I’ll join Princeton as an assistant professor in Spring 2025 — Let’s work together! If you…
In general, feel free to email me, and I will do my best to reply!
I am hands-on. I try to explicitly set goals and rituals, but adapt my involvement to feedback (implicit and requested) and the current challenges we are facing in the research project. I expect that my students’ interests will shape my lab’s direction.
Examples of projects with master students I advised:
I like doing research that tackles real-world issues and provides actionable insights. Ideally, these insights translate into policy and design changes. This often requires…
I am currently interested in three broad, interconnected research topics.
Those are things I intend to pursue, but, as I said, I expect the interests of my students will shape the direction of my lab. I’m keen to explore new (related) directions!
2024 | Guosheng Feng | MSc | DataBricks |
2023 | Francesco Salvi | MSc | |
2023 | Paula Rescala | MSc | |
2023 | Veniamin Veselovsky | MSc | Princeton University (PhD) |
2022 | Maciej Styczen | MSc | Uber |
2022 | Mateo Echeverry Hoyos | BSc | Microsoft |
2022 | Tiancheng Hu | MSc | University of Oxford (PhD) |
2022 | Mihaela Berezantev | MSc | ELCA |
2022 | Jordi Cluet i Martinell | MSc | Swisscom |
2022 | Breno Matos | MSc | Data Commons Brazil |
2022 | Julia Majkowska | MSc | |
2022 | Marie Biolková | MSc | Akina |
2022 | Francis Murray | MSc | Rolex |
2021 | Léopaul Boesinger | MSc | Akina |
2021 | Deniz Ira | MSc | SwissBorg |
2021 | Marie Reignier-Tayar | MSc | Greenly |
2021 | Barbara Gomes Ribeiro | BSc | |
2020 | Robin Mamié | MSc | Supreme Court of Switzerland |
2020 | Stanislas Jouven | MSc | Firmenich |
2020 | Olivier Lam | MSc | Nestlé |
2019 | Thomas Spilsbury | MSc | University of Aaalto (PhD) |
Giuseppe Russo Latona, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Tim R. Davidson, Veniamin Veselovsky, and Robert West. “The AI Review Lottery: Widespread AI-Assisted Peer Reviews Boost Paper Scores and Acceptance Rates.” arXiv e-prints (2024): arXiv-2405. (link) ↩
Francesco Salvi, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Riccardo Gallotti, and Robert West. “On the conversational persuasiveness of large language models: A randomized controlled trial.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.14380 (2024). (link) ↩
Veniamin Veselovsky, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, and Robert West. “Artificial artificial artificial intelligence: Crowd workers widely use large language models for text production tasks.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.07899 (2023). (link) ↩
Homa Hosseinmardi, Amir Ghasemian, Miguel Rivera-Lanas, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West, and Duncan J. Watts. “Causally estimating the effect of YouTube’s recommender system using counterfactual bots.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, no. 8 (2024): e2313377121. (link) ↩
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Homa Hosseinmardi, Robert West, and Duncan J. Watts. “Deplatforming did not decrease Parler users’ activity on fringe social media.” PNAS nexus 2, no. 3 (2023): pgad035. (link) ↩
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