Research Statement - Gabriel Grill
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June 3, 2022
Gabriel Grill ggrill@umich.edu
ggrill.net
School of Information, University of Michigan
Research Statement
My research interests center around the critical study of algorithms/data, platforms/infrastructure, and
supply chains, and their co-production with culture and discourse. I mainly use qualitative methods informed
by sensibilities from feminist science and technology studies, infrastructure studies and my prior education in
computer science. I am affiliated with the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC), the
Infrastructure Lab and the Tech.Culture.Matters. research collective. I have memberships in 4s, EASST, SSN,
AoIR, SASE and ACM SIGCHI. I strive to also have social impact beyond academia: My work has been cited
in governmental policy documents of the European Parliament and in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It
has been referenced by NGOs such as Human Rights Watch and Coworker.org, and received media attention
in Austria, Australia, Germany, and the UK.
Education
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, US
Ph.D. Candidate in Information and Science, Technology & Society (STS) Since 2018
Advisors: Silvia Lindtner and Christian Sandvig
Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien) Vienna, AT
M.Sc. in Computational Intelligence 2022 (expected)
Student Exchange: University of Waterloo (CA),Télécom ParisTech (FR), EPFL (CH)
Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien) Vienna, AT
B.Sc. in Software & Information Engineering, with high distinction 2015
Additional Courses in Gender Studies, STS, Sociology and Cognitive Science
Experience
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, US
Research Assistant at School of Information Summer 2020/21
Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna, AT
Researcher at Institute of Technology Assessment Summer 2020
Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria Vienna, AT
Student reviewer at Management Center Innsbruck (MCI) April - June 2018
National Institute of Informatics Tokyo, JP
Research Intern at Knowledge Sharing Group February - May 2017
Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna, AT
Researcher at Austrian Center for Digital Humanities 2016 - 2018
Research Studios Austria Vienna, AT
Junior Researcher at Smart Agent Technologies September 2012 - Jannuary 2014
Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien) Vienna, AT
Research Intern at Institute of Computer Aided Automation Summer 2009/2010
Page 1 of 6Publications & Presentations
Peer-Reviewed Journal and Conference Articles
Im, J., Schoenebeck, S., Iriarte, M., Grill, G., Wilkinson, D., Batool, A., Alharbi, R., Funwie, A., Gankhuu, T.,
Gilbert, E., Naseem, M., “Women’s Perspectives on Harm and Justice after Online Harassment”, Proceedings of ACM
in Human Computer Interaction (PACM), 2022
Grill, G., Andalibi, N., “Attitudes and Folk Theories of Data Subjects on Transparency and Accuracy in Emotion
Recognition”, Proceedings of ACM in Human Computer Interaction (PACM), 2022
Grill, G., “Future protests made risky: Examining social media based civil unrest prediction research and
technology”, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2021
(equal co-authorship), Allhutter, D., Cech, F., Fischer, F., Grill, G., Mager, A., “Algorithmic profiling of job
seekers in Austria: how to make austerity politics effective”, Frontiers in Big Data: Critical Data and Algorithm
Studies, January 2020
Wagner, B., Lopez, P., Cech, F., Grill, G., Sekwenz, M., “Der AMS-Algorithmus. Transparenz, Verantwortung und
Diskriminierung im Kontext von digitalem staatlichem Handeln”, JURIDIKUM 2020 (Austrian law journal), Issue 2,
June 2020
Kleedorfer, F., Busch, C.M., Grill, G., Khosravipour, S., Salcher, F., Tus, A., Gstrein, E., “Web of Needs – A New
Paradigm for E–Commerce”, 15th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics, July 2013
Workshops and Extended Abstracts
Grill, G., “Researching online labor strike and protest prediction technologies”, AoIR Selected Papers of Internet
