I study the social structure of science from both normative and descriptive perspectives.  

On the normative side, I conceptualize biases and emerging norms in peer review.  Some of this work motivated changes to peer review practices at the 2013 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and 2016 Neural Information Processing Systems conferences (see Shah 2022) and inspired the development of a new algorithm to measure bias in peer review at the 2022 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (see Noothigattu, Shah, and Procaccia 2021).

On the empirical side, I have studied Black-white disparities in grant proposal scoring and funding at the National Institutes of Health, gender disparities in funding at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and gender homophily in co-authorship across the JSTOR corpus.

My research has been published in venues across fields (e.g., Science, Science Advances, The Lancet, Plos One, Philosophy of Science) and covered by the Chronicle of Higher Education, STAT, and Chemistry World.  My scholarship has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.  I'm grateful to have held a Career Enhancement Fellowship (funded by the Mellon Foundation and administered by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars) and a Society of Scholars Fellowship (Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington).

I received the Philosophy of Science Association's Prize in Philosophy of Science & Race and (with Elena Erosheva) First Prize for most creative submission to NIH's Peer Review Challenge.

I am a Director at Rapid Science and previously served as an Advisory Board member for the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines and ASAPbio.  

At the University of Washington, I am a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Adjunct Professor in the Information School (iSchool), and Affiliate Faculty with the Center for an Informed Public, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, eScience Institute, and Society + Technology Program.  I am a member of the AI Governance Committee (advisory to the Provost) and served on the Steering Committee for the UW Faculty 2050 Report (compiled by UW Faculty Senate leadership and faculty in collaboration with the Provost and Board of Deans & Chancellors).