Susan E. McGregor is an associate research scholar at
Columbia University's Data Science Institute, where she
co-chairs the Center for Data, Media & Society.
McGregor's research primarily centers on security and
privacy issues affecting journalists and media
organizations. Her current work includes an NSF-funded
project to provide readers with stronger guarantees
about digital media by incorporating cryptographic
signatures into digital publishing workflows. She
works with natural language processing experts to
develop novel classifiers for detecting abusive speech
on Twitter, and is researching effective models for
peer support with a focus on the media space. Her work
in these and related areas has received support from
the NSF, the Knight Foundation, Google, Columbia
University, among others.
As an educator, McGregor is committed to increasing
the reach of data science education to help ensure
that essential literacies about data-driven systems
are accessible to learners of every age and
background. Prior to her work at Columbia University,
McGregor was the senior programmer for the News
Graphics team at the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), a
front-end programmer at the photo wire service
MediaVast (acquired by Getty Images), and a reporter
for The New York Amsterdam News.