ghimire is a faculty member in the School for Environment and Sustainability focusing on Sustainability and Development. His teaching and research are centered on global development, climate and energy, adaptation and resilience, sustainable fo...
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J. Alex Halderman

Bredt Family Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Professor Halderman's research focuses on computer security and privacy, with an emphasis on problems that broadly impact society and public policy. Topics of interest include software security, network security, security measurement, privacy and ano...
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Ann Heffernan

Assistant Professor, LSA Department of Political Science
Ann Heffernan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her research and teaching interests include contemporary political theory, disability studies, feminist theory, and American political development. Her current book proje...
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Libby Hemphill

Associate Professor of Information, School of Information;
Research Associate Professor, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research;
Associate Professor of the Digital Studies Institute, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Libby Hemphill directs the Resource Center for Minority Data at ICPSR and holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in the UM School of Information. She joined ICPSR in September 2017 from Illinois Institute of Technology where she was an A...
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Merve Hickok

Lecturer II in Information; Senior Research Director of the Center for AI and Digital Policy
Merve Hickok is the President and Research Director at Center for AI & Digital Policy, deeply engaged in global AI policy and regulatory work. The Center educates AI policy practitioners and advocates across 60+ countries, advises international organ...
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Timothy A. McKay

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics, Astronomy, and Education; Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Professor of Education in the School of Education
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Tim McKay is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics, Astronomy, and Education; Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; and Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of ...
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Nigel P. Melville

Associate Professor of Technology and Operations, Ross School of Business
Nigel Patrick Melville is an American sociotechnical scientist, associate professor of information systems at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and Design Science Program Director. His primary areas of study are digital transforma...
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Jodyn Platt

Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences and Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy
Jodyn Platt, Ph.D., MPH is an Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences trained in medical sociology and health policy. She is widely published in trust in informatics and information systems. Her research focuses on and addresses ethical and p...
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Mike Shriberg

Water Center Director, Clinical Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability and Intermittent Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mike Shriberg's work focuses on Great Lakes water policy and institutions, local and state energy policy, campus sustainability/carbon neutrality and sustainability leadership. Prior to coming to SEAS, he was the Great Lakes regional executive direct...
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Sita Syal

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Sita M. Syal is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and directs EMBERlab at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on studying human influence and embedding equity in sustainable energy and transportation systems. She uses ...
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Misha Teplitskiy

Assistant Professor, School of Information
Misha Teplitskiy is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. He studies how social and institutional factors affect scientific discovery. He is especially interested in how scientific work is valued, through metric...
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Parth Vaishnav

Assistant Professor of Sustainable Systems, School for Environment and Sustainability
Parth Vaishnav is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability. His research aims to understand how technology can help solve social problems. Much of his work focuses on the ...
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Aditi Verma

Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Aditi Verma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan. Aditi is broadly interested in how energy technologies specifically and complex systems broadly—and their institut...
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Salomé Viljoen

Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Salomé is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She is interested in how information law structures inequality and how alternative legal arrangements might address that inequality. Salomé’s current work is on the pol...
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Julie Berson Grand

Education Manager
Julie Berson Grand is the Education Manager for the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program. In this position, Julie provides management and oversight of STPP’s existing educational programs and oversees the development of new education...
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Kristin Burgard

Partnerships Coordinator
Kristin Burgard is the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Partnerships Coordinator. Before joining the STPP team, she held positions at the University of Michigan as the Outreach and Partnership Manager at the Michigan Institute for Data S...
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Mandy Gagel

Project Manager for the Michigan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program
Mandy Gagel is the Project Manager for the Michigan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program. In this position, Mandy manages the development of a fellowship program that trains PhD-level scientists and engineers in the Michigan state policy ...
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In the Media

Green: Data centers and AI are hot topics in midterm elections

Oct 5, 2026 Fox 32 Chicago
DATA CENTERS AND AI HAVE BECOME INCREDIBLY HOT BUTTON ISSUES THIS ELECTION SEASON. AND IT REALLY HAS BEEN GROWING FOR A YEAR. COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE ORGANIZING AND FRUSTRATED ABOUT DATA CENTERS. THEY ARE ORGANIZING AND BLOCKING DATA CENTE...
Green: Data centers and AI are hot topics in midterm elections
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Parthasarathy urges AI regulation

Sep 26, 2026
With recent revelations that OpenAI's agents hacked an Australian government health data website and attempted to break into three other targets, and other recent instances of unanticipated acts by AI agents, University of Michigan experts provide in...
Parthasarathy: Restoring trust in science requires public accountability, not greater industry control
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Parthasarathy among newest cohort of Michigan Society of Fellows

Sep 24, 2026
The Michigan Society of Fellows is welcoming its newest cohort of senior fellows. Among them is Ford School professor Shobita Parthasarathy. Drawing together fellows from across all scholarly and artistic fields, the society welcomes six postdoctoral...
Parthasarathy: Restoring trust in science requires public accountability, not greater industry control
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Two U-M students awarded social science research fellowships

Sep 3, 2026
This year, two of the three graduate research fellowships awarded by the Social Science Research Council hailed from the University of Michigan. Margarita Maria Rodriguez Morales (PhD candidate in public policy and sociology) received the Charles E. ...
Two U-M students awarded social science research fellowships
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Parthasarathy comments on new White House science report

Jul 24, 2026
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, published a new report, "Science: A New Golden Age," calling for billions of dollars to be shifted from academic research to tech and artificial intelligence companies. In comments to STATNews,...
Shobita Parthasarathy named president-elect of Society for Social Studies of Science