Hi! I’m Logan. I’m an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Vassar College.
I teach ML, HCI, data science, and critical algorithm studies. In my research, I’m broadly interested in how emerging technologies facilitate care and carcerality.
I got my PhD at U of Minnesota, advised by Haiyi Zhu and Steven Wu at CMU. I was (am?) part of GroupLens. During undergrad, I worked with Prof. Diane Michelfelder on philosophy of technology.
Ongoing Research
My ongoing work looks at:
– carceral care technologies (especially in child welfare / family policing)
– online epistemic communities for trans women / femmes
– digital technologies for people who experience suicidality
Select Research
“If This Person is Suicidal, What Do I Do?”: Designing Computational Approaches to Help Online Volunteers Respond to Suicidality [paper]
In CHI 2024 and the Northeast HCI Meeting 2024
Logan Stapleton, Sunniva Liu, Cindy Liu, Irene Hong, Stevie Chancellor, Robert Kraut, Haiyi Zhu
Imagining new futures beyond predictive systems in child welfare: A qualitative study with impacted stakeholders [paper]
In FAccT 2022
Logan Stapleton, Min Hun Lee, Diana Qing, Marya Wright, Alexandra Chouldechova, Kenneth Holstein, Zhiwei Steven Wu, Haiyi Zhu
How Child Welfare Workers Reduce Racial Disparities in Algorithmic Decisions [paper][extended analysis][short talk][blog]
In CHI 2022
Hao-Fei Cheng*, Logan Stapleton*, Anna Kawakami, Venkatesh Sivaraman, Yanghuidi Cheng, Diana Qing, Adam Perer, Kenneth Holstein, Zhiwei Steven Wu, Haiyi Zhu (*equal contribution)
Will the “age of algorithmization” be an age of technological paternalism?
Appeared at CEPE 2019 (Computer Ethics—Philosophical Enquiry)
Diane Michelfelder, Logan Stapleton