Hirokazu Shirado is an Assistant Professor of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained his doctorate in Sociology at Yale University in 2019, where he was a member of the Human Nature Lab at the Yale Institute for Network Science. Before Yale, he spent eight years as an engineering researcher at Sony Corporation.
His research focuses on the role of social interactions and technology in the emergence of social order and in the collective confrontation of social dilemmas. He is particularly committed to the experimental study of cooperative behaviors as they manifest through interactions between people within social networks. He is also studying hybrid systems of humans and machines, particularly how machine intelligence can help people address collective action challenges.
For more information, please check Hirokazu’s CV.
Working experience
- Aug 2019 – Present Carnegie Mellon University, Assistant Professor
- Apr 2006 – Sep 2014 Sony Corporation, Researcher
- Sep 2011 – Aug 2012 Harvard Medical School, Visiting Researcher
- Apr 2009 – Aug 2011 Keio University (Japan), Visiting Researcher
Education
- Sep 2014 – May 2019 Yale University, Ph.D. in Sociology
- Apr 2004 – Mar 2006 Keio University (Japan), Master in Engineering