Katie Shilton
Professor
kshilton@umd.edu301-405-3777
Patuxent Building, Room 1109-F
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PaBmnk0AAAAJ&hl=en
Availability to Accept New PhD Students
This faculty member is currently accepting Ph.D. studentsBIO
Katie Shilton also leads the Ethics & Values in Design (EViD) Lab. Her research focuses on technology and data ethics. She is a co-PI of the NSF and NIST-funded TRAILS Institute focused on trustworthy AI, and a co-PI of UMD’s Values Centered AI Initiative. She was also recently the PI of the PERVADE project, a multi-campus collaboration focused on big data research ethics. Other projects include improving online content moderation with human-in-the-loop machine learning techniques and designing experiential data ethics education.
Associated Research Centers
Research & Focus Areas
- Data Privacy and Sociotechnical Cybersecurity
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Information Justice, Human Rights, and Technology Ethics
- Machine Learning, AI, Computational Linguistics, and Information Retrieval
Research Projects
- Collaborative Research: ER2: The development of research ethics governance projects in computer science
- Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society (TRAILS)
- SaTC: CORE: Medium: Learning Code(s): Community-Centered Design of Automated Content Moderation
- CAREER: Finding Levers for Privacy and Security by Design in Mobile Development
- CCE STEM: Finding Practices that Cultivate Ethical Computing in Mobile and Wearable Application Research & Development
- CCE STEM: Standard: Collaborative: The Development of Ethical Cultures in Computer Security Research
- Collaborative Research: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research (PERVADE)
- DASS: Learning Code(s): Community-Centered Design of Automated Content Moderation
- III:Small:Safely Searching Among Sensitive Content