permalinks: MDI Featured Research

6 Articles

Featured Research
News

Humans In the Loop: Building Trust in Elections With Bipartisan Messaging

By: Thessalia Merivaki, Ph.D., Associate Teaching Professor & Associate Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy & the Massive Data Institute While many state…

December 4, 2025

Featured Research
News
PETs

How State Education Systems Are Charting a New Data Privacy Frontier

By: Stephanie Straus, Policy Fellow, Massive Data Institute In recent years, state education departments have expanded their existing databases into integrated, multi-agency…

September 23, 2025

Featured Research
News

Connecting Science to Policy – Three Years of MDI’s Research Experience for Undergraduates Program

By: Rebecca Vanarsdall, MDI Research Manager Our MDI Summer Research Showcase on August 1st, marked the end of the final year of the Department of Computer Science and MDI’s…

September 3, 2025

Featured Research
News

Expanding Impact: How Safe Babies Safe Moms Data is Powering Research Across Health Systems

By: Aditi Bhardwaj is a Data Scientist working with the Health Care Financing Initiative and the Massive Data Institute, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University.…

July 28, 2025

Featured Research
News

Labeling Election-Related Communications on Social Media: Navigating “easy” and “hard” Labels

By: Thessalia Merivaki, Ph.D., Associate Teaching and Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, and Jorge Bris Moreno ’25, MDI Scholar Researchers analyzing social…

May 5, 2025

Featured Research
News

Who Decides What You See? How Middleware Can Reshape Social Media

By: Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy For as long social media has existed, there have been debates about content moderation and…

April 10, 2025