Stanford University
Showing 11-20 of 136 Results
-
Lapo Santarlasci
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioI am a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) institute, working on the AI Index team. With a background in Finance and FinTech, I hold a PhD in Systems Science from IMT Lucca. My doctoral research focused on harnessing artificial intelligence - particularly cutting-edge NLP methods - to build tools for climate-risk assessment and to explore how AI diffuses through and shapes society. Outside of my research, I am a sailor and a volunteer Red Cross ambulance operator.
-
Aliya Saperstein
Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology
BioProfessor Saperstein received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Washington and her Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the University of California-Berkeley. In 2016, she received the Early Achievement Award from the Population Association of America. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and Sciences Po (Paris).
Her research focuses on the social processes through which people come to perceive, name, and deploy seemingly immutable categorical differences —such as race and sex—and their consequences for explaining, and reinforcing, social inequality. Her current research projects explore several strands of this subject, including:
1) The implications of methodological decisions, especially the measurement of race/ethnicity and sex/gender in surveys, for studies of stratification and health disparities.
2) The relationship between individual-level category fluidity or ambiguity and the maintenance of group boundaries, racial stereotypes, and hierarchies.
This research has been published for social science audiences in the American Journal of Sociology, the Annual Review of Sociology, Demography, Ethnic & Racial Studies, and Gender & Society, among other venues, and for general science audiences in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS One. It also has been recognized with multiple article awards, and gained attention from national media outlets, including NPR and The Colbert Report.
