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Faculty
Jieun Shin
Jieun Shin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Production, Management, and Technology in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida. Dr. Shin’s research examines misinformation, fact-checking, and news consumption, with an emphasis on how audiences evaluate and engage with information.
Olga Gasparyan
Olga Gasparyan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Florida State University. Dr. Gasparyan’s research examines how information environments, particularly visual content, shape political attitudes, public health outcomes, and governance. Her work integrates eye-tracking technology, computational image and text analysis, survey experiments, and advanced statistical methods to address questions in comparative politics, public policy, and political methodology.
Nathan Carpenter
Nathan Carpenter is the Director of the ATLAS lab, a digital listening and analytics lab, at the University of Florida. Dr. Carpenter's expertise is in analyzing trends and conducting research using data from social media platforms.Speakers
Andrew Ballard
Dr. Ballard is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida State University. He studies American politics with a particular interest in legislative institutions, political parties, and the interplay between legislators and the public.
AJ Alvero
Dr. Alvero is an Assistant Research Professor & Computational sociologist in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University. His ongoing research focuses on critical moments of evaluation, specifically in college admissions, parole, and emergency room visits.
Soojong Kim
Dr. Kim is an assistant professor at the Department of Communication at UC Davis. His research investigates the social and psychological consequences and mechanisms of communication and conducting research using quantitative and computational techniques
Yingdan Lu
Dr. Lu is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Yingdan’s research centers on digital technology, political communication, and authoritarian politics.
Amir Tohidi
Dr. Tohidi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Computational Social Science Lab at the University of Pennsylvania and a Knight Fellow at the Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy. His research is on how people interact with information and how these interactions shape public opinion and behavior.
George G. Vega Yon
Dr. Vega Yon is an Assistant Professor of Research at the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Utah. He studies Complex Systems using Statistical Computing. He has expertise in developing scientific software focusing on high-performance computing, data visualization, and social network analysis.
Byungkyu Lee
Dr. Lee is an assistant professor of Sociology at NYU. His research is on social cohesion and network dynamics, exploring their impacts on individual, community, and societal well-beings in the domains of health and politics. His research also uses large language models, surveys, and social media data to develop indicators of social cohesion and polarization, predict public opinion, and simulate AI agents for advancing social science research.
