Assistant Professor · School of Computing Science , Simon Fraser University
Responsible AI, Human-computer Interaction, Machine learning, social computing
Prof. Nick Vincent is an Assistant Professor in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. He studies the content ecosystems and data supply chains that fuel data-dependent technologies like search engines, recommender systems, and generative AI. This involves exploring avenues for people to control how data flow and participate in the governance of AI systems. The overarching goal of this research is to work towards highly capable and widely beneficial AI technologies that mitigate -- rather than exacerbate -- inequalities in wealth and power.
Latest peer-reviewed work plus workshop pieces and preprints.
Nicholas Vincent, Matthew Prewitt, Hanlin Li
NeurIPS Position Papers Dec 2025
Ayana Hussain, Patrick Zhao, Nicholas Vincent
AIES Jul 2025
Mahasweta Chakraborti, Bert Joseph Prestoza, Nicholas Vincent, Seth Frey
AIES Jul 2025
Aditya Karan, Nicholas Vincent, Karrie Karahalios, Hari Sundaram
ACM FAccT Jun 2025
Zachary Wojtowicz, Shrey Jain, Nicholas Vincent
ACM FAccT Jun 2025
Heila Precel, Allison McDonald, Brent Hecht, Nicholas Vincent
ACM CHI Mar 2024
Leijie Wang, Nicholas Vincent, Julija Rukanskaitė, Amy X. Zhang
ACM CHI Mar 2024
Leah Ajmani, Nicholas Vincent, Stevie Chancellor
ACM CSCW Nov 2023
Hanlin Li, Nicholas Vincent, Stevie Chancellor, Brent Hecht
ACM FAccT Jun 2023
Danish Contractor, Daniel McDuff, Julia Katherine Haines, Jenny Lee, Christopher Hines, Brent Hecht, Nicholas Vincent, Hanlin Li
ACM FAccT Jun 2022
Farhan Asif Chowdhury, Yozen Liu, Koustuv Saha, Nicholas Vincent, Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah, Maarten W Bos
AAAI ICWSM May 2021
Jack Bandy, Nicholas Vincent
NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks May 2021
Koustuv Saha, Yozen Liu, Nicholas Vincent, Farhan Asif Chowdhury, Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah, Maarten W Bos
ACM CHI May 2021
Nicholas Vincent, Brent Hecht
ACM CSCW Apr 2021
Nicholas Vincent, Brent Hecht
ACM CSCW Apr 2021
Vincent, Nicholas and Li, Hanlin and Tilly, Nicole and Chancellor, Stevie and Hecht, Brent
ACM FAccT Feb 2021
Hanlin Li, Nicholas Vincent, Janice Tsai, Jofish Kaye, Brent Hecht
ACM CSCW Nov 2019
Nicholas Vincent, Isaac Johnson, Patrick Sheehan, Brent Hecht
AAAI ICWSM Jul 2019
Nicholas Vincent, Brent Hecht, Shilad Sen
ACM The Web Conference May 2019
Eureka Foong, Nicholas Vincent, Brent Hecht, Elizabeth M Gerber
ACM CSCW Oct 2018
Nicholas Vincent, Isaac Johnson, Brent Hecht
ACM CHI Apr 2018
Jaeryang Baek, Ayana Hussain, Danny Liu, Nicholas Vincent, Lawrence H. Kim
arXiv preprint Oct 2025
Joshua Tan, Nicholas Vincent, Katherine Elkins, Magnus Sahlgren
CodeML @ ICML 2025 Jul 2025
Devansh Bhojak, Nicholas Vincent
4S 2025 Conference: Reverberations May 2025
Zining Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Dongwook Yoon, Nicholas Vincent, Farhan Samir, Vered Shwartz
arXiv preprint Apr 2025
Brian Miki, Nicholas Vincent
HEAL Workshop @ CHI 2025 Apr 2025
Nicholas Vincent, Mark Surman, Jake Hirch-Allen
author preprint Apr 2025
Weina Jin, Nicholas Vincent, Ghassan Hamarneh
arXiv preprint Mar 2025
Mahasweta Chakraborti, Bert Joseph Prestoza, Nicholas Vincent, Seth Frey
AAAI 2025 Workshop on AIGOV Dec 2024
Nicholas Vincent
Nature Machine Intelligence, News & Views Aug 2024
Timothy J. Baek, Nicholas Vincent, Lawrence Kim
HEAL Workshop @ CHI 2024 May 2024
Clare Provenzano, Parsa Rajabi, Diana Cukierman, Nicholas Vincent
GenAICHI @ CHI 2024 May 2024
Nicholas Vincent, David Bau, Sarah Schwettmann, Joshua Tan
RegML 2023 Workshop @ NeurIPS 2023 Nov 2023
Nicholas Vincent, Brent Hecht
EAAMO 2023 Poster Track Oct 2023
Leah Ajmani, Mo Houtti, Jasmine C Foriest, Michael Ann Devito, Nicholas Vincent, Isaac Johnson
Workshop at CSCW Oct 2023
Hanlin Li, Nicholas Vincent, Yacine Jernite, Nick Merrill, Jesse Josua Benjamin, Alek Tarkowski
Workshop at CSCW 2023 Oct 2023
Hanlin Li, Leah Ajmani, Moyan Zhou, Nicholas Vincent, Sohyeon Hwang, Tiziano Piccardi, Sneha Narayan, Sherae Daniel, Veniamin Veselovsky
Workshop at CSCW Nov 2022
Isaiah Jones, Brent Hecht, Nicholas Vincent
ACM CSCW Posters Nov 2022
Nicholas Vincent, Christine Vandevoorde
CESC 2022 Oct 2022
Rod Abhari, Nicholas Vincent, Henry K Dambanemuya, Herminio Bodon, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát
arXiv preprint Mar 2022
Yakov Feygin, Nicholas Vincent, Hanlin Li, Chirag Lala, Luisa Scarcella
Book Chapter Oct 2021
Yakov Feygin, Hanlin Li, Chirag Lala, Brent Hecht, Nicholas Vincent, Luisa Scarcella, Matthew Prewitt
Berggruen Institute white paper Apr 2021
Nicholas Vincent, Yichun Li, Renee Zha, Brent Hecht
arXiv preprint Nov 2019
Noah Stier, Nicholas Vincent, David Liebeskind, Fabien Scalzo
BIBM 2015 Workshop on Biomedical Visual Search and Deep Learning Nov 2015
Nicholas Vincent, Noah Stier, Songlin Yu, David S Liebeskind, Danny JJ Wang, Fabien Scalzo
BIBM 2015 Workshop on Biomedical Visual Search and Deep Learning Nov 2015
Essays, commentary, and blogs.
