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Education

In 1993, she attended Columbia College, Columbia University in pursuit of getting her degree in Economics and Middle Eastern Languages & Culture. Later on in 2001, She went back to school at The Graduate Center, City University of New York for Sociology. She then continued her sociology studied at Columbia University. Later in 2004, she pursued a PHD in Sociology at Columbia University.

Research

Gina Neff has participated in various amounts of research projects. Two of her most well known research studies are with The University of Oxford. The “Al & Data Diversity” project focuses on increasing the public knowledge and comprehension of data diversity and the frequent choices that surround Al and technology innovation. With doing so, it will allow for the curation of more advanced technologies while also increasing and enhancing the science on diversity in technology led growth. The “Data Work: Collaboration, Sense Making and the Possible Futures For Work” project focuses on supporting the release time for writing an academic monograph in the sociology of technology. Which concentrates the background and experience for digital transformation workers and the lessons learned throughout this experience in the era of Al and big data.

Teaching

At The University of Oxford Gina Neff is a professor for “Social Dynamics of the Internet” which is a course designed to curate a common basis of understanding in order to debate the internet and to curate a similar understanding of the social implications of the internet. Including the studies of political communication, audience attention, Al and big data, and international digital media.

Books

Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries is Gina Neff’s first book. In this book, Gina Neff focuses on the effects of Silicon Alley in the 1990s. At a time in which employees would quit their well paying jobs in order to take a risk for the chance of becoming successful through stock options in upcoming growing industries. She goes through extensive and thorough research and interviews which ultimately leads to her connection of these individuals actions to larger and economical structures.

Self Tracking is Gina Neff’s most recent book. It was also awarded Co-Winner, 2013 American Sociological Association Section on Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA) Book Award. This book centers around the usage of self tracking in regards to monitoring sleep hours, activity and fitness, consumed calories and medication. The book examines and analyzes the habits and the usage of self tracking while connecting these habits to specific communities they consist of. Gina Neff and her co-author Dawn Nafus examine and explain the effects of self tracking and the impact these communities have with one another.

Awards & Grants

Over the years Gina Neff has received several awards and grants from various foundations and funds. In 2007, The University of Washington’s Royalty Research Fund granted her $39,655. The award was given to her from the fund for being the Co-principal investigator for “Analyzing the Ramifications of New Communication Technologies for Collaboration in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction.” In 2008,  the National Science Foundation granted her $218,082. This award was given to her for being the principal investigator for “Assessing Collaboration Across Organizational Boundaries In U.S. Green Construction: Does Working Together With New Information Technology Result In Better Buildings?” In 2010, Intel Corporation granted her $240,000 for being the principal investigator for “Organizational Adoption of and Adaptation to Patient Biosensor Data.” in 2012, The National Science Foundation awarded her $11,825 for being the principal investigator alongside Brittany Fiore-SIlfvast for “ Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Informationalization of Healthcare: Shifting Subjectivities, Organizational Forms and Ways of Knowing in the U.S. and India.” In 2013, The National Science Foundation awarded her $432,009 for being the Co-principal investigator for “Reduce Energy Consumption Through Integrated Design: How Do Engineers Translate and Teams Synthesize?” In 2014, UW Green Seed Fund granted her $77,489 for being a Key Personnel on “Building User Audit: Capturing Behavior, Energy and Culture.” In the same year she was awarded 10,000 and the Microsoft FUSE Labs Faculty Research Award for her work on “Closing the Innovation Readiness Gap.” Most recently in 2016, she was given the UW Innovation Award, along with $170,000 for he work on “Engineering Communication In Data Rich Environments: How do we support innovation in multidisciplinary teams?”