AJ Alvero

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I am an Assistant Research Professor with the Cornell University Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society with affiliations in the Departments of Information Science and Sociology. I am also a member of the Future of Learning Lab. My research is focused on questions about outward expression and personal essence: can we separate the art from the artist? The author from the text? The speaker from their speech? I use these questions as intellectual starting points to examine culture, language, and social processes of evaluation, particularly in high-stakes settings like college admissions and parole hearings, through the massive amounts of data generated therein. I leverage administrative, experimental, synthetic AI, and social media data to show how individual and shared identity shape human expression to better understand how demography and culture intersect to create the information we use to build and fuel the technology that sorts, stratifies, and organizes social life. This work has also increasingly drawn me toward examinations of the tools, methods, and frameworks used by researchers in these settings.

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