- Counterfactual Evaluation of Peer-Review Assignment Policies (NeurIPS'23)
- Embedding Societal Values into Social Media Algorithms (JOTS'23)
- Engaging Politically Diverse Audiences on Social Media (ICWSM'22)
- Perspective-taking to Reduce Affective Polarization on Social Media (ICWSM'22)
- The Structure of Toxic Conversations on Twitter (WWW'21)
- Social Catalysts: Characterizing People Who Spark Conversations Among Others (CSCW'21)
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor at the Information School, University of Washington
- Postdoc at Stanford University
- Internships at Yahoo! Labs, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Facebook during his graduate studies
Education
- Assistant Professor at the Information School, University of Washington
- Postdoc at Stanford University, mentored by Johan Ugander
- Ph.D. from MIT in 2020, supervised by Deb Roy
- M.Sc. in Data Mining and Knowledge Management, one year in Paris and one year in Barcelona
- B.Sc. in Computer Science from Staffordshire University with First Class honors
Background
His research develops tools for analyzing large-scale social data, aiming to provide a better understanding of social structure and behaviors online while also impacting the design of digital social systems. His work often intersects with Social Networks, Machine Learning, and Causal Inference.