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Ravi Iyer
- Managing Director, Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making
- Managing Director, Psychology of Technology Institute
Ravi Iyer is a technologist and academic psychologist working to improve technology's impact on society. He is currently the Research Director for the USC Marshall School's Neely Center and he helps manage the Psychology of Technology Institute.
Previous to this role, he led data science, research, and product teams across Facebook toward improving the societal impact of social media. His work on improving social media's impact on society has been featured in numerous academic articles as well as in press outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Wired. He specifically advocates for design-based solutions that improve social value, while mitigating concerns about over-enforcement. He also was a cofounder and the initial Chief Data Scientist of Ranker.com.
He has a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Southern California. He has published dozens of scholarly articles that have collectively been cited over 10,000 times and written about in dozens of press articles. Most of his scholarly work concerns understanding human values and bridging societal divisions.
INSIGHT + ANALYSIS
INSIGHT + ANALYSIS
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Quoted: Ravi Iyer in The Timberjay
IYER, managing director, Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making, tells The Timberjay why user agency over social media privacy controls are important, as part of proposed legislation based on the center's Design Code recommendations.
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Quoted: Ravi Iyer on Al Jazeera
IYER, managing director of the Neely Center, posits with Al Jazeera that companies bear the responsibility of redesigning algorithms to eliminate polarizing content, especially in light of global elections taking place in 2024.
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NEWS + EVENTS
NEWS + EVENTS
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Neely Center Efforts Turn Design Codes into Policy
The Center’s upstream design solutions are propelling Minnesota legislation to improve social media platforms.
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Psychology of Technology Conference Asks Difficult Questions About AI
The Neely Center hosted a conference for experts, policymakers, and academics to discuss the implications of the new technology.
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Neely Center Design Code Leads Way On Social Media Reform
Developed in collaboration with an array of experts, newly released Neely Center Design Code for Social Media provides recommendations for improving the digital platforms impact on society.
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Neely Center Introduces First-of-its-Kind Social Media Index
By tracking usage and quality of experiences, the Social Media Index will allow the public, researchers, and policymakers to make meaningful comparisons across time, events, and platforms, for the first time.
