Aaron Gluck-Thaler

Aaron Gluck-Thaler is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, where he holds the Professorship in Data Sciences and is a Faculty Affiliate at The Citizen Lab. Aaron’s research focuses on the history of surveillance, artificial intelligence, and science and technology in the Cold War. His current book project examines the role that scientists played in the emergence of data-intensive surveillance in the 20th century. Aaron received his PhD in the History of Science from Harvard University.

Aaron holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, a MSc in the Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute, and a MSc in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Aaron’s research projects have been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Charles Babbage Institute, and the American Philosophical Society, among other organizations.