writing

academic

• Madelyne Xiao, Jonathan Mayer. SoK: Machine Learning for Misinformation Detection. USENIX Security 2025.

• Madelyne Xiao, Andrew Sellars, Sarah Scheffler. When Anti-Fraud Laws Become a Barrier to Computer Science Research. ACM CS+Law 2025.

• Madelyne Xiao, Palak Jain, Micha Gorelick, Sarah Scheffler. Synopsis: Secure and Private Trend Inference from Encrypted Semantic Embeddings. In submission 2024.

• Madelyne Xiao, Mona Wang, Anunay Kulshrestha, Jonathan Mayer. Account Verification on Social Media: User Perceptions and Paid Enrollment. USENIX Security 2023.

• Michael Tessler, Mercer R. Brugler, John A. Burns, Nina R. Sinatra, Daniel M. Vogt, Anand Varma, Madelyne Xiao, Robert J. Wood, David F. Gruber. Ultra-gentle soft robotic fingers induce minimal transcriptomic response in a fragile marine animal. Curr. Bio. 2020 Feb; 30(4): 157-158.

• Madelyne Xiao, Mercer R. Brugler, Michael B. Broe, Luciana C. Gusmao, Marymegan Daly, Estefania Rodriguez. Mitogenomics suggests a sister relationship of Relicanthus daphneae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: incerti ordinis) within Actiniaria. Sci. Rep. 2019 Dec.

• Madelyne Xiao, Prabakaran Ponraj, Weizao Chen, Bailey Kessing, Dimiter S. Dimitrov. Deep sequencing and Circos analyses of antibody libraries reveal antigen-driven selection of Ig VH Genes during HIV-1 infection. Exp. Mol. Path. 2013 Dec; 95(3): 357-363.

non-fiction

• Goosebumps, b-horror, The New York Times Magazine, October 2021

• Wong Kar-wai, moods, blueberries, The Cut, April 2021

• Liminal space aesthetics, dead malls, a subreddit, The New Yorker online, April 2021

• Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, the New Yorker festival, The New Yorker online, October 2020

• Mitski, Be the Cowboy, distancing, The Believer Logger, October 2020

• Half-Lives, Avidly, July 2019

• Anonymous art, Toynbee tiles, House of Hades, The Believer Logger, September 2017

• Disembodying the Body, Stanford Arts Review, May 2016

• Digital Dreamscapes, Stanford Arts Review, February 2016

selected fact-checking

• “The depressive realism of ‘The Life of the Mind,’” by Jia Tolentino. newyorker.com, February 25 2021

• “What is mathematics?” by Alec Wilkinson. newyorker.com, March 2 2021

• “Why animals don’t get lost,” by Kathryn Schulz. The New Yorker, April 5 2021

• “Sweden’s pandemic experiment,” by Mallory Pickett. newyorker.com, April 6 2021

• “Robin Hood’s big gamble,” by Sheelah Kolhatkar. The New Yorker, May 17 2021 (co-fact-checked)

• “My father’s theorem,” by Dan Rockmore. newyorker.com, June 20 2021

• “Learning to ski in a country of beginners,” by Peter Hessler. The New Yorker, June 21 2021 (co-fact-checked)

• “The women who want to be priests,” by Margaret Talbot. The New Yorker, June 28 2021 (co-fact-checked)

• “Florida’s remarkable new wildlife corridor from the panhandle to the keys,” by Dexter Filkins. newyorker.com, June 30 2021

• “How a Mexican lagoon lost its colors,” by Allison Keeley. newyorker.com, July 12 2021 (co-fact-checked)

• “Why is it so hard to be rational?” by Joshua Rothman. The New Yorker, August 16 2021