Manoel Horta Ribeiro (appointment starts 2025-01-16)

Short Bio

I'm an incoming Assistant Professor at Princeton University in the Department of Computer Science, affiliated with the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). I received my doctoral degree in Switzerland, at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s Data Science Lab, working with Bob West, and my MSc and BSc in Brazil, at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. During my doctorate, I worked closely with several companies, including Meta, Reddit, Prolific, and Microsoft.

I work at the intersection of computational social science, artificial intelligence, and social computing. I like doing research that tackles real-world issues and provides actionable insights. Ideally, these insights translate into policy and design changes. My work has also received extensive media coverage, helping shape the public debate around online platforms and generative AI.