Biography
Luke Stark is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research Montreal and an Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He completed his PhD in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University in 2016 under the supervision of Helen Nissenbaum. Luke’s work focuses on the historical and contemporary intersections of behavioral science, AI, and computing, and how new technologies affect human privacy, emotional expression, and digital labor. His scholarship highlights the asymmetries of power, access and justice that are emerging as these systems are deployed in the world, and the social and political challenges that technologists, policymakers, and the wider public will face as a result. Luke’s research has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, New Scientist, and on Canada’s CBC Radio.