https://juniperlovato.com/about daily 0.75 2026-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/1395172651071-RJR4MQQICYJ6PSR5W5TS/11444693813_c5236930ee_b.jpg ABOUT Photo of Juniper Lovato by InsightFoto inc. https://juniperlovato.com/home-1 daily 1.0 2026-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/deb687e4-184f-414e-9020-7eda50a89776/10177991_10201703424091200_3750952413800881734_n_10201703424091200.jpeg Home - Juniper Lovato The brewer of brainstorms. Data ethics and privacy nerd by night, complexity science evangelist by day. Be kind, play nice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/da692e66-c93b-4894-8a1f-b1aea6a3a07e/Roboctopus_2024+copy.png Home - About About: Juniper Lovato is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vermont and a member of the Vermont Complex Systems Institute, where she leads the Computational Ethics Lab. She is also an External Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. Her research spans the ethics and governance of data, AI, and technology, with a focus on fairness, accountability, transparency, and the science of stories. Drawing on methods from computational social science, natural language processing, network science, and complex systems, she studies how sociotechnical systems, composed of humans and technologies, mutually shape one another, influencing human values, institutions, and narratives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/00f94a08-df0f-4ce1-9469-92ed0648fca1/juniper_lovato.jpg Home ABOUT ME https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/1589403937773-VZ0YHBE3RZIA4UPSOW6D/30986705154_431a6afc43_k.jpg Home COMPUTATIONAL ETHICS LAB https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/1520199437110-W79VA2DS42OXZK8BPASL/image-asset.jpeg Home FOLLOW https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/1520197920741-EFDMGILL9GYB534115ZX/15270017955_666c6ac9a4_o.jpg Home COMPLEX SYSTEMS & DATA SCIENCE PROGRAMS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/1520197844300-D08O8RCXAWSIRJU032VW/23392354729_bd7f0a7fba_k.jpg Home CONSULTING SERVICES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/1520197899987-HLBN3A0Q7WD0GA3WE8F7/23132187864_0acdaa01a8_k.jpg Home MEDIUM BLOG https://juniperlovato.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/1520198148852-OIDZFWT8JK93UJNS5OUM/23741374185_b96061452d_k.jpg CONTACT INQUIRIES https://juniperlovato.com/programs daily 0.75 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/ba4fabe0-d44d-49bd-9c35-ddb7c195023d/IMG_20190529_192657.jpeg PROGRAMS - VERMONT COMLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE PROGRAMS UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/1556483154721-P3WJDZO4104BHPHAZ5BH/Picture1.png PROGRAMS - SANTA FE INSTITUTE PROGRAMS Me at the Complex Systems Summer School, Photo by InsightFoto inc. https://juniperlovato.com/research daily 0.75 2026-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/1589403396627-S0ARXOHGD6U7AAA34MKE/30986705154_431a6afc43_k.jpg RESEARCH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/92cc789b-0379-4e2c-9adb-312f599da519/Logo_CompEthicsLab_black2.png RESEARCH - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/a89841d6-31d8-4f9c-b68b-a2cd494d9693/Paper+Full-Text RESEARCH - Self-Reinforcing Cascades A Spreading Model for Beliefs or Products of Varying Intensity or Quality. Hébert-Dufresne, L., Lovato, J., Burgio, G., Gleeson, J. P., Redner, S., & Krapivsky, P. L. (2024). Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 087401 – Published 21 August, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/5mph-sws5 [ArXiv Link][Paper link][Interactive story] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/766f2da9-82cb-42bd-ba45-c5ca71592671/aiartgraphic_peoplewheel.jpg RESEARCH - Foregrounding Artist Opinions A Survey Study on Transparency, Ownership, and Fairness in AI Generative Art. Authors: Lovato, J., Zimmerman, J., Smith, I., Dodds, P., Karson, J. Proceedings of the 2024 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. 2024. (in press) [arXiv Link][Paper Link] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/6656431e-878d-4fe1-bf18-1a4ee7267d4b/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+6.19.24%E2%80%AFPM.png RESEARCH - Ethical Frameworks for Conducting Social Challenge Studies Sen, P., Hébert-Dufresne, L., Bose, P., & Lovato, J. (2025). Ethical Frameworks for Conducting Social Challenge Studies. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.10578. [ArXiv Link] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/ff2bed94-17fe-4d77-b779-f561a64ddcb3/44260_2025_41_Fig3_HTML.webp RESEARCH - Governance as a complex, networked, democratic, satisfiability problem Hébert-Dufresne, L., Landry, N.W., Lovato, J., St-Onge, J., Young, J.G., Couture-Ménard, M.