SOHAN DSOUZA, Page 1/2 SOHAN SAVIO DSOUZA Boston, MA | +1(857)300-9169 | sohandsouza@acm.org www.sohandsouza.info SUMMARY • Software engineer and researcher, developed applications for behavioral studies of millions • Developed web application, service, and agent software for global and regional industry leaders • Experienced in visualization, mobile development, and deploying/managing scalable systems • Published research in crowdsourcing, social mobilization, AI in society, and e-negotiation EXPERIENCE MIT Media Lab, Scalable Cooperation Group Cambridge, MA, USA Research Assistant September 2015 – January 2021 • Co-created Moral Machine, an online experiment, surveying ethical assessments of machine-made moral decisions from millions globally in ten languages, using Meteor.js and MongoDB • Led development of an interactive D3.js tool for visualization of media sentiment among countries over time, with daily retrieval and transformation of large datasets for the backend • Designed online research experiment storyboards, wireframes, visualizations, and graphics • Developed interactive D3.js visualization tools for results of research work, on networks of international cooperation, and on global moral trade-off preferences for autonomous vehicles • Created social recruitment systems for the Media Lab to solicit award and fellowship nominees • Analysed patterns of trade-off preferences in ethical dilemmas across cultures, using Python Masdar Institute of Science and Technology Masdar City, UAE Smart Tech for EVs and Automotive Systems Lab, Social Computing and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Interactive Artificial Intelligence Lab Research Engineer December 2010 – August 2015 • Developed a Cordova mobile application that collects and logs automobile sensor and engine information, for prediction of fuel economy using crowdsourced driving behavior • Developed Java web apps for conducting behavioural experiments both on the Amazon MTurk platform and in-lab, to study game cooperation incentives for human subjects and bots • Developed Java web apps for crowdsourcing geographical search tasks on social networks, first for the MyHeartMap campaign, then winning the US State Department’s Tag Challenge • Wrote Python code for simulation of geographical search tasks using social recruitment models • Refined a decision theoretic model for goal revelation in computer-mediated e-negotiation • Served as Teaching Assistant in graduate-level Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms courses Zawya, Technology & Research Dubai, UAE Operations Analyst August 2007 – December 2010 • Developed an in-house business intelligence tool in ColdFusion and Java to clean, transform, and cache business performance data, and present it to associates in the form of customizable and exportable on-demand charts and reports • Created a Java text-mining agent to automatically tag entities mentioned in incoming news feeds, and an interface for content editors to improve the tag suggestion accuracy as they work • Reengineered a market data supply chain application for greater robustness and efficiency • Developed administrative software applications, services, and agents, in Java and ColdFusion to process multimedia content and financial data along their respective workflows SOHAN DSOUZA, Page 2/2 Hewitt Associates, Technology Development Centre Navi Mumbai, India Web Applications Developer December 2004 – January 2006 • Created core modules for a new company-standard Java/JSP MVC web application architecture • Worked with client to reengineer worksheet-based cost management into Java/JSP web app • Developed company’s prototype absence management tool, and subsequent adaptations of it • Received the Hewitt TDC Star Award for “significant contributions and value-addition” EDUCATION Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences 2021 Thesis : Crowdsourcing Moral Psychology British University in Dubai (associate of the University of Edinburgh, UK) Dubai, UAE Master of Science in Informatics – Knowledge and Data Management 2009 Academics : Distinction, Laboratory Assistant for two courses Thesis : Empirical Studies in Computer-Mediated Interest-Based Negotiations S.P. Jain Centre of Management Dubai, UAE + Singapore Global Masters in Business Administration – Information Technology Management 2007 Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL, USA Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems, minor in Circuits and Systems 2004 Research : Voltage security assessment online platform for the Power Lab RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS ● Awad, E., Dsouza, S. et al. (2020) Universals and variations in moral decisions made in 42 countries by 70,000. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ● Awad, E., Levine, S., Kleiman-Weiner, M., Dsouza, S. et al. (2019) Drivers are blamed more than their automated cars when both make mistakes. Nature Human Behaviour. ● Awad, E., Dsouza, S. et al. (2018) The Moral Machine experiment. Nature. ● Wilhelm, E., Siegel, J., Mayer, S., Sadamori , L., Dsouza, S. et al. (2015) Cloudthink: a scalable secure platform for mirroring transportation systems in the cloud. Transport. ● Dsouza, S. et al. (2013) Reasoning about goal revelation in human negotiation. IEEE Intelligent Systems. ● Rahwan, I., Dsouza, S. et al. (2013) Global Manhunt Pushes the Limits of Social Mobilization. Computer. ● Rutherford, A., Cebrian, M., Dsouza, S. et al. (2013) Limits of Social Mobilization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ● Rutherford, A., Cebrian, M., Rahwan, I., Dsouza, S. et al. (2013) Targeted Social Mobilization in a Global Manhunt. PLoS ONE. SKILLS & INTERESTS Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Meteor.js, HTML5+CSS3, Bootstrap, D3.js, AWS (EC2, S3), Cordova, Java, SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB), C++, Tesseract, Scrapy, R, ColdFusion, PHP, Perl Languages: English (fluent, native); Mandarin, Hindi, French, Arabic (basic) Interests: Philosophy, history, theatre, improv, standup, drawing, kayaking