Shiri Dori-Hacohenمشاهده پروفایل
استادیار
Shiri Dori-Hacohen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Connecticut, directing the Reducing Information Ecosystem Threats (RIET) Lab. Her work focuses on AI safety, sociotechnical AI alignment, and mitigating information ecosystem threats through transdisciplinary collaboration. She has secured $7.7M in NSF funding and received awards including the 2023 D-30 Disability Impact List for groundbreaking fairness research. Education: B.Sc. and M.Sc. (cum laude) in Computer Science, University of Haifa, Israel M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst Research Interests: Combating misinformation, controversy detection, AI ethics, and health equity. Her work bridges computer science with medicine, public health, and social sciences. Current projects address disinformation, botnet detection, and fairness in medical AI systems. Awards and Recognition: 2023 D-30 Disability Impact List 2022 AI Risk Analysis Award (NeurIPS) 2016 UMass Amherst Innovation Challenge First Place 2011 Google Lime Scholarship Leadership & Advocacy: Co-founder of Graduate Women in STEM @ UMass, Women in Information Retrieval, and Disabled In Computing. Active media commentator featured in Reuters, The Guardian, Forbes, and Galei Tzahal radio. Labs & Initiatives: PI of RIET Lab which develops computational tools to detect threats in information ecosystems. Research incorporates petabyte-scale social network data and graph-theoretic approaches. Current focus on medical fairness and misinformation mitigation in marginalized communities.









