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KRISTEN VACCARO

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO

I'm incredibly excited to announce the release of "Auditing AI," a book I wrote with ten amazing co-authors! It's available from the MIT Press as part of their Essential Knowledge Series and also as a free digital download!

BIO

My research focuses on how to design social computing systems (like news feed curation, content moderation and ad targeting) so they are trustworthy, understandable, and accountable to users. But have a number of fun side directions, including my early work on fashion!

I'm not currently recruiting PhD students, but students are always welcome to check out information about my lab and example job materials here!

CONTACT ME

kv @ ucsd.edu
CV
GitHub

NEWS
December 2025 Congratulations to Lu Sun on her new position at the Toyota Research Institute!
May 2024 Congratulations to Mary Anne Smart on her new position at Purdue University!
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