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Allegra A. Beal Cohen

Hi! You're on my page. I vaguely remember html pages from the days of the good Internet. Claude makes it a lot easier now.

I'm interested in knowledge curation, new interfaces and large-scale qualitative data. I'm currently Program Director of Talk to the City at the AI Objectives Institute. Before that, I was an ARC Fellow at Renaissance Philanthropy, and before that, I was at DARPA where I ran the Collaborative Knowledge Curation effort.

My background is in computational modeling. I earned a Ph.D. from the Agricultural and Biological Engineering department at University of Florida, building an agent-based model of gender norms in agricultural systems. I did my postdoc on the DARPA Habitus program, where I built a little tool for processing the qualitative data I was eliciting from local experts in the Senegal River Valley.

I'm currently reading Vernor Vinge, George Saunders and Darwin's book on worms (strangely relaxing.) I'm always reading William Gibson.

Allegra