Co-Editor-in-Chief of EPJ Data Science since 2023; recipient of the Best Paper Award at ACM GoodIT; organizer or co-organizer of multiple workshops and lectures at international conferences.
Research Experience
Currently a Senior Research Scientist at the ISI Foundation in Turin, Italy; previously a scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute, part of the Social Computing Group working on computational social science, especially as applied to tracking real-life health signals; post-doctoral researcher at Yahoo Research Barcelona, part of Web Mining and User Engagement groups.
Background
A researcher in the field of Data Science for Social Impact and Sustainability. Her work focuses on using social media and AI to understand how people make decisions about their health and well-being, how science is communicated to the public, and the role of technology in mediating these processes, all contextualized within the social, political, and cultural spheres.
Miscellany
Active on LinkedIn, Google Scholar, DBLP, Twitter; email: yelena.mejova@gmail.com