Research, October 2020
Grill, G., “Intervening in Computer Science education and research”, CHI 2020 Activism Workshop - Moving
Forward Together: Effective Activism for Change, Canceled due to COVID-19
Grill, G., “Towards a critical review of protest and strike prediction research”, 17th European Conference on
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Workshop: Materializing Activism, June 2019
Grill, G., Neidhardt, J., Werthner, H., “Network Analysis on the Austrian Media Corpus”, 3rd Vienna young
Scientists Symposium, June 2017
Presentations
Grill, G., “Making algorithms work: On the production of ignorance in the construction of accuracy measures in
machine learning”, 4s/ESOCITE Joint Meeting 2022, December 2022
Grill, G., “Unpacking risk in unrest risk assessment across global supply chains”, SASE 2022 - Panel “Digital
Technologies and Working Conditions in Global Value Chains”, July 2022
Grill, G., “’Constructing Certainty: The performativity of benchmarking and its hold on the future”, EASST 2022,
July 2022
Grill, G., “The politics of data in labor unrest risk assessment across global supply chains”, The 9th biennial
Surveillance & Society conference of the Surveillance Studies Network, June 2022
Grill, G., “Unpacking the construction of labor risk in supply chain management”, RAI 2022 (Anthropology, AI and
the Future of Human Society) - Panel “AI and the new politics of supply chains”, June 2022
Grill, G., “Disruptions as democratic participation: Problematizing technologies for predicting civil unrest”, Data
Justice Conference 2021, May 2021
Schoenebeck, S., Alharbi, R., Im, J., Iriarte, M., Batool, A., Grill, G., Wilkinson, D., Gilbert, E., Funwie, A.,
Naseem, M., “Repairing Online Harms: Assessing Punitive and Reparative Justice Approaches”, First Annual
Conference of The Platform Governance Research Network, March 2021
Allhutter, D., Mager, A., Cech, F., Fischer, F., Grill, G., “Algorithmic Welfare: BürgerInnen-Profiling im
Wohlfahrtsstaat”, Momentum Kongress: Republik, October 2020
Page 2 of 6Grill, G., Fischer, F., Allhutter, D., Mager, A., Cech, F., “Algorithmic profiling of job seekers in Austria: how to
make austerity politics effective”, Society for social studies of science - Annual Meeting 2020, August 2020
Allhutter, D., Mager, A., Cech, F., Fischer, F., Grill, G., “Algorithmic profiling of job seekers in Austria: how to
make austerity politics effective”, 4th European Technology Assessment Conference, November 2019
Grill, G., Sandvig, C., “The science of ”civil unrest prediction“ meets social media”, Society for social studies of
science - Annual Meeting 2019, September 2019
Reports
(equal authorship) Allhutter, D., Mager, A., Cech, F., Fischer, F., Grill, G., “Der AMS-Algorithmus: Eine
soziotechnische Analyse des Arbeitsmarkt-Assistenz-Systems (AMAS) (The AMS algorithm: A socio-technical
analysis of the labor market chances decision-support system)”, Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian
Academy of Sciences (AT), November 2020
Invited Talks
Grill, G., “TBA”, CADE speaker series of the Center for Applied Data Ethics at the University of San Francisco,
TBA
Grill, G., “Guest Lecture on Big Data”, Course: Critical Theory of Media and Informatics at TU Wien, Spring 2020
Summer/Winter Schools
Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute, Technology and Policy During Times of Crisis, Presented: “Algorithmic
Ignorance: On the construction of accuracy measures and their hold on the future”, University of Oxford (UK),
August 2022
DigiGov Virtual Winter School, Taming the iMonster: Regulating digital platforms, Presented: “Contested
Inferences on Social Media: The case of Emotion AI”, University of Vienna (AT), February 2022
Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar, Presented: “The science of ’civil unrest prediction’ meets social media”,
Queen’s University (CA), June 2019
Teaching
Lecturer
Seminar in Critical Algorithm Studies at TU Wien (AT) Spring 2016/17/18
Developed course and syllabus: https:// algorithmstudies.wordpress.com
Welcome.TU.Code at TU Wien (AT) Summer 2015
Lecture series for unaccompanied, minor refugees.
