Jennifer Stark

Jennifer Stark

Bio:

Jennifer is a Research Scientist in the Computational Journalism Lab headed by Nicholas Diakopoulos at the University of Maryland, College Park, Merrill College of Journalism. Her work involves examining algorithmic accountability and transparency including the use of algorithms in news media, and how they are researched and reported; data visualization; and developing automation and other tools for the newsroom or the news-consumer. She earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Manchester, UK, her Master’s in Information Visualization from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and a Certificate in Data Science from General Assembly. Previously, Jennifer was a Neuroscience postdoctoral researcher at the NIH.