Seda Gürses is an Associate Professor in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management (TPM), and an affiliate at the COSIC Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven. Previously she received post-doctoral fellowships at COSIC, KU Leuven (BE), Center for Information Technology and Policy (CITP) at Princeton University (USA), at the Media, Culture and Communications Department at NYU Steinhardt and at the Information Law Institute at NYU Law School (USA). Her current research focuses on questions around how changes in the business of computing and the production of software has lead to our current day computational infrastructures (cloud computing and mobile devices as their accessories) concentrated in the hands of "big tech" companies. Further topics she is currently occupied with include privacy engineering, fairness/debiasing and quality requirements towards data pipelines. Read more about Seda on her personal profile

Donald is a PhD candidate at the TPM Multi Actor Systems Department. He works with Dr. Seda Gürses (daily supervisor) and Prof.dr. Michel van Eeten (promotor) on topics related to the programmable infrastructures agenda, particularly the interaction of agility and computational infrastructures and its consequences in production modes and organizational arrangements. He holds undergraduate degrees in economics and psychology, and a master’s degree in applied mathematics. Prior to TU Delft, he worked as an economics researcher at the Asian Development Bank, focusing on the macroeconomic measurement of global value chains and its implications to jobs and technology, among others.

Agathe Balayn is a postdoctoral researcher both in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at the Technology, Policy, and Management (TPM) faculty at TU Delft, and in the Software Technology Department of the Computer Science (EEMCS) faculty at TU Delft. Prior to that, she studied at the same university as well as at the ENSTA ParisTech Institute Polytechnique de Paris (France). Her research is focused on uncovering, understanding, and mitigating some of the harms that the deployment of machine learning (ML) systems into society can raise, using a mixed-method approach. She is particularly interested in critically studying the gap between ML research and ML practices, looking beyond the ML fairness framework to investigate, e.g., harms stemming from the understudied but complex production of ML models, and in developing solutions for this gap and harms, going from literature surveys and policies for ML technologies to supportive tools for ML practitioners.

Thijmen initially joined the team as Teaching Assistant for the course “Introduction to Cloud as Infrastructure: The effects of the new business of computing on practice” (TPM030A at TU Delft) and now takes on the role of Project Assistant. He currently follows the MSc-programme Complex Systems Engineering and Management and has a strong interest in simulation modelling for socio-technical systems and in legal, economic and ethical dimensions of digital technologies.

Corinne Cath is a postdoc at the Multi Actor Systems section of the Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management where she works with Dr. Seda Gürses. She is an anthropologist who studies the politics of internet infrastructure. Previously, Corinne was Vice President of Research at the Open Tech Fund, a US-based grantmaker focused on developing open-source technologies. She finished her PhD at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, in 2021, writing an ethnography of one of the oldest internet governance organizations: The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Her postdoc is part of the OCW-funded Gravitation Program Public Values in the Algorithmic Society (AlgoSoc). As part of Algosoc, she works with Dr. Gürses and Professor Linnet Taylor (University of Tilburg). Corinne works on questions of computational infrastructure (cloud computing and mobile devices) in the context of the administration of justice. Her current research focuses on how cloud computing is transforming the internet, the consequences of these transformations for public institutions—and the adequacy of existing technology policy efforts that touch on cloud computing.