Madiha Zahrah Choksi

M A D I H A Z A H R A H C H O K S I

I am a third year Ph.D. student in the department of Computing and Information Science at Cornell Tech in New York City. I am advised by Helen Nissenbaum and James Grimmelmann. I work on topics at the intersection of technology, privacy, and law, with a focus on information accountability. I’m specifically interested in understanding how online communities use technical and legal affordances to express and enact their values, with an emphasis on privacy and openness.

For some time, I was the Digital Learning Specialist at Columbia University. I completed a Master in Information from the University of Toronto in 2016, and a Master of Arts from Columbia University in 2018.

N E W S

  • April 2024: Papers accepted to FAccT 2024.

  • March, 2024: Paper accepted to CSCW 2024.

  • January 2024: Papers accepted to CHI 2024 and ICA 2024 + Communication and Technology Top Paper Award!

  • November 2024: “How Licenses Learn” accepted to the Lewis & Clark Law Review.

R E S E A R C H

W O R K I N G P R O J E C T S

  • Madiha Z. Choksi, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, Yan Shvartzshnaider, Min Cheong Kim. “Assessment Integrity Norms: Consumer and Student Privacy in Ed-Tech." (Under submission)

  • Madiha Z. Choksi, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, Yan Shvartzshnaider, Amna Ali. “Student Privacy Activism: Protesting Radical Digital Transformation via Ed-Tech.” (Under Submission)

A W A R D S

  • 2021: Economic Security Project: Anti-Monopoly Fund Grant

  • 2021: CIS Deans Excellence Hopper-Dean Fellowship, Cornell University.

  • 2020: Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining Grant, University of California Berkeley.

C O N T A C T

  • Google Scholar

  • mc2376 [at] cornell [dot] edu | m [dot] choksi [at] columbia [dot] edu