Founding Researchers
Bill Maurer
Dean, School of Social Sciences, Professor of Anthropology & Law, & Director, Institute
for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion
wmmaurer@uci.edu
Taylor C. Nelms
Managing Director of Research, Filene Research Institute
taylor.nelms@gmail.com
Affiliated Researchers
Farah Qureshi
PhD student, Graduate Student Blockchain Researcher, Department of Anthropology
farahq@uci.edu
Melissa Wrapp
PhD student, Graduate Student Filene and Blockchain Researcher, Department of Anthropology
mwrapp@uci.edu
Quinn DuPont
Assistant Professor, College of Business, University College Dublin
isaac.q.dupont@gmail.com
Media and Communications Research Fellow in CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin
rachel.odwyer@gmail.com
Lana Swartz
Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia
lanalana@gmail.com
Professor of Law, University of Lucerne, Switzerland
vagias.karavas@unilu.ch
Associate Professor at the School of Communication, Istanbul Bilgi University
sakaerka@gmail.com
Bryan Cunningham
Executive Director, Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute
b.cunningham@uci.edu
Christopher T. Fan
Assistant Professor of English
chris.fan@uci.edu
Vijay Gurbaxani
Taco Bell Endowed Professor of Information Systems and Computer Science & Director,
Center for Digital Transformation, Paul Merage School of Business
vgurbaxa@uci.edu
Peter Krapp
Professor & Chair of Film & Media Studies
krapp@uci.edu
Simone Lanette
Lead Researcher, Data Driven Content
simone.lanette@gmail.com
James Liu
PhD student, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
jamesal1@uci.edu
Caitlin Lustig
PhD student, Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
clustig@uci.edu
Omri Marian
Professor of Law
omarian@law.uci.edu
Amelia Regan
Professor of Computer Science and Transportation Systems Engineering & Director, Master
of Computer Science Program and MS/PhD in Transportation Science, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
aregan@uci.edu
Walt Scacchi
Senior Research Scientist, Insitute of Software Research & Research Director, Institute
for Virtual Environments and Computer Games, Donald Bren School of Information and
Computer Sciences
wscacchi@ics.uci.edu
Michael Szalay
Professor & Chair of English & Director, Center for Culture & Capital
mszalay@uci.edu