As a woman in tech and a mother, it means the world to me to pursue an entrepreneurial direction and become a role model for other women in my field as a startup founder. The Effective Altruism movement significantly influenced my decision to open a startup and commit a portion of my proceeds to the most effective charities. The gap between the haves and have-nots in this world is large and growing, and signing the Founder's Pledge is an easy yet meaningful way to commit to helping close that gap.
Prof. Shiri Dori-Hacohen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Connecticut, where she leads the Reducing Information Ecosystem Threats (RIET) Lab. She is also the Founder & Chair of the Board at AuCoDe. Prof. Dori-Hacohen’s research focuses on threats to the information ecosystem online and to healthy public discourse from an information retrieval lens, informed by insights from the social sciences. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Google, among others; she has served as PI or Co-PI on over $1.7M worth of federal funds from the NSF. Her career in both academia and industry spans Google, Facebook, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst among others. She received her M.Sc. and B.Sc. (cum laude) at the University of Haifa in Israel and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she researched computational models of controversy. Prof. Dori-Hacohen is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the 2011 Google Lime Scholarship, and first place at the 2016 UMass Amherst’s Innovation Challenge. She has taken an active leadership role in broadening participation in Computer Science on a local and global scale.