Graduate Student Instructor
SI 310 Information Environments and Work at University of Michigan (US) Fall 2022
SI 339 Web Design, Development, and Accessibility at University of Michigan (US) Winter 2022
SI 504 Servers, The Shell, and Git at University of Michigan (US) Fall 2021
SI 564 SQL & Databases at University of Michigan (US) Fall 2021
SIADS 503: Data Science Ethics at University of Michigan (US) Fall 2020
SIADS 501: Being a Data Scientist at University of Michigan (US) Fall 2020
SI 507: Programming II at University of Michigan (US) Winter 2020
SI 506: Programming I at University of Michigan (US) Fall 2019
Page 3 of 6Teaching Assistant
Interactions of Society and Technology at TU Wien (AT) Spring 2015/2016
Basics of Human Computer Interaction at TU Wien (AT) Spring 2015/2016
Algorithmics and Datastructures II at TU Wien (AT) Spring 2013
Algorithmics and Datastructures I at TU Wien (AT) Spring 2013
Scholarships and Awards
Open-Access Article of the week, The Syllabus September 2021
UMSI Travel Grant ($ 700 + $ 300) 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Rackham Conference Travel Grant ($ 1050) 2019, 2021
IG Wien Pioneer Scholarship, European Forum Alpbach 2016
Volunteer of Fall 2015, Federation of Students, University of Waterloo Fall 2015
Scholarship for Technology Symposium, European Forum Alpbach 2014
Windhag Scholarship (e 450) 2014
Siegfried Ludwig-Fonds Scholarship (e 200) 2014
Foundation Stipend (e 1800), TU Wien 2013, 2014
Excellence Scholarship of Informatics Faculty (e 1000), TU Wien 2012, 2013
4th, 9th place at Catalysts Coding Contest, Hagenberg (e 700) & Vienna (e 500) 2012
Newcomer Award, Finals at RoboCup Junior, Category: OnStage, Graz & Singapore 2009, 2010
Skills
Languages: English (fluent), German (fluent)
Social Science: Qualitative Methods, Interviews, Ethnography, Situational Analysis
Computer Science: ML, NLP, Parallel Computing, Compilers, Security, Databases, Functional Programming
Technologies: Python, Spark, Haskell, Scala, Java, C#, F#, C, C++
Mentions in Media and Policy Publications
Self-Authored Articles
Grill, G., Steiner, A., Dobusch, L., “Arbeitskämpfe auf Social Media: Zwischen Streikorganisation und
Streikvorhersage (Labor struggles on social media: Between strike organization and strike prediction)”,
Netzpolitik.ORG (DE), 2018, https://bit.ly/3wzGilO
(equal authorship) Burtscher, S., Fassl, M., Grill, G., “Wenn der Algortihmus zum Unterdrücker wird (When
algorithms discriminate)”, Progress (AT), 2018, https://bit.ly/3NgSH3Th
Cited in Media
“Targeted Safety Net Programs Fall Short on Rights Protection: IMF/World Bank”, Human Rights Watch (US),
2022, https://bit.ly/3OgrGxP
“Targeted Safety Net Programs Fall Short on Rights Protection: IMF/World Bank”, Mirage News (AU), 2022,
https://bit.ly/3JO2dZp
Skelton, S. K., “EU artificial intelligence regulation risks undermining social safety net”, ComputerWeekly (UK),
2021, https://bit.ly/3wtPmIN
“Artificial Intelligence Regulation Threatens Social Safety Net: EU”, Mirage News (AU), 2021,
https://bit.ly/3NkEQJJ
Jones, A., “The EU’s bid to regulate AI could endanger the social safety net”, IndustryEurope.COM (EU), 2021,
https://bit.ly/37QfhA1
Page 4 of 6Allhutter, D., Mager, A., “AMS-Algorithmus könnte zu struktureller und sozialer Ungleichheit beitragen (AMS
algorithm could contribute to structural and social inequalities)”, AK Oberösterreich/A&W Blog (Austrian chamber
of labour) (AT), 2020, https://bit.ly/3wymajZ
“AMS-Algorithmus fördert laut Studie soziale Ungleichheit (AMS algorithm strengthens social inequality according to
study)”, ORF (Austrian national public service broadcaster) (AT), 2020, https://bit.ly/3NjHv6E
“AMS-Algorithmus verstärkt Ungleichheit (AMS algorithm strengthens inequality)”, Ö1 (Austrian public radio)
(AT), 2020, https://bit.ly/3tJrUpj
Szigetvari, A., “AMS-Algorithmus: Forscher warnen vor Diskriminierung und bemängeln fehlende Transparenz (AMS
algorithm: Researchers warn about discrimination and critique missing transparency)”, Der Standard (Austrian
newspaper) (AT), 2020, https://bit.ly/3IuIXzm
Wimmer, B., “AMS-Algorithmus: ”Seit Corona ist Datenbasis wertlos“ (AMS algorithm: The database is worthless
