Dr. Oliver L. Haimson is the author of the 2025 book Trans Technologies. Dr. Haimson is Director of the Community Research on Identity and Technology (CRIT) Lab, Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies and affiliate faculty with the Digital Studies Institute (DSI). He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Henry Russel Award, and multiple Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine and his B.S. in Economics at Carnegie Mellon University.