travis lloyd

researcher, musician, public interest technologist

Email: traeve@traeve.com
Bluesky: @travislloydphd.bsky.social
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/travis-lloyd

research

i’m a fourth-year Information Science PhD student at Cornell Tech, co-advised by Mor Naaman and Karen Levy. my research uses a human-centered approach to study the relationship between emerging technologies (especially AI), policy, and economic inequality.

i’m a member of the Social Technologies Lab and the Artificial Intelligence, Policy, and Practice (AIPP) initiative, as well as an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Inequality. i’m funded by an NSF CSGrad4US fellowship.

after a decade working in industry, i returned to academia to study the impacts of technology through a social science lens. if you’re considering a similar change and would like to talk, please reach out.

selected publications

For an up-to-date list, see Google Scholar.

Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems For Social Media

Travis Lloyd, Tung Nguyen, Karen Levy, Mor Naaman
paper. CHI2026.

“There Has To Be a Lot That We’re Missing”: Moderating AI-Generated Content on Reddit
Travis Lloyd, Joseph Reagle, Mor Naaman
paper. CSCW2025. 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention.
AI Rules? Characterizing Reddit Community Policies Towards AI-Generated Content
Travis Lloyd, Jennah Gosciak, Tung Nguyen, Mor Naaman
paper. dataset. CHI2025.