About

My work sits at the intersection of the social scientific inquiry of language, technology, culture, evaluation, and identity. My early research has focused on college admissions.

Bio written in third person:

AJ Alvero is a computational social scientist at the Cornell University Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society with departmental affiliations in Sociology, Information Science, and Computer Science. Most of his research examines moments of high stakes evaluation, specifically college admissions and parole hearings. In doing so, he addresses questions and topics related to the sociological inquiry of artificial intelligence, culture, language, education, race and ethnicity, and organizational decision making. This work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Science Advances, Poetics, The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning, Sociological Methods & Research, Journal of Big Data, and other venues. AJ earned his PhD at Stanford University along with an MS in statistics. Prior to entering academia, AJ was a high school English teacher in Miami, FL.”