Nick Judd

Nicholas C. Judd, Ph.D., is a computational social scientist and lead research engineer with the Digital Safety Research Institute at the UL Research Institutes.

Prior to joining ULRI, Dr. Judd led evaluation for what was at the time called Twitter's Birdwatch, an innovative and experimental social networking feature that mobilizes augmented intelligence to mitigate problems caused by fraud, scams, and other inauthentic content. He took his Ph.D. in Sociology from The University of Chicago, where he studied collective decision-making in politics and government.

Also a writer on the subject of technology and society, he has appeared (as author or expert source) in The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, CNN.com, Yahoo News, and Vice, among others.