Ágnes Horvát, Associate Professor
Agnes’s research aims to make the hyperconnected and AI-infused Web more efficient, equitable, and inspiring for scientists, entrepreneurs, and creatives. Capitalizing on her background in physics, computer science, film and media, her work uses a multidisciplinary approach encompassing large-scale data analyses, online experiments, behavioral surveys, and AI to uncover how online spaces operate and can be designed to better serve people.
Miriam Schirmer, Postdoc
Miriam is a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on the impact of AI on misinformation in science. She also conducts research on using natural language processing (NLP) for violence detection and mental health. Miriam holds a Ph.D. in Computational Social Science from the Technical University of Munich. Her academic background is multidisciplinary, with undergraduate degrees in Psychology, Political Science, and History, along with a master’s degree in Criminology.
Katherine O’Toole, PhD candidate in Technology and Social Behavior
Katherine’s research focused on the effects that technology and computing have on larger social networks and group behavior, as well as the ability of technology to connect us and change the way ideas are developed and disseminated. Her research focuses on developing a better understanding of creativity, especially within existing social contexts and networks, and applying this knowledge to computationally model creative processes.
Maalvika Bhat, PhD candidate in Technology and Social Behavior
Maalvika Bhat is a PhD student interested in examining how big data and algorithms are creating and exacerbating disparities in infrastructure, systems, and social networks, to eventually help in reducing them. Maalvika holds a BS in Computing from Olin College of Engineering.
Jose Cordova, PhD candidate in Technology and Social Behavior
Jose is interested in analyzing the emergence of collective intelligence and understanding shat types of networks structures and communication processes allow crowds to be better decision makers. He holds a BEn. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Manchester and a MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Julia Barnett, PhD candidate in Technology and Social Behavior
Julia’s research interests lie in algorithmic ethics and impact, transparency, reducing the socio-technical harms of algorithmic systems, and deep generative applications in social contexts. Recently she has been working on various projects in the algorithmic impact space and has been examining how to identify data attribution in generative music models to empower creators and users to move from ignorant appropriation to informed creation.
Haohan Shi, PhD candidate in Media, Technology, and Society
Haohan is broadly interested in the science of science, misinformation, online democracy, computational social science, and AI for social good. His current work focuses on advancing online scholarly communication and promoting the democratization of science through digital science dissemination. He holds an M.A. in Computational Social Science from the University of Chicago.
Nick Ornstein, PhD candidate in Technology and Social Behavior
Nick studies online behavior at scale to inform social theory, and in parallel, applies social theory to build a better digital commons. He uses network science and natural language processing methods to address questions across AI-mediated communication and the dynamics of scientific collaboration and production. Before graduate school, he earned a BSc in Neuroscience from the University of Chicago, conducted HCI research as a Fulbright Scholar at LMU Munich, and worked as a data analyst.
Alumni
- Henry Dambanemuya, University of Chicago
- Sohyeon Hwang, Princeton University
- Yulin Yu, Northwestern University
- Sachita Nishal, Northwestern University
- Nick Hagar, The New York Times
- Richard Zhang, Northwestern University
- Jack Bandy, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Rod Abhari, Northwestern University
- Zach Gibson, Syracuse University
- Kyosuke Tanaka, Aarhus University
- Halin Li, UT Austin
- Yixue Wang, Walmart
- Aymeric Punel, United Airlines
- Eunseo (Dana) Choi, OECD
- Igor Zakhlebin, Huurrek
- Gaoyuan (Louis) Huang, Reddit
- Isabella Loaiza-Saa, MIT Media Lab
- Melanie De Vincentiis, Chemonics International
- Haomin Lin, University of Washington