Board of Directors

Paul Resnick

Professor and Associate Dean for Research,  School of Information, University of Michigan

Paul Resnick is the Michael D. Cohen Collegiate Professor of Information and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Michigan School of Information.

Resnick is a pioneer in the fields of recommender systems and reputation systems. He helped develop the GroupLens system, which was awarded the ACM Software Systems Award in 2010. His articles have appeared in Scientific American, Wired, Communications of the ACM, The American Economic Review, Management Science and elsewhere.

In 2012, he co-authored the MIT Press book, “Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-based Social Design,” with Robert Kraut.

In 2018, Resnick started the Center for Social Media Responsibility, which encourages and helps social media platforms to meet their public responsibilities.