I am an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech . Given the diversity of my intellectual interests, I am also affiliated with the Graphics and Visualization Center ( GVU ), Institute for People and Technology ( IPaT ), and the Machine Learning Center ( ML@GT ) at Georgia Tech.
Trained as a computer scientist, I am passionate about problems at the intersection of computer science and social science. In my 15 year research career this far, my research has contributed to the development of a variety of computational methods and artifacts to make sense of human behavior and psychological state, as manifested via our online digital traces. My research has been motivated by how the availability of large-scale online social data, with the amalgamation of advances in machine learning and
Since 2013, supported by sustained and involved domain, academic, industry, non-profit, and governmental collaborations spread nationally and internationally (nearly 250 co-authors spanning 12 disciplines), I have spearheaded an innovative research agenda that has situated social media as a both a mechanism to understand our mental health, as well as to improve provision of and access to mental health care. In particular, first proposed in this influential paper , my research has pioneered the computational
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