Papers published in Communications of the ACM, FAccT, CSCW, ICWSM, New Media and Society, npj digital medicine, and other journals and conferences. Supported by the National Science Foundation, Northwestern's Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI), Cisco Research, Google, and an Amazon Research Award. Student Hanlin Li published two papers at ICWSM about measuring and making more visible moderator labor in Reddit communities, one of which won a Best Paper Honorable Mention award.
Research Experience
Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota, working with other HCI faculty in the GroupLens lab. Research focuses on using digital trace data from millions of interactions on social media to identify high-risk behaviors in online communities, while developing more ethical and compassionate research practices for ML and computer science.
Education
Received a Ph.D. in Human Centered Computing at Georgia Tech with Munmun De Choudhury, and did a postdoc at Northwestern University, working with Darren Gergle.
Background
Research interests include building and critically evaluating human-centered machine learning (HCAI) for high-risk health behaviors in online communities. Special interest in severe eating disorders, opioid use disorder and recovery, and suicidal ideation and crisis. Broadly interested in topics related to mental health in online communities, such as moderation and governance, ethics of research in online communities, and AI for social good.