Research

Generally, I am interested in areas of computational social science research that are related to social media, misinformation, network science, and information diffusion. Below are some projects that I am working on currently or have worked on in the past...

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Identifying Superspreaders of Misinformation

Working in Dr. Filippo Menczer's research lab (NaN) at Indiana University Bloomington, I am developing an algorithm to identify and understand superspreaders of misinformation on Twitter. The techniques employed draw on concepts of contact tracing and the rapid spread of a contagion in a social network.

CoVaxxy Data & Dashboard

I worked with the great folks at the Observatory on Social Media to develop a robust data gathering infrastructure to create a large collection of real-time streamed, vaccine-related tweets (see the preprint for more details). Using this data, we developed the CoVaxxy dashboard - a web-page that allows anyone to visualize the relationship between COVID-19 vaccine adoption and online (mis)information.