Jeffrey W. Lockhart

Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley

Publications

Preprints

Lockhart, Jeffrey W., Sourati, Jamshid, Shi, Feng, Evans, James (2026). “China leads scientific trends; the West launches new ones”.

Biliotti, C., Riccaboni, M., Lockhart, J. W., Evans, J. A. (2026). “The Innovation Recognition Paradox: How Science Undervalues the Boundary-Crossing Work Women Produce”.

Lee, Edward D., Kempes, Christopher P., Laubichler, Manfred D., Hamilton, Marcus J., Lockhart, Jeffrey W., Neffke, Frank, Youn, Hyejin, Arroyo, José Ignacio, Servedio, Vito D. P., Wang, Dashun, Trancik, Jessika, Evans, James, Yang, Vicky Chuqiao, Cappelli, Veronica R., Ortega, Ernesto, Yin, Yian, West, Geoffrey B. (2025). “Synthesis of innovation and obsolescence”.

Forthcoming

King, Molly M., Lockhart, Jeffrey W. (forthcoming). “Sharing Knowledge Openly: Author Gender, Race/Ethnicity, & Feminist Science”. Gender & Society. Preprint

Kleinherenbrink, Annelies, Radhika Radhakrishnan, Marion Boulicault, Maggie Delano, Jeffrey W. Lockhart, Madeleine Pape, Ula N. Ratajec. (forthcoming). “Beyond the hype of AI as a panacea for women’s health”. npj Women’s Health Preprint

2025

Lockhart, Jeffrey W., Fuentes, Agustín, Rippon, Gina, Eliot, Lise (2025). “Not so binary or generalizable: Brain sex differences with artificial neural networks”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(2), e2411917121.

Lockhart, Jeffrey W. (2025). “Gender, Sex, and the Constraints of Machine Learning Methods”. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning, 327–342. Preprint

Lockhart, Jeffrey W. (2025). “Cosmopolitan Scientists: How a Global Policy of Commercialization Became Japanese”. Contemporary Sociology, 54(6), 519–521.

Smith, Thomas M., Lockhart, Jeffrey W. (2025). ““This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without…”: The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books”. Socius, 11, 23780231251378803.

Lockhart, Jeffrey W., King, Molly M., Munsch, Christin (2025). “Who Authors Social Science? Demographics and the Production of Knowledge”. Social Currents, 12(1), 17–29. Preprint SI

2024

Lockhart, Jeffrey W. (2024). “A Kaleidoscope of Identities: Reflexivity, Routine, and the Fluidity of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality”. Contemporary Sociology, 53(2), 156–158.

2023

Lockhart, Jeffrey W. (2023). “Because the machine can discriminate: How machine learning serves and transforms biological explanations of human difference”. Big Data & Society, 10(1), 20539517231155060. Preprint

Lockhart, Jeffrey W. (2023). “The Gay Right: A Framework for Understanding Right Wing LGBT Organizations”. Journal of Homosexuality, 70(13), 3024–3050. Preprint

Lockhart, Jeffrey W., King, Molly M., Munsch, Christin (2023). “Name-Based Demographic Inference and the Unequal Distribution of Misrecognition”. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(July 2023), 1084–1095. Preprint

Lee, Katharine MN., Rushovich, Tamara, Gompers, Annika, Boulicault, Marion, Worthington, Steven, Lockhart, Jeffrey W., Richardson, Sarah S. (2023). “A gender hypothesis of sex disparities in adverse drug events”. Social Science & Medicine, 339(2023), 116385.

Rushovich, Tamara, Gompers, Annika, Lockhart, Jeffrey W., Omidiran, Ife, Worthington, Steven, Richardson, Sarah S., Lee, Katharine M. N. (2023). “Adverse Drug Events by Sex After Adjusting for Baseline Rates of Drug Use”. JAMA Network Open, 6(8), e2329074.

2021

Lockhart, Jeffrey W. (2021). “Paradigms of Sex Research and Women in STEM”. Gender & Society, 35(3), 449–475. Preprint SI

Lockhart, Jeffrey W, Jacobs, Abigail Z (2021). “Scientific Argument with Supervised Learning”. NeurIPS 2021 AI for Science Workshop.

2020

Lockhart, Jeffrey W (2020). “‘A Large and Long Standing Body’: Historical Authority in the Science of Sex”. Far Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories, 359–386. Preprint

Schwemmer, Carsten, Knight, Carly, Bello-Pardo, Emily D., Oklobdzija, Stan, Schoonvelde, Martijn, Lockhart, Jeffrey W. (2020). “Diagnosing Gender Bias in Image Recognition Systems”. Socius, 6, 1–17. Replication materials

Azari, Abigail R., Lockhart, Jeffrey W., Liemohn, Michael W., Jia, Xianzhe (2020). “Incorporating Physical Knowledge Into Machine Learning for Planetary Space Physics”. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 7, 36. Preprint

2016

Weiss, G. M., Lockhart, J. W., Pulickal, T. T., McHugh, P. T., Ronan, I. H., Timko, J. L. (2016). “Actitracker: A Smartphone-Based Activity Recognition System for Improving Health and Well-Being”. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), 682–688.

2014

Lockhart, Jeffrey W, Weiss, Gary M (2014). “Limitations with Activity Recognition Methodology & Data Sets”. UbiComp ‘14 Adjunct, 747–756.

Lockhart, Jeffrey W, Weiss, Gary M (2014). “The Benefits of Personalized Smartphone-Based Activity Recognition Models”. Proceedings of the 2014 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 614–622.

Weiss, Gary M, Lockhart, Jeffrey W, Pulickal, Tony T, McHugh, Paul T, Ronan, Isaac H, Timko, Jessica L (2014). “Actitracker: A Smartphone-based Activity Recognition System for Improving Health and Well-Being”. SIGKDD Exploration Newsletter.

Abraham, Sarah, Lockhart, Jeffrey, Tan, Sarah, Turner, Rafael, Kim, Young-Jin (2014). “Identifying At-Risk Mothers for Targeted Interventions”. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

2013

Weiss, Gary M, Nathan, Ashwin, Kropp, J B, Lockhart, Jeffrey W (2013). “WagTag: a dog collar accessory for monitoring canine activity levels”. Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication, 405–414.

2012

Lockhart, Jeffrey W, Pulickal, Tony T, Weiss, Gary M (2012). “Applications of mobile activity recognition”. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing - UbiComp ‘12, 1054–1058.

Weiss, Gary M, Lockhart, Jeffrey W (2012). “A comparison of alternative client/server architectures for ubiquitous mobile sensor-based applications”. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing - UbiComp ‘12, 721–724.

Weiss, Gary M, Lockhart, Jeffrey W (2012). “The impact of personalization on smartphone-based activity recognition”. Proceedings of the Activity Context Representation Workshop, 98–104.

Lockhart, Jeffrey W (2012). “Gendered Classrooms and Gendered Attire: Doing Gender on a College Campus”. Fordham Undergraduate Research Journal, 2, 32–36.

2011

Lockhart, Jeffrey W, Weiss, Gary M, Xue, Jack C, Gallagher, Shaun T, Grosner, Andrew B, Pulickal, Tony T (2011). “Design considerations for the WISDM smart phone-based sensor mining architecture”. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data - SensorKDD ‘11, 25–33.

Weiss, Gary M, Lockhart, Jeffrey W (2011). “Identifying user traits by mining smart phone accelerometer data”. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data - SensorKDD ‘11, 61–69.

Lockhart, Jeffrey W (2011). “Mobile Sensor Data Mining”. Fordham Undergraduate Research Journal, 1, 67–68.