Main Focus
- Influence Operations and Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior
- Open-Source Intelligence and Platform Transparency
- Misinformation/Disinformation/Malinformation
- Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
- Crowdsourcing and Social Mobilization
- Game Theory and Incentive Architecture
Curriculum Vitae
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Research Assistant at the MIT Media Lab (with the Scalable Cooperation group)
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Research Engineer at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (with the Smart Tech for EVs and Automotive Systems Lab; the Social Computing and Artificial Intelligence Lab; and the Interactive Artificial Intelligence Lab)
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“Digital Sherlocks” OSINT investigator community member at the Digital Forensics Research Lab
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Master of Science (Media Arts and Sciences — Computational Social Science) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Master of Science (Informatics — Knowledge and Data Management) at the British University in Dubai (in association with the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh)
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Global Masters in Business Administration (Information Technology Management) at the S.P. Jain Centre of Management (with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research)
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Bachelor of Science (Computer Information Systems, minoring in Circuits and Systems) at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Selected Publications
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Awad, E., Dsouza, S. et al. (2020) Universals and variations in moral decisions made in 42 countries by 70,000. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Awad, E., Dsouza, S. et al. (2018) The Moral Machine experiment. Nature.
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Awad, E., Levine, S., Kleiman-Weiner, M., Dsouza, S. et al. (2019) Drivers are blamed more than their automated cars when both make mistakes. Nature Human Behaviour.
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Dsouza, S. et al. (2013) Reasoning about goal revelation in human negotiation. IEEE Intelligent Systems.
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Rahwan, I., Dsouza, S. et al. (2013) Global Manhunt Pushes the Limits of Social Mobilization. Computer.
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Rutherford, A., Cebrian, M., Dsouza, S. et al. (2013) Limits of Social Mobilization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Rutherford, A., Cebrian, M., Rahwan, I., Dsouza, S. et al. (2013) Targeted Social Mobilization in a Global Manhunt. PLoS ONE.
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Wilhelm, E., Siegel, J., Mayer, S., Sadamori, L., Dsouza, S. et al. (2015) Cloudthink: a scalable secure platform for mirroring transportation systems in the cloud. Transport.
➡ Finding and Losing The Plot: Qatar to Southport (2024-11-19 MPIB Berlin seminar)