Description: Personal Webpage for Sophie Spatharioti
I am a researcher and web developer with 8 years of experience developing applications and publishing research at top venues at the intersection of Human Computer Interaction, crowdsourcing, computational social science and games. I have led and collaborated with interdisciplinary teams, ranging from nonprofits, to academics and product groups. My Ph.D. work has been used by non-profits around the world.
Most recently, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research NYC in the Computational Social Science Group . I worked on the Perspectives Engine , which aims to generate perspectives for helping people understand unfamiliar numbers encountered in news and other sources. I also conducted research on the impact of Large Language models in decision making and consumer search. My work at Microsoft has been incorporated in multiple product deployments (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
I am also involved in Cartoscope , an open-source crowdsourcing image labeling platform, in collaboration with Northeastern University. Cartoscope has been used by non-profit organizations such as Healthy Gulf, for monitoring wetland loss in Louisiana, oil spills in the Niger Delta region, and damage assessment after events such as Hurricane Ida. My work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Google, and Northeastern University TIER 1 grants.