I am a doctoral candidate in the Computer Science Department at New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering, working with Professor Torsten Suel.
My research focuses on mining data from online social networks and peer-production communities to understand user interaction, and building tools to support user decision-making.More broadly, I am also interested in all things related to online communities, and in all forms of Data Mining.
I will be defending my dissertation in Spring 2015.
Research Projects
I am currently working on decision support tools for Wikipedia editors using Machine Learning, supported by an Individual Engagement Grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. (Collaborators: Jodi Schneider and Aaron Halfaker)
- From July-October 2014, I was a research intern at Yahoo! Labs in Haifa, on the Answers Research team, supervised by Dan Pelleg. During the internship, I used statistical analysis to validate that sociological theories of behavior apply to users on Yahoo! Answers, as well as to determine how user behavior was affected by changes to the site's incentive model. Resulting paper has been submitted to ICWSM 2015.
- I have previously worked on exploring user interactions and influence in content-based social networks such as Pinterest. (Collaborator: Ajita John) Our paper will appear at CSCW 2015 in March. pdf
From 2013-2014, I was a member of an interdisciplinary team studying the search behavior of humanities scholars. Team members: Lisa Gitelman, Bill Blake, Christopher Leslie, my advisor Torsten Suel, and Xiaochang Li.
Previously, I have worked on decision support for the article deletion process in Wikipedia, and on a data-based exploration of the editor retention problem in Wikipedia as seen through the prism of article deletion.
I have also done work on temporal information extraction and creating an efficient spatio-temporal search engine for Twitter.
Additional information about the dataset and analysis techniques used for my Wikipedia deletion work is here
Additional information about the features used in the Wikipedia deletion detection is here.