Co-Directors
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Fred Oswald, ProfessorDepartment of Psychological Sciences Fred Oswald is an industrial-organizational psychologist and current Chair of the Board on Human Systems Integration (BOHSI) at the National Academies, where they recently published a highly downloaded report, Human-AI Teaming: State of the Art and Research Needs (Mica Endsley, Chair). He is a current Member of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) which advises the President and the Secretary of Commerce on a wide range of topics relevant to AI and national prosperity. With consistent PI and co-PI funding from NSF, NIH, and other agencies, his core research addresses the role of AI and machine learning in work and workforce settings. |
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Elizabeth Roberto, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Sociology Elizabeth Roberto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the founding co-Director of the Center for Computational Insight on Inequality and Society at Rice University. Dr. Roberto has broad research interests in social and spatial inequality, a substantive focus on residential segregation, and methodological expertise in computational social science and quantitative methods. Her research uses innovative methods to examine the complex relationship between the social and built environment of cities. Dr. Roberto received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University. She was awarded a James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Studying Complex Systems, which supported her postdoctoral research at Princeton University. Her research has also been supported by the American Sociological Association and the National Academies. |
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Corey M. Abramson, Associate ProfessorDepartment of Sociology Corey M. Abramson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Rice University and a Co-Director of CIISR. His research examines how inequality, health, and culture converge to shape the course of our lives through ethnography, surveys, interviews, and computational analyses. He is the author of The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years (Harvard University Press), an award-winning study of stratification in later life, and co-editor of Beyond the Case (Oxford University Press, with Neil Gong), a volume on comparative methodology. Abramson’s NIH- and PCORI-funded collaborations integrate team-based field research with natural language processing, AI, and computational frameworks to scale insights using in-depth qualitative data– enhancing rigor and reproducibility in studies of cancer, chronic pain, aging, and dementia care. His scholarship contributes to scientific and policy debates worldwide, including recent presentations at the National Academies, advisory service to the European Research Council, and methodological work with research teams and organizations from hospitals and school districts, to scientific consortia. Abramson earned his Ph.D. in sociology at UC Berkeley and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health policy in UC San Francisco’s school of medicine. |