Nicholas Proferes is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University’s School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky’s School of Information Science, was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Ethics and Values in Design Lab at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies. His research interests include users’ understandings and beliefs about socio-technical systems such as social media and AI, societal discourse about technology, and scientific research ethics. As part of this research agenda, he has studied how scientists are using data from Reddit as part of the production of new knowledge; how tech leaders such as Mark Zuckerberg use strategic language choices to position their technologies in society; and how a federally funded technology development community navigated policy and ethics issues as part of their work on a new Internet architecture.