I’m a researcher in technology and social behavior. My work develops computational techniques to help understand and solve societal-scale problems such as conflict, poverty, and food insecurity. I use theory-driven investigations that rely on mining Big Data about human interactions and behavior, online experiments and surveys, crowdsourcing, natural language processing, and machine learning and statistical modeling frameworks. Supported by these novel approaches, my research advances theories of collective intelligence and complex systems and makes methodological contributions toward human-centered AI and crowd-aware system design. The core contributions of my work are relevant to computational social science, network science, social computing, and increasingly for machine intelligence and human-machine communication. My contributions in these areas are demonstrated by presentations in prime venues such as the International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), the Network Science Society (NetSci), the International Communication Association (ICA), and several well-received submissions at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) publication venues that focus on relevant areas of study. Examples include conferences on Web Science (WebSci and WebConf – formerly WWW), Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Collective Intelligence (ACM:CI). My research is generously funded by a Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious fellowship awarded to graduate students by Northwestern University for outstanding research and leadership.

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