Aaron Halfaker

À propos

Aaron Halfaker is a principal applied research scientist working in the Office of Applied Research in Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices organization. He is also a Senior Scientist at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Halfaker’s research explores the intersection of productive information work and the application of advanced technologies (AI) to support productivity.

In his systems building research, he’s worn many hats from full stack engineer, ethnographer, engineering manager, UX designer, community manager, and research scientist.  He’s most notable for building an open infrastructure for machine learning in Wikipedia called ORES. His research and systems engineering have been features in the tech media including Wired, MIT Tech Review, BBC Technology, The Register, and Netzpolitik among others.

Dr. Halfaker reviews and coordinates for top-tier journals in the social computing and human center-AI space including ACM CHI, ACM GROUP, ACM CSCW, Transactions on Social Computing, WWW, and JASIST.

See also, my CV.