Hi! I’m Logan. I’m an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Vassar College.
In my work, I’m broadly interested in how emerging technologies facilitate care and carcerality. I mostly teach machine learning, data science, HCI, AI ethics, critical algorithm studies.
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 involves:
– technologies in the child welfare / family policing system
– technologies used in care systems that reify carcerality
– online epistemic communities for trans women / femmes
– building tools and using data to oppose ICE and support communities
– digital technologies for people who experience suicidality
News
– (June 2026) I was an invited speaker on a panel on tech in child welfare at Georgetown Law
– (May 2026) I got a new tattoo of the lake I grew up on 🙂 very happy with it!
– (Summer 2026) Me and two of my students (who I’m so proud of!) got URSI funding to do research with community activist groups on data analysis and building software to oppose ICE
– (Spring 2025) I published a report on my work on algorithms in the child welfare system for the UMN Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
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