Associate Professor (research-track) in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania
Director of the Computational Social Listening Lab
Focuses on building predictive models and conversational agents to uncover insights into individual and community health outcomes and psychological states
Aims to supplement clinical diagnoses and enable early, personalized interventions to improve treatment and well-being
Develops computational models using large-scale user-generated text, image, and mobile sensor data to study geospatial, cross-cultural, and temporal aspects of human behavior
Recent work examines how conditions like loneliness, stress, and depression manifest on social media and how digital behaviors vary across cultures