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Lyle H. Ungar
Computational Social Science
World Well-Being Project (WWBP)
Social Media Language Analysis
Lyle Ungar is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds additional appointments in Psychology, Bioengineering, and the Wharton School. A central figure in Computational Social Science, Dr. Ungar’s research focuses on devel...
Alessandro Flammini
Statistical Mechanics
Complex Networks
Computational Social Science
I am a professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering and a member of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University, Bloomington. My background is in Statistical Mechanics, and my research interests are in the area of complex netwo...
Diyi Yang
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Computational Social Science
Socially Aware NLP Systems
Diyi Yang is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Stanford University. Professor Yang's research interests are Computational Social Science and Natural Language Processing. Her research goal is to understand the social aspects of language and then build socially aware NL...
Munmun De Choudhury
Computational Social Science
Social Digital Footprint Analysis
Well-being Modeling from Social Data
Munmun De Choudhury is a professor at the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech. Munmun’s research interests are in computational social science, with a focus on reasoning about personal and societal well-being from social digital footprints.
Johan Bollen
Computational Social Science
Social Complexity
Health Informatics
Johan Bollen is a professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science at Indiana University. He was formerly a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2005-2009, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion University from 2002 to...
Eric Gilbert
Social Computing Systems
Rebooting Social Media
Computational Social Science
Eric Gilbert is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Prior to Michigan, he was on the faculty in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Currently, he is on sabbatical as a Visiting Scholar with the Rebooting Social Media initiative, part of H...
Soroush Vosoughi
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Large Language Model (LLM) Alignment
Interpretability Methods for LLMs
I lead the Minds, Machine, and Society group in Dartmouth's Department of Computer Science. Underpinning my work is a profound interest in developing computational models of cognition, employing language as a primary conduit. At a high level, our research primarily focuses on na...
Brendan O'Connor
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Computational Social Science
Racial Bias in NLP
Brendan O'Connor is an associate professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who works in the intersection of computational social science and natural language processing (NLP) — studying how social fa...
David Jurgens
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Computational Social Science
Social Behavior Prediction
David Jurgens is an associate professor jointly in the School of Information and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He holds a PhD from the University of California Los Angeles and was a postdoctoral scholar in the Departm...
Matthew Purver
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Dialogue Systems
Semantics and Pragmatics
Computational linguistics / natural language processing
Semantics and pragmatics of natural language
Dialogue modelling and dialogue systems
Mental health and dialogue
Social media analysis
Computational social science
Arjun Mukherjee
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Deceptive Opinion Spam Detection
Sentiment Analysis
Dr. Mukherjee received his Ph.D. in 2014. His research spans data and web mining, natural language processing, large language models, computational social science, sentiment analysis, and opinion spam detection. His work has been published in leading venues such as ACL, EMNLP, KD...
Walid Magdy
Computational Social Science (CSS)
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Computational Social Science
I am a faculty member at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC), part of the School of Informatics, the Univeristy of Edinburgh. My main expertise is in computational social science (CSS) and natural language processing (NLP). I hold my PhD degree from the S...
Budak, Ceren
computational social science
misinformation dynamics
cross-partisan animosity
Dr. Ceren Budak is an Associate Professor of Information in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and also serves as a Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from th...
Ming Yin
crowdsourcing and social computing
human-AI interaction
computational social science
Ming Yin is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, Purdue University. Her research broadly connects to the fields of human-computer interaction, applied artificial intelligence and machine learning, computational social science, and behavioral sciences. She...
Anne Rogers
Computational Analysis and Public Policy (MSCAPP)
Computational Social Science
Policy Informatics
I am the co-founder and current Academic Director from Computer Science of the Computational Analysis and Public Policy Masters Program (MSCAPP), which is a joint effort of the Harris School of Public Policy and the Department of Computer Science.
I received the Llewellyn John...
Tharindu Ranasinghe
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
NLP for Social Good
Computational Social Science
My research focuses on developing Machine Learning (ML) approaches for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, particularly emphasising NLP for Social Good. My work has various applications, such as computational social science, digital humanities and text adaptation. I have pub...
Tristan Caulfield
Modelling and Simulation
Game Theory
Computational Social Science
I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at UCL. My background is in Computer Science and Economics, and I develop and apply tools and approaches from modelling & simulation, economics & game theory, computational social science & statistics to understand ho...
Hang Jiang
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Machine Learning for Social Behavior
AI for Reducing Polarization
Hang Jiang is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
Jiang’s work takes an interdisciplinary approach to a core question: How can AI systems foster a healthy, c...
Dmitry Zinoviev
Complex Network Analysis
Computational Social Science
Information Propagation in Digital Communities
Dr. Dmitry Zinoviev is a Professor at Suffolk University with a prolific background in Complex Network Analysis, Data Science, and Computational Social Science. He holds a PhD and MS from SUNY at Stony Brook, as well as an MS from Lomonosov Moscow State University.
His work si...
Siddharth Krishnan
web-mining
computational social science
cascade propagation modeling
Siddharth is a new faculty in the department of computer science (College of Computing and Informatics) at UNCC. His research interests are in web-mining, data analytics, computational social science, and applied machine learning with a primary emphasis on analyzing, characterizi...