I am a Ph.D. student in Technology and Social Behavior, a joint program in computer science and communications at Northwestern University. My research, supervised by Professor Ágnes Horvát, develops network-based machine learning tools to enhance crowd-aware system design. Prior to Northwestern, I was a software engineer and data scientist for Liberty Mutual Insurance and Chewy, Inc.

Recent News

• May, 2018: Promoting Peace through Data Science, DePauw Alumni Profile.
• February, 2018: Study Shows Social Media an Effective Tool for Predicting Voting Outcomes, Notre Dame News & Science X News.

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Publications

Dambanemuya, H.K. and Horvát, E-Á. Harnessing Collective Intelligence in Peer-to-Peer Lending, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Web Science (to appear)

Nigam, A., Dambanemuya, H.K., Joshi, M. and Chawla, N.V., 2017. Harvesting Social Signals to Inform Peace Processes Implementation and Monitoring. Big Data, 5(4), pp.337-355. pdf

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Projects

• Harnessing Collective Intelligence in Online Capital Markets
• Auditing Smark Speakers (Alexa, Siri, Google Home, Cortana) for News Quality and Mis-Information
• Detecting Inter-Group Polarization in Peace Processes through Computational Linguistic Analysis