Publications have appeared in major academic journals including Nature Human Behavior, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Featured in media outlets such as Nature News, Times Higher Education, Physics World, and New Scientist.
Research Experience
Assistant Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi, with research projects involving social science studies in the fields of data science, big data, and applied machine learning.
Education
PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in 2017; MSc in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Background
Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, focusing on using data science techniques to study social phenomena, particularly in the Science of Science. Interested in the social and economic benefits of diversity, as well as the dynamics of social interaction and cohesion, framing social science problems in the contexts of data science, big data, and applied machine learning.