Scholar
Bao Tran Truong
Google Scholar ID: tng76dgAAAAJ
PhD Student; Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana University
Citations & Impact
Citations
380
H-index
5
i10-index
4
Publications
11
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 1. Paper 'Quantifying the vulnerabilities of the online public square to adversarial manipulation tactics' published in PNAS Nexus, June 2024.
- 2. Finalist in The Prosocial Ranking Challenge hosted by UC Berkeley CHAI.
- 3. Presenting work 'Quantifying the effects of time delay in illegal content takedown' at IC2S2 2024.
- 4. Accepted to the 2024 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS at UPenn).
- 5. Tutorial 'Exploring Emerging Social Media' part of IC2S2 2024.
Research Experience
- Works at the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe) focusing on social media moderation. This includes developing methods to detect online misinformation, abuse, and bad actors, modeling the impacts of deterrence strategies, and designing prosocial recommendation algorithms.
Education
- Ph.D. in Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington, Advisor: Dr. Fil Menczer.
Background
- Ph.D. candidate in Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington, advised by Dr. Fil Menczer. Develops methods to understand complex networks and systems, especially the diffusion of information on social media platforms. Combines machine learning, data science, and network science techniques to gain insight from large-scale human behavior data, aiming to produce actionable insights for a better online world.
Co-authors