TPRC 2025: The 53nd Research Conference on Communications, Information and Inter: Directory

James Alleman

James Alleman is Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado – Boulder and a Senior Fellow and Director of Research at Columbia Institute of Tele-Information (CITI), Columbia Business School, Columbia University.
Dr. Alleman was Visiting Professor CIMBA Italy, Paderno del Grappa, Italy in the Winter of 2017, Visiting Senior Scholar at IDATE in Montpellier, France in the fall of 2005 and continues his involvement in IDATE’s scholarly activities. In 2014 he was awarded a Senior Fellowship at Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacional (Barcelona, Spain) to research regulation of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Latin America. During calendar years 2001 and 2002, he was a Visiting Professor in the Economics and Finance Division at Columbia Business School, Columbia University. Dr. Alleman... Read more

Company University of Colorado-Boulder
Position Professor Emeritus
Location Boulder, CO

Akintunde Babatunde

Company University of Iowa
Position Doctoral Researcher

Pierrette Dagg

Pierrette Renée Dagg is the director of Research for Merit Network at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She oversees Technology Impact Research and R&D. The aim of her work is to bridge the gap between academic scholarship and practical application to positively impact technology and information equity. Pierrette is also a Digital Opportunities Fund Fellow at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society where she is publishing case studies on broadband community champions. She also serves as a Research Associate at the Quello Center for Media and Information Policy at Michigan... Read more

Company Merit Network/University of Michigan
Position Director of Research
Location Ann Arbor, MI

Rob Frieden

Rob Frieden serves as an educator, researcher, grant seeker and consultant in the law, regulation, and business of broadband networks, cybersecurity, electronic commerce, intellectual property, the Internet of Things, privacy, regulatory reform, satellites, and spectrum management.
He currently serves as a 2022 Wilson Center Fellow and holds the rank of Emeritus Professor of Telecommunications and Law at Penn State University. Professor Frieden has published 4 books, written over 100 articles in law and telecommunications policy journals and frequently provides insights on current topics in t... Read more

Company Penn State University
Position Professor
Location University Park, PA

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Berna Akcali Gur

Internet, Telecommunications Infrastructure, Trade and Outer Space

Company UNU-CRIS
Position Associate Research Fellow
Location London

Erika Heeren-Moon

I am currently a Ph.D./JD student at Virginia Tech/Rutgers University and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative. My research focus is telecommunications law and policy related to equitable broadband access and funding initiatives.

Company Virginia Tech
Position Ph.D. Student, School of Public & International Affairs
Location Washington, DC

Sascha Meinrath

Sascha Meinrath, has been described as a "community Internet pioneer" and an "entrepreneurial visionary." In 2008, Sascha founded the Open Technology Institute (OTI), and he has been an unapologetic advocate for consumers and a counterweight to the major telecom and wireless industry lobbies for over half-a-decade in Washington, DC. Sascha directs X-Lab, which he founded in 2014

Company Pennsylvania State University
Position X-Lab

Colin Rhinesmith

Colin Rhinesmith (he/him) is the Founder and Director of the Digital Equity Research Center at the Metropolitan New York Library Council, where he and his team co-lead community-engaged research projects to better understand and co-design meaningful responses to local digital equity challenges.

Rhinesmith is also a Research Fellow with the Quello Center for Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University, Adjunct Lecturer with the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Co-Editor-In-Chief of The Journal of Community Informatics.

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Company Digital Equity Research Center
Position Director
Location New York City

Martin Riedl

Martin J. Riedl is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research investigates platform governance and content moderation, digital journalism, and the spread of false and misleading information on social media. Riedl’s recent work has focused on platform governance and violence, the politics of trust and safety, encrypted messaging and chat applications, and political influencers on social media.

Company The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Location Knoxville, TN

Marc Rysman

Company Boston University

Gwen Shaffer

Company California State University Long Beach

Allison Sinnott

Company Long Island University Post
Position Undergraduate

Jack Waier

Hi I'm Jack, and I recently graduated from Michigan State University with an M.A. in Media and Information. I also completed my undergraduate degree at Michigan State University, graduating with high honors with a B.S. in Human Biology. Currently, I am assisting with research in various topics pertaining to media psychology at Michigan State. My thesis was focused on research that examined the connection between narrative selection and cognitive dissonance. The aim of this research was to reveal how the narratives we opt for might address cognitive inconsistencies to offer insights into the cognitive... Read more

Company Quello Center/Michigan State University
Position Research Assistant
Location East Lansing, MI

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