Jan 2024 — The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists link
Sep 2023 — The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists link
Jun 2023 — Montreal AI Ethics Institute Research Summaries link
Dec 2022 — Wired link
Feb 2021 — Northwestern Now link
Oct 2025 — Data Leverage Newsletter link
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Jan 2024 — Metagov Blog link
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Jul 2021 — Technically Social link
Jun 2021 — PSA Computing Blog link
Mar 2021 — Observable Notebook link
Feb 2021 — Data Leverage Newsletter link
Sep 2020 — PSA Computing Blog link
Sep 2020 — Data Leverage Newsletter link
Invited talks, panels, and podcasts.
Dec 2025 — (Panel)
Dec 2025 — San Diego, CA (Talk)
Sep 2025 — Seattle, WA (Talk)
Aug 2025 — Singagore AI Safety Hub (Talk)
Jun 2025 — BrainTrainr Podcast (Podcast)
Mar 2025 — McMaster Internet Policy Lab (Talk)
Mar 2025 — UBC NLP (Talk)
Mar 2025 — IATSE 891 AI Day of Learning @ Downtown Vancouver (Talk)
Aug 2024 — Human-Centered AI Conference @ Pepperdine University (Talk)
May 2024 — SIGCHI 2024 Outstanding Dissertation Award (Talk)
Jan 2024 — SFU DDI (Talk)
Jan 2024 — University of Toronto Data Sciences Institute: Fairness - ChatGPT Workshop (Panel)
Mar 2023 — Community Data Science Collective Community Dialogues (Talk)
Feb 2023 — Stanford Social NLP Reading Group Talks (Talk)
Jan 2023 — Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence, Toward a Safety Science of AI (Talk)
Dec 2022 — Open Health Data and AI Summit 2022 (Panel)
Oct 2021 — Things Have Changed Podcast (Podcast)
May 2021 — Wikipedia Research Showcase (Talk)
May 2021 — 3rd Obfuscation Workshop (Talk)
Apr 2021 — RadicalxChange Podcast (Podcast)
Dec 2020 — RadicalxChange Panels (Talk)
Jul 2020 — RadicalxChange 2020 Conference (Panel)
Apr 2018 — Wikipedia Research Showcase (Talk)
Select press, interviews, and commentary appearances.
The Financial Times , Gideon Lichfield , Sep 2025 Article link
Canadian HR Reporter , Stacy Thomas , Jul 2025 Article link
Australian Broadcasting Corporation , Rhiannon Stevens , May 2025 Article link
Canadian HR Reporter , Stacy Thomas , May 2025 Article link
Business Insider , Alistair Barr, Pranav Dixit , Apr 2025 Article link
Business Insider , Alistair Barr , Jan 2025 Article link
UBS , Richard Mylles , Jun 2024 Article link
The Washington Post , Kevin Shaul , Apr 2024 Article link
Jewish Telegraphic Agency , Asaf Elia-Shalev , Mar 2024 Article link
IT Brew , Tom McKay , Mar 2024 Article link
Business Insider , Kali Hays, Alistair Barr , Jan 2024 Article link
The Washington Post , Nitasha Tiku , Oct 2023 Article link
Business Insider , Alistar Barr , Aug 2023 Article link
New York Times Magazine , Jon Gernter , Jul 2023 Article link
MIT Technology Review , Melissa Heikkilä , Jun 2023 Article link
Le Monde , Aurélien Defer , Apr 2022 Article link
Vox , Rebecca Heilweil , Jun 2021 Article link
Bloomberg , Peter Coy , May 2021 Article link
MIT Technology Review , Karen Hao , Mar 2021 Article link
Fortune , Jonathan Vanian, Jeremy Kahn , Feb 2021 Article link
Quartz , Nicolás Rivero , Jul 2020 Article link
New York Times , John Herrman , Mar 2018 Article link