Organization

Svitlana is a Senior Scientist in the Data Science and Analytics Group, National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Her research focuses on developing machine learning, deep learning and NLP techniques to build large-scale social media forecasting analytics.

David is an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He holds a PhD from UCLA and was a postdoc in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and McGill University. His research combines NLP, network and data science to discover, explain and predict human behavior in large social systems.

David is an assistant professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley. His research applies NLP and machine learning to empirical questions in the humanities and social sciences, often enriching statistical models of text with contextual information about the social environment in which language is situated.

Dirk is an associate professor at Bocconi University in Milan. His research focuses on how social dimensions influence language and in turn NLP models, as well as on questions of bias and fairness. He strives to integrate sociolinguistic knowledge into NLP models to counteract demographic bias, and to gain sociolinguistic insights from large-scale statistical modeling.

Oren is an assistant professor at the department of Software and Information Systems Engineering at Ben Gurion University in Israel. He is interested in NLP and social dynamics, specifically in the ways social/complex networks can be used as the context in which communication (language) occurs.