Nathan T. Bartley
Independent researcher · decentralized social media, recommender systems, trust and safety · ntbartley (at) gmail.com
I received my PhD from the University of Southern California, where my research focused on recommender systems and exposure bias in online social networks. I’m currently building youth-AI safety benchmarks for LLMs with Apgard AI. I am also pursuing independent research on decentralized social media platforms, particularly within the Bluesky/AT Protocol ecosystem.
news
| Dec 01, 2024 | Got my degree! |
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| Sep 07, 2024 | Defended! Thank you for the support of my advisor Kristina, and my wonderful committee Fred, Emilio & Mike. |
latest posts
| Jan 04, 2026 | Setting up your own Ollama LLM agent |
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| Oct 25, 2021 | Recovering MySQL data from .MYI, .MYD, .FRM files |
| Oct 19, 2021 | Getting VSCode C++ to work on MacOS |
selected publications
- Auditing algorithmic bias on twitterIn Proceedings of the 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021, 2021
- Evaluating content exposure bias in social networksIn Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2023
- Auditing Exposure Bias on Social Media for a Healthier Online DiscourseIn Workshop Proceedings of the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2024