I combine computation with crowds—large groups of people connecting and coordinating online—to create systems that are powered by collective intelligence. My work in human-computer interaction embeds crowd work into interactive systems, creates new crowds by designing social computing systems, and mines crowd data for interactive applications.

I am a final-year graduate student at MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. I work with Professors David Karger and
Rob Miller.

Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside best student paper award Bernstein, M., Little, G., Miller, R., Hartmann, B., Ackerman, M., Karger, D., Crowell, D., and Panovich, K. UIST 2010. [PDF] [Video] [Software] [Slides]

Crowds in Two Seconds: Enabling Realtime Crowd-Powered Interfaces Bernstein, M., Brandt, J., Miller, R., and Karger, D. UIST 2011. [PDF] [Video] [Slides]

4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community best paper award Bernstein, M., Monroy-Hernández, A., Harry, D., André, P., Panovich, K., and Vargas, G. ICWSM 2011. [PDF] [Slides] [Talk]