Madiha Zahrah Choksi
Madiha Zahrah Choksi

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

As of Fall 2025, I am on the job market for both academic and industry research positions!

I am a fifth year Ph.D. candidate 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 community governance.

I’m interested in understanding how online communities use technical and legal affordances to establish norms and 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

S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I O N S

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

  • Madiha Z. Choksi, Matt Franchi, and Helen Nissenbaum. “Contextual Rule-making at Scale:

    Tailoring Generative AI for Group Privacy and Governance.”

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

A W A R D S

  • 2024: Cornell Tech Dean’s Excellence Fellowship

  • 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