Aviv Ovadya

"Aviv Ovadya is Chief Technologist at the Center for Social Media Responsibility (CSMR) at the University of Michigan School of Information, where he works to ensure our online information ecosystem has a positive impact on society. This involves identifying, measuring, and mitigating indirect harms of social media and related technologies that affect public discourse (such as video and search).

At MIT Aviv earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and explored origami transformer algorithms for his masters thesis. His work in software engineering, product design, and research spanned has organizations including Amazon, the MIT Media Lab, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Morgan Stanley, Quora, Google, and many startups. In his efforts to improve our information ecosystem, Aviv also helped co-instigate Credibility Coalition standards work, consults for a prominent fact checking organization, and was a Knight News Innovation Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia. His work has been reported on by publishers including the Washington Post, the LA Times, CJR, BuzzFeed, and The Hill. Aviv is also a proud co-author of the broccoli emoji."

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