Marianne is an Information Science PhD student at Cornell University. She is interested in news metrics and engagement, particularly in the context of local news ecosystems. She is a part of the Cornell Social Technologies Lab and am advised by Mor Naaman. Her work broadly fits in the realm of computational social science and human-computer interaction.

In the past, Marianne worked on Human-Computer Interaction projects in Systems and Crowdsourcing with Jeff Huang at Brown University HCI Lab and John Froehlich at the University of Washington. She also spent a year building robots for children with Ian Gonsher at the Humanity-Centered Research Initiative.

Previously, she was a Product Manager at Microsoft, and had a brief stint as a Master’s student at the University of Washington. Marianne graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and Non-Fiction from Brown University in ’17.