Christopher Dancy

Professional Bio

Christopher L. Dancy is the Harold and Inge Marcus Industrial and Manufacturing Career Development Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, of Computer Science and Engineering, and of African American Studies and director of THiCC Lab. Professor Dancy is also an affiliate faculty in the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences and Center for Socially Responsible AI. His interest and expertise lie at the intersections of human behavior, computational systems, and sociocultural structures. He uses theoretical perspectives from computational cognitive science and Black studies to ground his research at these intersections, more recently focusing on the racialization and antiblackness found in these intersections. To study the processes that mediate these interactions, Professor Dancy uses computational cognitive modeling, human behavioral studies, and design and implementation considerations of computational (particularly “AI”) systems.