Core Faculty

Eytan Adar

Associate Professor
search, social networks evolution, learning, meme and rumor spread, programming, text production and consumption

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Ceren Budak

Associate Professor
Computational Social Science with social, political, and policy implications

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Dallas Card

Assistant Professor
making machine learning more reliable and responsible, using machine learning and natural language processing to learn about society from text

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Paramveer Dhillon

Assistant Professor
Empirical measurements (both causal and predictive) from big data

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Barbara Ericson

Assistant Professor
computing education, learning analytics, artificial intelligence, and user experience

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Eric Gilbert

John Derby Evans Associate Professor
Sociotechnology, with a research focus on building and studying social media systems

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Libby Hemphill

Associate Professor
Social media, civic engagement, automated moderation techniques, fan studies, political communication, digital curation and data stewardship

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Abigail Jacobs

Assistant Professor
Structure, governance, and inequality in sociotechnical systems; measurement; and social networks

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David Jurgens

Assistant Professor
natural language processing; computational sociolinguistics; identity, interaction, and relationships

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Qiaozhu Mei

Professor
data mining, machine learning, and information retrieval, with connections to web search, social computing, finance, and health informatic

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Paul Resnick

Michael D Cohen Collegiate Professor, Associate Dean of Research
Diversity in news, rumor spreading, online-offline behavior

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Daniel Romero

Associate Professor
empirical and theoretical analysis of social and Information networks, information diffusion, network evolution, and user interactions

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Tanya Rosenblat

Associate Professor
experimental economics, the effects of physical attractiveness in the labor market, trust in societies and social learning

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Grant Schoenebeck

Associate Professor
theory, social networks, political divisiveness and polarization, information elicitation mechanism

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Sarita Schoenebeck

Associate Professor
social computing, social media, HCI, parents, youth, boundary setting

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Chris Teplovs

Lecturer IV
Data science, learning analytics, automated text analysis, machine learning, statistics and Big Data.

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Misha Teplitskiy

Assistant Professor
How organizations and communities generate knowledge, science of science

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Sabina Tomkins

Assistant Professor
Developing machine learning to advance public policy

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VG Vinod Vydiswaran

Associate Professor
mining and analyzing health information from multiple sources, including scientific literature, community health forums, and social and information networks.

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Justine Zhang

Assistant Professor
natural language processing, computational social science, conversation

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Postdocs

PhD Students

Aparna Ananthasubramaniam

advisor(s): David Jurgens, Daniel Romero
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Lia Bozarth

advisor(s): Ceren Budak
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Minje Choi

advisor(s): Ceren Budak, David Jurgens, Daniel Romero
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Katie Cunningham

advisor(s): Barbara Ericson, Mark Guzdial
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Cristina Garbacea

advisor(s): Qiaozhu Mei
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Shiqing (Licia) He

advisor(s): Eytan Adar
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Jane Im

advisor(s): Eric Gilbert
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Hayden Le

advisor(s): Oliver Haimson, Libby Hemphill
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Elsie Lee

advisor(s): Eytan Adar, Matt Kay
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Linfeng Li

advisor(s): Tanya Rosenblat
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Danaja Maldeniya

advisor(s): Daniel Romero
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Julia Mendelsohn

advisor(s): Ceren Budak
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Jiaxin Pei

advisor(s): David Jurgens
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Chanda Phelan

advisor(s): Paul Resnik
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Christopher Quarles

advisor(s): Ceren Budak, Paul Resnick
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Agrima Seth

advisor(s): Eytan Adar, Ceren Budak
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Zhuofeng Wu

advisor(s): Qiaozhu Mei, Daniel Romero
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Shiyan Yan

advisor(s): Qiaozhu Mei
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Teng Ye

advisor(s): Qiaozhu Mei
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Yichi Zhang

advisor(s): Sarita Schoenebeck, Daniel Romero
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Xinyan Zhao

advisor(s): Qiaozhu Mei, Vinod Vydiswaran
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Alumni

Lindsay Blackwell

advisor(s): Sarita Schoenebeck, Cliff Lampe
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Graduated 2019

Now at: UX Researcher at Facebook

Wei Ai

advisor(s): Qiaozhu Mei
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Graduated 2019

Now at: Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies (UMD iSchool)

Sam Carton

advisor(s): Qiaozhu Mei and Paul Resnick
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Graduated 2019

Now at: Assistant Professor of computer science at the University of New Hampshire

Yue Wang

advisor(s): Qiaozhu Mei
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Graduated 2019

Now at: Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Tiago Cunha

advisor(s): Daniel Romero, David Jurgens
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Graduated

Tawfiq Ammari

advisor(s): Sarita Schoenebeck
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Graduated

Now at: Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University

Hao Peng

advisor(s): Ceren Budak, Daniel Romero
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Graduated

Now at: Postdoc at Northwestern University

Jiaqi Ma

advisor(s): Qiaozhu Mei
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Graduated

Now at: Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Carol Moser

advisor(s): Paul Resnick, Sarita Schoenebeck
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Graduated

Ashwin Rajadesingan

advisor(s): Ceren Budak, Paul Resnick
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Graduated

Now at: Assistant Professor in the Communications Department at the University of Texas, Austin

Ed Platt

advisor(s): Daniel Romero
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Graduated


Affliated Faculty

UMSI is home to a number of faculty working in areas releated to Computational Social Science and we frequently collaborate with these faculty here.

Mark Ackerman

collaborative technologies and pervasive computing for health, crowd-sourcing, and memories; online communities and other forms of social computing, privacy, and information access
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Kevyn Collns-Thompson

information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and machine learning
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Nicole Ellison

computer-mediated communication, mediated interpersonal interaction, self-presentation, use of social media in organizations, relationship initiation and maintenance in online contexts, virtual communities, social network sites, online dating sites, educational uses of new technologies, college access and social media.
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Cliff Lampe

social and technical structures of large scale technology mediated communication
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Joyojeet Pal

the use of social media in mainstream politics, specifically around political brand building in India
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Christian Sandvig

the implications of algorithmic systems that filter and curate culture
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Florian Schaub

privacy, human-computer interaction, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and the Internet of Things
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