Pegah Moradi

Pegah Moradi is a PhD candidate in Information Science studying the social and organizational dimensions of digital automation, with a particular interest in work and workers. Her dissertation research focuses on how self-checkout and automated surveillance impact frontline retail work.

Pegah's work is supported by the NSF GRFP, Microsoft Research, the Siegel Public-Interest Technology Fellowship, and the MacArthur Foundation (through the Cornell AI, Policy, and Practice Initiative). Before starting her PhD, she received her B.A. in the interdisciplinary College Scholar program at Cornell and worked as a Project Manager for an enterprise software company in Washington, D.C.

Areas of Interest: Automation, Work and Labor, Digital Economy, Surveillance and Privacy, Policy