Regular biography
Jennifer Allen is an Assistant Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. She joined Stern in July 2025. Her research focuses on how the digital media environment influences people’s attitudes, decisions, and behavior, and how scalable solutions can be developed to improve online platforms by leveraging collective intelligence and large language models. She draws on theories in psychology and communication, using a diverse methodological toolkit that includes behavioral experiments, crowdsourcing, and large-scale data analysis. Her work has been published in top journals such as Science, PNAS, Nature Human Behavior, and the Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.