OPENINGS IN THE RESPONSIBLE COMPUTING GROUP
- Applications currently open (start date as soon as possible): Student or research assistant (HiWi) — you must be enrolled at a German university as a MSc/BSc student. The assistant will help with our open-source software release focusing on the measurement of fairness in compliance with data protection laws (Python, algorithmic fairness, multi-party computation). More details and how to apply: here.
- Internship candidates (for internships starting in Spring/Summer/Fall 2025): please apply to the internship program and mention my name in your application. I unfortunately don’t have the bandwidth to reply to individual email inquiries.
Responsible Computing Group at MPI-SP
I lead the Responsible Computing group at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP). Our research centers around developing, examining and computationally operationalizing principles of responsible computing, data protection & governance, and digital well-being. We study these themes in particular in the context of data-driven and AI-based systems, covering all their facets (data, algorithms, interfaces, user interactions). We eagerly collaborate across disciplinary boundaries, allowing us not only to make technical contributions in Computer Science, but also to lend our expertise to support research in other fields.
Our current research themes include:
- Data Protection & Governance, Privacy
- Technology Governance, Policy, Regulation
- Digital Well-Being
- Social Responsibility in Computing
Research in my group is currently funded by the Max Planck Society, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the European Union (Horizon Europe FINDHR).
Group Members
- Changyang He (postdoc)
- Lin Kyi (PhD student)
- Amruta Mahuli (PhD student)
- Marina Ceccon (visiting PhD student, University of Padua, 2024-2025)
- Parnian Jahangirirad (research assistant, 2024-2025)
- Magdalena Krysztoforska (visiting scholar, ICI Berlin, 2024-2025)
Alumni:
- Alessandro Fabris (postdoc, Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2025 -> Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, University of Trieste)
- Yu Yamashita (research intern, 2023-2024)
- Upamanyu Das (research assistant, 2023)
- Önder Askin (visiting PhD student, RUB, 2023)
- Kirandeep Kaur (research intern, 2023 -> PhD Student in Computer Science, University of Washington)
- Sushil Kumar (research assistant, 2022-2023)
- Niall Docherty (visiting scholar, 2022-2023)
- Tanusree Sharma (visiting PhD student, UIUC, 2022 -> Assistant Professor, Penn State)
- Alessandro Fabris (visiting PhD student, University of Padua, 2021-2022 -> postdoc, MPI-SP)
- Martin Pawelczyk (visiting PhD student, University of Tübingen, 2021-2022 -> postdoc, Harvard University)
- Aparna Balagopalan (visiting PhD student, University of Toronto / MIT, 2021)
- Nasim Sonboli (visiting PhD student, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2021 -> postdoc, Brown University)
- Athina Kyriakou (research intern, 2022 -> PhD student in Computer Science, University of Zurich)
- Nikhil Prakhash (research intern, 2022 -> PhD student in Computer Science, Northeastern University)
- Valentina Ferraioli (research intern, 2021-2022 -> PhD student in Learning Sciences, EPFL)
Before joining MPI-SP, I was extremely lucky to work with these amazing folks while at Microsoft Research:
- Divya Shanmugam (MIT), research internship, 2020
- Maria Antoniak (Cornell), research internship, 2020
- Ruohan Li (CMU), remote research project, 2020
- Jianxiang Li (CMU), remote research project, 2020
While at MPI-INF + MPI-SWS:
- Tom Sühr (TU Berlin), research internship, 2018-2019
- Jana Schmidt (Saarland University), BSc thesis, 2018
- Sedigheh Eslami (Saarland University) MSc thesis, 2016-2017