Scholar
Daniel E. Acuna
Google Scholar ID: GAi23ssAAAAJ
Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,304
H-index
20
i10-index
28
Publications
20
Co-authors
36
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications in top venues including Nature Communications, PLOS ONE, AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, and FAT*
- Work featured in Nature News, Nature Podcast, The Chronicle of Higher Education, NPR, and The Scientist
- Developed bioscience-scale automated tool for detecting figure reuse (BioArXiv)
- Published influential study on mentorship and academic success in Nature Communications
- Co-organizes Science of Science Summer School (S4), Computational Research Integrity Conference (CRI-CONF), and related competitions
Background
- Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Leads the Science of Science and Computational Discovery Lab
- Works in science of science (a subfield of computational social science) and A.I. for science
- Aims to understand mechanisms, historical relationships, and optimization opportunities in knowledge production
- Applies Machine Learning and A.I. to large-scale publication and citation datasets to improve success in publishing, collaboration, and funding
- Recently focused on biases in artificial intelligence and methods to detect them
- Develops web-based tools to enhance literature search, peer review, and scientific fraud detection
