The Oxford Internet Institute is a cross-disciplinary department, and our work overlaps with that of experts in many other University departments. Our faculty associates are academics involved in teaching and supervision at the OII.
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford
Professor Coleman’s research interests are in phonetics (especially acoustic phonetics), models of sound change, speech technology, laboratory phonology and computational linguistics.
Professor of Scientific Visualisation, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Professor Chen teaches the Foundations of Visualization paper to MSc Social Science of the Internet and MSc Social Data Science students.
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
Dr Kelly teaches the Digital Anthropology paper to MSc in Social Science of the Internet students.
Professor of Language Modelling, Oxford e-Research Centre, Dept. of Engineering Science., University of Oxford
Professor Pierrehumbert's work has been widely influential in speech technology, psycholinguistics, and theories of language form and meaning.
University of Oxford
Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Department of Sociology, University of Oxford
Dr Richards is a quantitative sociologist with interests in social change, status, social cohesion, attitudes, and health and well-being
Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
David Steinsalz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics. His research is centred around biological and demographic questions connected with ageing and mortality.
Professor of Sociology, City University of New York (CUNY)
Jessie Daniels, PhD is a Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York (CUNY). She is an internationally recognized expert on internet manifestations of racism.
Research Associate
In 2022 Jonathan Bright became the Head of AI for Public Services at the Turing Institute, having previously been a faculty member of the OII. A political scientist, he specialises in computational and ‘big data’ approaches to the social sciences.
Former Research Associate
Stefan's research is focused on applied machine learning in finance. He collaborates with the OII on research and financial news networks and teaches the Machine Learning and Applied Machine Learning papers to MSc Social Data Science students.
Associate Professor of Engineering Science, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Xiaowen Dong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science, where he is an academic member of both the Machine Learning Research Group and the Oxford-Man Institute.
Professor of Social Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
London School of Economics
Dr Wendy Willems is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