È., Bernatchez, S., Choquette, C. and Cohen, A.A. (2025). Governance as a complex, networked, democratic, satisfiability problem. npj Complexity, 2(1), 14. [Paper Link] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/b133761b-ed53-4a64-b34d-6ce884aa56cc/urn_cambridge.org_id_binary_20241122142041102-0248_S205012422400016X_S205012422400016X_tab3.png RESEARCH - Recommendations for sharing network data and materials Neal, Z.P., Almquist, Z.W., Bagrow, J., Clauset, A., Diesner, J., Lazega, E., Lovato, J., Moody, J., Peixoto, T.P., Steinert-Threlkeld, Z. and Teixeira, A.S., (2024). Recommendations for sharing network data and materials. Network Science, 12(4), 404-417. [Link to Paper] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/8234d0ff-1623-4251-9e06-2b12bc77697a/sensors-24-03214-g006.png RESEARCH - Using wearable digital devices to screen children for mental health conditions: ethical promises and challenges. O’Leary, A., Lahey, T., Lovato, J., Loftness, B., Douglas, A., Skelton, J., Cohen, J.G., Copeland, W.E., McGinnis, R.S. and McGinnis, E.W., (2024). Using wearable digital devices to screen children for mental health conditions: ethical promises and challenges. Sensors, 24(10), 3214. [Link to Paper] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/24ba158b-7cb1-4248-9000-a7c3d931044b/Screen_Shot_2022-08-12_at_6.23.05_PM.png RESEARCH - Diverse Misinformation Impacts of Human Biases on Detection of Deepfakes on Networks. Juniper Lovato, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Jonathan St-Onge, Randall Harpa, Gabriela Salazar Lopez, Sean P. Rogers, Ijaz Ul Haq, and Jeremiah Onaolapo. 2024. npj Complexity [arXiv Link]. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/6c90c726-b9c5-4c3b-9c07-a625f52f8acd/1997.jpg RESEARCH - More Data Types More Problems A Temporal Analysis of Complexity, Stability, and Sensitivity in Privacy Policies. Authors: Juniper Lovato, Philip Mueller, Parisa Suchdev, Peter S. Dodds. IIn 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 23), June 2023, Chicago, USA. [Link] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/967a99ce-9e97-41b2-932a-6c321add93c5/Screen+Shot+2023-05-02+at+9.11.44+AM.png RESEARCH - PII Lexicon 287 words that are associated with personally identifiable information (PII) as defined by legislative definitions sections from eight U.S. state-level laws concerning consumer data privacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/634b425e-debb-4d22-9661-48342d1eff53/Screen+Shot+2022-05-16+at+1.44.38+PM.jpg RESEARCH - Distributed Consent Limits of Individual Consent and Models of Distributed Consent in Online Social Networks. Authors: Juniper Lovato, Antoine Allard, Randall Harp, Jeremiah Onaolapo, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne. 2022. In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’22), June 21–24, 2022, Seoul, Republic of Korea. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19 pages https://doi.org/10.1145/3531146.3534640. [Link] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/bcc794ea-884e-4227-b73d-656ece356806/Screenshot+2025-07-03+at+2.35.14%E2%80%AFPM.png RESEARCH - The Course Catalogs Project We are a multidisciplinary team building an open, structured research resource from historic U.S. university course catalogs, a rich source of institutional memory. By extracting and analyzing data from these catalogs at scale, we aim to investigate the complex evolving landscape of higher education and make it accessible for researchers, administrators, and the public. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/81968f91-e5c8-44f7-8fd7-2c7e8aeabfb3/stacks-image-0ac2792-1200x908.png RESEARCH - Lived Experiences measured using Rings (LEMURS) LEMURS is a multi-year study to understand lifestyle practices that may impact health and wellness using the Oura Ring to collect physiological data. LEMURS aims to find a link between a person’s perceived well-being and their physiological measures such as heart rate variability, resting heart rate, sleep, and physical activity. My team specifically investigates privacy perceptions, the quantified self, and differential privacy related to the LEMURS study. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/1617804102409-W1EHAL88L2ZWMN0Z9B3D/Screen+Shot+2021-04-07+at+10.01.24+AM.png RESEARCH - A How To: reflections on planning virtual science conferences. August 6, 2020. by Juniper Lovato (general conference chair) and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (conference co-organizer), Vermont Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/ac01f270-25a6-4bca-a45a-378dea51e990/download.jpeg RESEARCH - Make it stand out Award Number:2242829. For support of the RII Track-1: Harnessing the Data Revolution for Vermont: The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/d69a80ba-d81c-4f16-89e6-d0ca46ba8e1d/image071.jpeg RESEARCH Grant Number: G-2024-22498. For support of the VErmont ReSearch OSPO (VERSO) Project. support land-grant open source software as a part of the University of Vermont open source programs office https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/ef12df89-355e-4a27-995c-e552c2576517/1260420423377303872337910219084951203773744o-937907-1610377722.jpeg RESEARCH For support of the MassMutual Center of Excellence in Complex Systems and Data Science https://juniperlovato.com/news daily 0.75 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/aa9331e8-9126-49d3-bad3-d58d3a2eb09e/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+6.55.11%E2%80%AFPM.png NEWS - AI Will See You Now Will AI help cut health care costs and improve patient outcomes? Vermont Tech Jam Panel 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/38e776d2-4cb8-4b4f-9b29-3ddf26a022e3/VACC_Lovato_Chawla_Suchdev_2_1800x1012.jpg.webp