Benjamin Laufer is a PhD student in the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Cornell Tech, where he is advised by Helen Nissenbaum and Jon Kleinberg, and affiliated with the AI, Policy and Practice Group and the Digital Life Initiative. He is interested in data-driven algorithmic systems and their implications for the public interest. His research uses tools and methods spanning statistics, game theory, network science, and ethics. Prior to joining Cornell, Ben worked as a data scientist at Lime, where he applied machine learning to urban mobility decisions. He graduated from Princeton Unviersity with a B.S.E. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering with minors in Urban Studies and Environmental Studies.
Ben's research is supported by a LinkedIn Fellowship. He has also spent time at Microsoft Research with the Fairness, Accountabiltiy, Transparency and Ethics Group. He was named a "rising star" by Stanford in Management Science and Engineering.
