Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan
About
Oliver Haimson is an assistant professor at University of Michigan's School of Information. He is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a Rob Kling Memorial Fellowship, and a Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship. He earned his PhD in 2018 from the Informatics Department at the University of California, Irvine’s Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences.
Current Work:
Oliver Haimson conducts social computing research focused on how people present and disclose changing identities on social media during life transitions, with a primary research goal of impacting technological inclusion of marginalized users. One of his main research areas is transgender identity disclosure and presentation on social media.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Social computing, online identity, social media, gender, human-computer interaction (HCI)