NEWS - IceCore Advances a New Era of Discovery at UVM UVM's next-generation supercomputer delivers 100 petaflops of GPU power—multiplying research capacity 25-fold and opening the door to breakthroughs for CEMS researchers and across campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/9088145f-8f90-4161-bdff-3eac8aa36e71/download.webp NEWS - KSFR Our Santa Interview This week on Our Santa Fe, Andrew interviews Juniper Lovato, Professor of Computer Science at the The University of Vermont discusses Artificial Intelligence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/29086c0f-6055-484a-a7eb-94148df1f4e8/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+6.29.48%E2%80%AFPM.png NEWS - WCAX Across the Fence Interview What Does a Computer Scientist (and Philosopher) think of A.I.? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/59d82da0-4d5b-476b-872a-e4b2516fb4eb/Screenshot+2026-01-02+at+6.35.33%E2%80%AFPM.png NEWS - WCAX You Can Quote Me Interview Guests include UVM computer scientists Laurent Hebert Dufresne and Juniper Lovato, who brings us new insights into why some social media videos go viral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/2e3d9ffa-72e3-499d-9399-2329a7267a18/unnamed.png NEWS - The use of artificial intelligence in Vermont's classrooms Radio interview on June 25, 2024, Vermont Edition, Vermont Public Radio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/c3476633-1e12-4467-85da-950f1de5dc01/FvoFV3dWYA0GQ-h.jpeg NEWS - We’ve received a major new $20M award from NSF EPSCoR for the study of stories: “Harnessing the Data Revolution for Vermont: The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS)” (fun Twitter thread about the project). Co-PIs: Peter Dodds, Chris Danforth, Randall Harp, Juniper Lovato, and Kirk Dombrowski. Huge awesome team effort from so many staff, faculty, and researchers across the board! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/53c9e750-f452-463d-9134-c79a10ab69b1/Event23_500px+%281%29.png NEWS - Join us for our Public Philosophy Week Talk AI and Humanity: What's the Deal and Where Are We Now? Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 8:00-9:00 PM Venetian Soda Lounge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/e9d3bd94-b1e9-42b4-ad7f-a5799fbbfcbc/group_14.jpeg NEWS - Our team on the road @ KIAS Our team took a trip to the Korean Institute for Advanced Study over spring break for a joint workshop on higher-order interactions in networks. The joint workshop between the Vermont Complex Systems Center and KIAS aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines, including physics, mathematics, computer science, social science, philosophy, and other fields, to explore the topic of higher-order network and hypergraph interactions. The workshop also aims to advance the state of knowledge on higher-order networks and hypergraphs, promote the development of new methods and tools for analyzing and visualizing complex networks, and discuss the implications of higher-order networks in diverse contexts. (Photo credit @kimyoungjin06 Instagram, more photos here) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/e3b54a6f-96a9-45fd-ae3a-05f85313c681/versoBeach.png NEWS - Announcing Project VERSO an Open Source Programs Office at UVM January 1, 2022 The VErmont ReSearch OSPO (VERSO) is the official Open Source Program Office at the University of Vermont. Our goal is to build an open source community through high-impact open source software projects, community development, and education. (press) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/a94f6b85-3070-4b59-beef-11fa5dc6e0f3/small+Otters_biking.png NEWS - Announcing Project OCEAN with Google Open Source Jan 13, 2020 The goal of this Vermont Complex Systems Center project at the University of Vermont is to deepen understanding of how people, teams and organizations thrive in technology-rich settings, especially in open-source projects and communities. The Google Open-Source Programs Office, a division of Google that manages Google’s use and release of open source software and promotes open source programming, has provided the University of Vermont (UVM) Complex Systems Center a $1 million unrestricted gift to support open source research. The Google award will establish a collaboration between the Google Open Source team and UVM to begin building a community-oriented body of research focused on understanding how open source platforms are used and what makes technology-rich environments thrive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f2df9e4b005448789f145/2dc62dda-9d9a-49da-a9b4-2978cb5747c8/tardigrade1.png NEWS - Announcing the MassMutual Center of Excellence in Complex Systems & Data Science January 1, 2018 The MassMutual Center of Excellence in Complex Systems & Data Science supports a growing collection of talented faculty, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students on research projects related to data visualization, computational finance, mortality modeling, algorithmic fairness, physical & mental health, and sleep. Students on the UVM team are enrolled in academic degree programs in Complex Systems & Data Science, Mathematical Sciences, and Computer Science. 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