Madeleine Daepp
Senior Researcher
About
Dr. Madeleine I. G. Daepp studies the opportunities and challenges generative AI poses for global democracy. She is currently on civic leave from Microsoft Research to serve as Research Director at the Center for Democracy and Technology.
Past projects include driven work on AI-augmented surveys and emerging spatial inequalities in AI usage that featured in the Microsoft New Future of Work report. Previously, she led research on Project Eclipse, a deployment of 100+ low-cost air quality sensors in Chicago. That work was published in leading venues across public health, environmental science, and computer science, served as the foundation of a data science-driven reporting series by Muckrock, WBEZ Chicago, and the Chicago Sun-Times, and became a case study for the World Bank / USC Annenberg Summer Institute.
Madeleine holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.Sc. from the University of British Columbia – Vancouver, and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis.