The iSchool is pleased to announce that Marianne Aubin Le Quéré will join the faculty as an assistant professor in August 2026, pending approval by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. Aubin Le Quéré is a PhD candidate in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University. For the 2025-2026 academic year, she will be a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy.
Aubin Le Quéré's work traces how AI and other emerging technologies impact online news and civic information ecosystems. She leverages mixed-method techniques to drive insights in the fields of social computing, computational social science, and communication. Her research has been published in general science venues and in the proceedings of top computer science conferences, including the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), and the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).
Her honors include receiving a Top Paper Award from the International Communication Association in 2024 and being named a 2021 Facebook Fellowship Finalist. Before beginning her doctoral studies, Aubin Le Quéré earned a BS in computer science and nonfiction from Brown University and worked as a product manager at Microsoft.