P M Krafft

MS student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Postdoc, University of California Berkeley

Lecturer (UK Equiv. US Asst. Prof), Sociology, University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh

  • Joined January 2026

Names

P M Krafft (Preferred)
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Peter Martin Krafft
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Peter Krafft
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Peaks M Krafft
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Peaks Krafft
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Peter M Krafft
,
P. M. Krafft
,
Peter M. Krafft
,
Peaks M. Krafft

Emails

****@mit.edu (Confirmed)
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****@csail.mit.edu (Confirmed)
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****@ed.ac.uk (Confirmed)
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****@oii.ox.ac.uk

Career & Education History

MS student
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (umass.edu)
Present
 
Postdoc
University of California Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
Present
 
Lecturer (UK Equiv. US Asst. Prof)
Sociology, University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh (ed.ac.uk)
2024Present
 
Senior Lecturer (UK Equiv. US Asst. Prof)
Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts, London (arts.ac.uk)
20212024
 
Senior Research Fellow (UK Equiv. US Asst. Prof)
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (ox.ac.uk)
20192020
 
Postdoc
Information School, University of Washington (uw.edu)
20182019
 
Postdoc
Psychology, University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
20172019
 
PhD student
Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
20122017
 
MS student
Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (umass.edu)
20102012
 
Undergrad student
Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (umass.edu)
20072010
 

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor
20182019
 
Postdoc Advisor
20172019
 
PhD Advisor
20122017
 
PhD Advisor
20122017
 

Expertise

gemmology, gemology, gemstones, jewellery
2021Present
 
History of Computing, History of Cybernetics, History of AI
2020Present
 
Technology and power, tech justice, social justice
2019Present
 
philosophy of AI, philosophy of machine learning, epistemology, metaphysics
2017Present
 
critical data studies, critical platform studies, critical AI studies
2017Present
 
science and technology studies, sociology of knowledge, sociology of technology
2017Present
 
Bayesian cognitive models, social cognition, race and decolonial thought
2017Present
 
Political economy, historical materialism, Marxism
2017Present
 
Levels of analysis, Philosophy of social science, analytical sociology
2012Present
 
Sociology of belief, cognition, cognitive science, social cognition
2012Present
 
Ethics of AI, Participatory action research, Participatory design
20192023
 
Design of digital institutions, human-computer interaction, computer-supported collaborative work
20132021
 
Rumours, Disinformation, social networks, social learning
20162019
 
Theory of collective intelligence, computational models, collective behaviour
20122017
 
Collective behaviour, Distributed cognition, Social sampling
20122017
 
Web-based behavioural laboratory experiments, Web-based field experiments, Networked behavioural experiments
20122017
 
topic models, social network analysis, computational social science
20102012