Janet Vertesi

Janet Vertesi is associate professor of sociology at Princeton University, specializing in the sociology of science, technology, and organizations. She has worked with NASA's robotic space missions as an ethnographer since 2005, including missions to Mars, the outer planets, and the outer solar system.

Author of "Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars" (University of Chicago Press, 2015), she is also an active member of the Human-Computer Interaction community, with publications at ACM CHI, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Ubiquitous Computing.

Vertesi holds advanced degrees from Cornell University and the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy and an advisory board member of the Center for Data & Society.