Dr. Henry Kudzanai Dambanemuya is an Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago’s Center for Computational Social Science (C3S2 a.k.a “The Cube”). He conducts theory-driven investigations of collective behavior in human and artificial agent populations across social and psychological systems. His research draws on online experiments, surveys, crowdsourcing, and behavioral trace data, combined with computational methods (e.g., natural language processing, machine learning, and social graph mining), to study social influence, belief updating, and collective intelligence.

His work has been presented at leading conferences in computational social science (IC2S2), network science (NetSci), and communications (ICA) and is published at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 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. Examples include international conferences on Web Science (WebSci and WebConf – formerly WWW), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Human-Computer Interaction (TOCHI), Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Collective Intelligence (CI), Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), and Body Sensor Networks (BSN).

Dr. Dambanemuya holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Conflict Studies (double major) from DePauw University, an M.A. in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute in the Keough School of Global Affairs, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Technology and Social Behavior (a dual program in Computer Science and Communication) from Northwestern University. He also brings software engineering and data science experience from RICS Software, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Chewy, Dataminr, and Microsoft Corporation. He remains active in the teaching and research communities and is committed to supporting students across their academic and industry careers.