Speaker

Michael Corey

Michael Corey

Teacher and Lapsed Sociologist

Michael is a technologist who seeks data and product solutions to make the internet better for users. He's currently a visiting faculty member in Computer Science at Bennington College and is a data scientist on the Matcha product at 0x.

As a teacher, Corey focuses on interweaving the technical skills required to build computation with the vast theoretical, organizational, and historical literature around how technology does (and doesn’t) provide value to its creators and users. He favors the fundamental over the faddish, especially as a data scientist. His students will hopefully go on to build technology with the tools and perspective to build software for humans.

Michael previously co-founded the Demography and Survey Science team at Facebook and also worked across ads, responsible AI, and diversity hiring teams there. He holds patents regarding using blockchain to ensure user privacy and automating advertising rating in advertising. While working in AI, he focused on model understandability, fairness, and automation, especially around measuring discrimination in complex ads delivery systems.

Michael Corey

Teacher and Lapsed Sociologist