Dr. Roderic Crooks is a recipient of the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. He is currently working with Prof. Geoffrey C. Bowker’s EVOKE Lab in the Department of Informatics. Roderic works with a team of data scientists to investigate how data science itself is applied to public education in the heavily segregated schools of Southern California. His goals are to gather evidence about how data scientists make predictions and how these predictions shape organizational behavior, and to build theories that can explain how data science is becoming a mode of management of risk, complexity, and value.
Roderic received his Ph.D. from the Department of Information Studies at UCLA where he conducted an ethnographic study of a one-to-one tablet computer program in South Central Los Angeles. He is keen on biking and running around the Irvine area.