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
- Apr 3: Rachael Tatman from Kaggle is visiting and gives a public talk on “Putting Together a Data Science Portfolio”
- Mar 29: Jana gives a keynote talk at DHD2019
- Dec 5: Jana co-chairs Workshop on Biases in Social Computing Data and Technology at EuroCSS 2018
- Dec 5: Jana gives keynote talk at 1st Workshop on Reframing Research at EuroCSS 2018
- Dec 3: Jana gives keynote talk on Responsible Social Computing at Annual Conference of DGNet
- Nov 13: Ly won the ASIS&T 2018 Student Design Competition
- Nov 10: Shub's paper, Expertise as an aspect of author contributions, won Best Student Paper Award at Workshop on Informetric and Scientometrics Research (Metrics 2018), ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting