I am an Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences (the iSchool) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I lead the Social Computing lab. We focus on Human-Centered Data Science, Social Computing/ Computational Social Science, and Responsible Computing. We integrate and advance methods from network science, natural language processing and machine learning with theories from the social sciences and humanities to study interaction-based and information-based systems. Currently, we are working on projects related to 1) studying consequences of biases in data, technology and human decision making, 2) validating classic social science theories in contemporary settings, 3) impact assessment, 4) crisis informatics, and 5) data governance/ FATE (fairness, accountability, transparency, ethics). I got my PhD from Carnegie Mellon, School of Computer Science.
News from our lab
- Nov 3-7: EMNLP-IJCNLP '19 paper by Jiang M et al.: TIGEr: Text-to-Image Grounding for Image Caption Evaluation
- Oct 1-4: Jana and Shadi Rezapour at Grace Hopper, Shadi presenting poster on our impact assessment research
- Sept 25-27: Jana giving a keynote at Conference of the Academy of Sociology on Digital Societies
- Sept 17: Shub and Jana teaching tutorial on “Advanced machine learning for information extraction from tweets” at ACM Hypertext 2019, Hof, Germany
- Aug 27-30: ASONAM '19 Social Influence workshop paper by Avram MV, Mishra S, Parulian N, & Diesner J: Adversarial perturbations to manipulate the perception of power and influence in networks
- Aug 24: Shadi Rezapour accepted as a mentor for the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program @ Illinois (URAP@Illinois)
- Aug 22: Garrick Sherman successfully defended his PhD thesis, “Document expansion and language model re-estimation for information retrieval”