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Xi Song

Xi Song is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Demography at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research uses statistical, demographic, and computational techniques to understand how patterns of social inequality are created and changed within and across generations. Her current topics of investigation include the gap between factual and perceived inequality, multigenerational social mobility and kinship inequality, the evolution of occupational structure, and statistical methods for characterizing the link between intra- and intergenerational mobility. She received the 2021 William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association. Her previous publications have received multiple awards from the American Sociological Association, the International Sociological Association, IPUMS, and the Demographic Research.

Daniel J. Hopkins

Daniel Hopkins is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania whose research centers on American politics, with a special emphasis on racial and ethnic politics, state/local politics, political behavior, and research methods.

Kiran Garimella

Kiran Garimella is an assistant professor of library and information science at Rutgers. Garimella’s research deals with using large-scale data to tackle societal issues such as misinformation, political polarization, or hate speech.

Afsaneh Razi

Afsaneh Razi is an Assistant Professor at the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. Razi’s research expertise is positioned at the intersection of HCI, Social Computing, AI/ML, Privacy, and Online Safety.

Chris Callison-Burch

Chris Callison-Burch is an associate professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his research into natural language processing. His current research is focused on applications of large language models to long-standing challenges in artificial intelligence.

Brandon Stewart

Brandon Stewart is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and is also affiliated with the Department of Politics and the Office of Population Research. He develops new quantitative statistical methods for applications across the social sciences. Methodologically his focus is in tools which facilitate automated text analysis and model complex heterogeneity in regression.

Ian Lustick

Ian Lustick holds the Bess W. Heyman Chair in the Political Science Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches Middle Eastern politics, comparative politics, and computer modeling.

Taylor Brown

Taylor Brown is a research scientist/engineer at Facebook. Brown studies group-level patterns using digital trace data and computational methods.

Mark Whiting

Mark E. Whiting builds systems to study how people behave and coordinate at scale. He is a Senior Computational Social Scientist at the CSSLab at the University of Pennsylvania working with Duncan J. Watts, in affiliation with Computer & Information Science in Engineering and Applied Science and Operations, Information and Decisions at Wharton.