Madeleine I. G. Daepp is a senior researcher on the Special Projects team at Microsoft Research, where she studies the opportunities and challenges generative AI poses for global democracy. She has also driven research on AI-augmented surveys and emerging spatial inequalities in AI usage that featured in the Microsoft New Future of Work report.

Previously, she led research on Project Eclipse, a deployment of 100+ low-cost air quality sensors in Chicago. Her work was published in leading venues across public health, environmental science, and computer science, served as the foundation of a data science-driven reporting series by Muckrock, WBEZ Chicago, and the Chicago Sun-Times, and became a case study for the World Bank / USC Annenberg Summer Institute.

Madeleine’s work is characterized by multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary collaborations that leverage new data sets. Prior to joining Microsoft, she worked with public health nutritionists to quantify Vancouver children’s food advertising exposures and collaborated with Boston residents to visualize common pathways of displacement from consumer credit data. At Microsoft Research, she seeks to leverage novel technologies to collaborate towards solving problems in shared public spaces.