since Corona)”, Futurezone (Austrian tech newspaper) (AT), 2020, https://bit.ly/3Jx6scm
Wimmer, B., “Der AMS-Algorithmus ist ein Paradebeispiel für Diskriminierung (The AMS algorithm is a prime
”
example for discrimination)”, Futurezone (Austrian tech newspaper) (AT), 2018, https://bit.ly/3iyt9kE
Mentions in Policy Documents
European Parliament, Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services, Dumbrava, C., “Key social media
risks to democracy : risks from surveillance, personalisation, disinformation, moderation and microtargeting”,
European Parliament (EU), 2022, https://bit.ly/3JUGrEh
Negrón, W., “Little tech is coming for workers: A Framework for Reclaiming and Building Worker Power”,
CoWorker.ORG (US), 2021, https://bit.ly/3wwxY68
“Q&A: How the EU’s Flawed Artificial Intelligence Regulation Endangers the Social Safety Net”, Human Rights
Watch (US), 2021, https://bit.ly/3LbOkFu
Binder, N. B., Spielkamp, M., et al., “Einsatz Künstlicher Intelligenz in der Verwaltung: rechtliche und ethische
Fragen (Using AI in administration: regulatory and ethical questions)”, Algorithm Watch and the University of Basel
for Chancellery - Kanton Zürich (CH), 2021, https://bit.ly/3iuA1j5
“Transparente Algorithmen - Wie lässt sich algorithmische Diskriminierung verhindern? (Transparent algorithms:
How to stop algorithmic discrimination)”, Technology monitoring report of the Austrian parliament (AT), 2021,
https://bit.ly/3NgtE0G
Kolleck, A., Orwat, C., “Mögliche Diskriminierung durch algorithmische Entscheidungssysteme und maschinelles
Lernen - ein Überblick (Potential discrimination through algorithmic decision making systems and machine learning -
an overview)”, Office of Technology Assessment at the German federal parliament (DE), 2020, https://bit.ly/3uouhNd
Schafer, et al., “AI4People’s 7 AI Global Frameworks: Legal Services Industry”, AI4People (EU), 2020,
https://bit.ly/3IBHBTi
Service and Extracurricular Activities
Reviewing
Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI)
Conference on Computer-supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Computer Supported Cooperative Work Journal (JCSCW)
Memberships and Professional Affiliations
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
Page 5 of 6Academic Service Activities
Moderator on Panel on Education at Surveillance & Society conference of the SSN June 2022
Student Volunteer at International Conference on Agile Software Development June 2013
University Service Activities
Elected member at Doctoral Executive Committee, University of Michigan 2022/23
PhD Peer Mentor at University of Michigan 2019/20
Co-organizer at Seminar on Gender and Technology, TU Wien 2013
Elected member at Student Council of Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien July 2013 - June 2015
Elected member at Various Committees of Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien July 2011 - 2017
Faculty council, curricula board, faculty road map 2016-18, and appointment committees for professors
Mentoring and Supervision
Matthew Bilik - Research Assistant, University of Michigan 2022
Public Speaking
Network Analysis on the Austrian Media Corpus at Vienna Long Night of Science (AT) April 2018
Algorithmic Fairness at Privacy Week 2017 (AT) October 2017
The politics of Algorithms at The Big Data Game, Steyr (AT) November 2016
Governing Algorithms made in Austria at Privacy Week 2016 (AT) October 2016
Additional Service Activities
Organizer at Model European Union Vienna 2018 2018
Co-organized simulation of EU parliament and council with about 116 international participants.
Member at Standing Committee at European Forum Alpbach Network 2017
Curation of program for more than 700 international scholarship holders at European Forum Alpbach.
Co-organizer at Vienna Code Poetry Slam 2015, 2016, 2017
Literature meets programming: http:// codepoetry.at
Co-organizer at Devfest Vienna 2013, 2014
DevFests are large-scale developer community events: http:// devfest.at
Organizer/Speaker of/at “HTL, what’s next?” May 2013
Talk series by alumni of HTL Wiener Neustadt about careers after graduation.
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