Jennifer Allen
PhD Candidate
Jennifer is a 4th Year PhD Student in Marketing at MIT Sloan School of Management. Jennifer’s research interests include misinformation, political persuasion, and crowdsourcing. She is advised by David Rand.
Prior to MIT, Jennifer worked as a software engineer at Meta on the News team, and as a research assistant at Microsoft Research with the Computational Social Science Group. She graduated from Yale in 2016 with a BA in Computer Science and Psychology.
Featured publications
February 20, 2022
- David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead
- Jennifer Allen | PhD Candidate
Antonio Alonso Arechar
Adam Berinsky
Rocky Cole
Ziv Epstein
Kiran Garimella
Andrew Gully
Jackson G. Lu
Robert M Ross
Michael Stagnaro
Jerry Zhang
Gordon Pennycook
December 21, 2021
- David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead
- Jennifer Allen | PhD Candidate
Cameron Martel
September 1, 2021
- David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead
- Jennifer Allen | PhD Candidate
Antonio A. Arechar
Gordon Pennycook
April 14, 2021
- David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead
- Jennifer Allen | PhD Candidate
Antonio A. Arechar