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Dr. Daniene Byrne

SUNY PRODiG+ Fellow, Department of Technology and Society, PhD, Stony Brook University      D Byrne

Office: 1434 Old Computer Science
Office Hours:  By appointment
Phone: 631-632-9974
Email:  daniene.byrne@stonybrook.edu  

About

I study public policymaking for emergent technologies as a design process with social justice impacts. I attended Stony Brook’s M.A.P.P. program, studying with urban planner Lee Koppelman, and then advanced to Stony Brook’s Ph.D. program in Technology, Policy and Innovation, led by Dr. David Ferguson. My interdisciplinary graduate experience connected society, policy, STS, science communication, and media studies; all relevant to understanding technological development and their intertwined cultural, social, and political impacts.  My dissertation focused on policy design processes for Automated Driving Systems (ADS). Working across engineering policy development and administrative law, I investigated STS theories using political science mixed methods. Results quantified the extent to which various stakeholder desires inform ADS policy decisions. In 2023-2024 I was fortunate to work for C/STEP as Program Manager. Future research will focus on the controversies and consequences throughout the ongoing development of Responsible AI policies for youth-related technologies in media and education. 

Publications:

  1. Byrne, D. 2023. “Book Review: The Leak – Robert P. Crease with Peter Bond”, IEEE, Technology

    and Society Magazine, 42, 2 (June 2023)
  2. Byrne, D. 2021. “Book Review: Data Feminism- Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein”, IEEE,

    Technology and Society Magazine. 41, 4. (December 2021)
  3. Byrne, D. 2021. “Developing a Technology Policy Feedback Course” Graduate Research in STS

Conference Proceedings:

  1. Byrne, D. 2025, Engineering US Responsible AI Policy, A Survey 2020-2025, ASEE American Society of Engineering Education, Annual Conference & Exposition Montreal, July 2025
  2. Byrne D, 2021, Developing a Technology Policy Feedback Course, GRISTS, Graduate Research in STS Conference, Disrupted Lives Roundtable, STS Program Kennedy School, Harvard.