, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in government in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频, has been named a CIFAR . CIFAR is a Canadian-based global research organization.
One of 19 early-career scholars from eight countries to receive the grant for 2021-2023, Zhang will investigate challenges governments face when addressing public perceptions of inequalities brought about by new technologies under CIFAR鈥檚 鈥淚nnovation, Equity & the Future of Prosperity鈥 research program.
鈥淓xperts and the public alike anticipate that new technologies could make society more unequal,鈥 Zhang said. 鈥淢y research focuses on how mass politics can make it hard for governments to address these inequalities, such as the political challenges of enacting policies to help workers harmed by workplace automation.鈥
Based in the Department of Government, 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频, Zhang (AI) through an empirical social science approach. She works closely with Sarah Kreps, the John L. Wetherill Professor of government, on technology policy.
In the past year, Zhang and Kreps related to contact tracing technology introduced in the COVID-19 pandemic. They found Americans to be deeply skeptical of contact tracing technology, but that support for digital contact tracing increased with stronger privacy protections. This research was used by a .
Zhang is also a member of , which Kreps launched in 2020. In fall 2021, she will start as an assistant professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program supports outstanding early-career researchers through mentorship, a global network, professional skills development and $100,000 (Canadian) in unrestricted research support for two years. Scholars in this year鈥檚 cohort will do natural and social sciences research in questions ranging from migration to planetary geothermal systems and from climate politics to human fungal infections.
Elizabeth Johnson, assistant professor of molecular nutrition in the Division of Nutritional 麻豆视频 in the College of Agriculture and Life 麻豆视频, is also among this year鈥檚 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars.
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