Colin Fitzpatrick Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, CA, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

Working within a centralized, quantitatively specialized team (Demography and Survey Science), I conduct monetization research to inform business decisions at the platform and company level. Recent topics have included: (1) Developing company-level decision metrics on ad delivery systems across Facebook and Instagram, in partnership with data science; (2).

Menlo Park, CA, US

As a member of the Survey Science team in the Demography and Survey Science group, I study and manage the various survey platforms Facebook, Inc manages. I also conduct original research on topics such as sampling efficiency, item psychometrics, and survey fatigue, in order to make collection and analysis of survey data more efficient, valid, reliable, and.

I use mixed methods to understand people and their experiences and attitudes of ads on Facebook. I measure not only how people's experiences with ads inform their perceptions of Facebook the product, but also Facebook the company.

Evanston, IL, US

• Conducted background research and informal interviews to design counterbalanced experiment on effects of engineering and design decisions on impression formation online
• Built, tested, and iterated on a swipe-gesture based hybrid app for data collection
• Manage 2 research assistants and finances; keep project on time and on budget ($1500)
• Validate within-subject experiment results through statistical analyses; contribute to the fields of social psychology and human computer interaction through publishing

Evanston, IL, US

• Conduct qualitative (interview study, n=22) and quantitative (dataset of 75k profiles) research and analysis of location-based real time social apps for men who have sex with men to answer questions around how people.
• Conduct repeated measure within-subject counterbalanced experiment on the relationship between spatial footprint (where someone has been) and whether or not a stranger would like to get to know them. Findings presented.
• Other responsibilities include: recruit participants, manage project timelines, train research assistants in research process, build hybrid web apps for data collection

Evanston, IL, US

• Developed 35 interactive 45-minute Python programming lessons to introduce abstract computer science concepts to middle schoolers (3 classes, ~18 students each)
• Managed 10 small teams, ~3 students each, in building robots to teach the design process
• Communicated graduate-level research to novice audiences (teachers and students)

Evanston, IL, US

• Developed and managed research project timeline and interview protocol for design-based research project. Findings presented at DIS 2014.
• Worked as a participant observer with novice civic designers using a computer supported group critique platform (https://loft.io/) for their social innovation projects

• Collaborated with Messenger location-sharing product team (12 members) in identifying feature issues for research to inform team and product direction
• Queried product data to identify population sample and independently ran interviews (n=18) and surveys (n=2,000) to understand feature issue; reported findings to team
• Finished intern project early and completed a 2-week remote interview study for Instagram product team (6 members), confirming earlier A/B test of new user flow

Madison, WI, US

• Developed and managed course blog and interactive map to enhance learning
• Collaborated with colleagues to develop peer teaching evaluation rounds
• Taught three, 50 minute classes once a week, instructed 68 students; improved students’ learning experience through soliciting feedback throughout the semester.

Providence, Rhode Island, US

Teaching assistant for intro to music history, baroque and classic era music history, intro to music theory (non-majors), and music theory I & II (for majors).

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Technology And Social Behavior

Master'S, Ethnomusicology

A.B., Ethnomusicology