Scholar
Pranav Goel
Google Scholar ID: LOXt_eYAAAAJ
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University
Citations & Impact
Citations
530
H-index
10
i10-index
11
Publications
20
Co-authors
45
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publications:
- - “Measuring Scalar Constructs in Social Science with LLMs” accepted at EMNLP 2025
- - “DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter” published in Nature Scientific Data
- - “Using co-sharing to identify use of mainstream news for promoting potentially misleading narratives” published in Nature Human Behaviour
- - “Express Yourself (Ideologically): Legislators’ Ideal Points Across Audiences” accepted at the Journal of Politics
- - “Locating the Asymmetry in Information Flow between Local and National Media on Transgender Discourses” accepted at the Special Issue of Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
- - Presentations: Multiple presentations at academic conferences such as PolNet-PaCSS 2025, IC2S2 2025, Trust and Safety Research Conference 2024, etc.
Research Experience
- - Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute
- - Work Experience: Conducted research at the CLIP lab, University of Maryland
- - Research Projects: Involves framing analysis in news and social media, misinformation narratives, American congressional politics, etc.
Education
- - PhD: University of Maryland, Computer Science, advised by Philip Resnik
- - Time: PhD obtained
- - Dissertation Title: Analyzing communicative choices to understand their motivations, context-based variation, and social consequences
Background
- - Research Interests: Computational Social Science, Text-as-Data applications, Natural Language Processing
- - Professional Field: Using web and text data as a potent digital trace of societal dynamics
- - Bio: Currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, advised by David Lazer. His research interests include building a cross-platform understanding of online information consumption and investigating the impact of generative AI on information-seeking behavior.
Miscellany
- - Personal Background: Grew up in New Delhi, India
