Martin Saveski
Scholar

Martin Saveski

Google Scholar ID: M3D870YAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, University of Washington
computational social sciencesocial networkscausal inferencedata mining
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,053
 
H-index
13
 
i10-index
18
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
7
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Community Notes Reduce Engagement With and Diffusion of False Information Online (PNAS'25)
  • - Supernotes: Driving Consensus in Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking (WWW'25)
  • - Social Media Algorithms Can Shape Affective Polarization via Exposure to Antidemocratic Attitudes and Partisan Animosity (Arxiv'24)
  • - Reranking Social Media Feeds: A Practical Guide for Field Experiments (Arxiv'24)
  • - Off-policy Evaluation Beyond Overlap: Sharp Partial Identification Under Smoothness (ICML'24)
  • - 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.