Kuheli Sai

I am in the academic job market for Tenure-Track Assistant Professor role. If you are hiring, please get in touch!

Welcome to my website! My name is Kuheli Sai. I am an interdisciplinary researcher, and I pursue two main streams of research directions in computing:

Data Science for Societal Good
Cybersecurity and Safety

Additionally, the problems I solve, also contributes to the field of Computational Social Science, Social Media Study, FinTech, Digital Innovation/Transformation, Digital Sovereignty, Internet Equity, Sustainability, and on Sustainable NextG network.
I am especially interested to tackle societal, environmental, public sector, and technological problems that simultaneously help make progress towards achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
I have completed my PhD in Information Science from University of Pittsburgh and scheduled to graduate officially on December 13, 2025. I am in the academic job market for Tenure-Track Assistant Professor role for the academic year 2026 hiring season. If you are hiring, please get in touch!

Research Vision: My goal is to create a secure, sustainable, faster, fair, equitable, people-centric network-enabled technologies (e.g., Internet), applications and accompanied platforms for all and reach towards a better digital society and future. Alongside, leveraging this developed socio-technical systems, my research promotes societal well-being, positive health benefits and inclusion.
Methods and Implications of Research: My work has contributed to various problems, including but not limited to the following: Internet Equity, Digital Sovereignty, Sustainability, Social Media study, etc. In past, I have also developed an algorithm for adopting game theoretic approach for developing smart-contract based policy towards securing interoperable Blockchain network. I use concepts from data science, machine learning, natural language processing and primarily adopts empirical methods that specifically aims to solve social good problems. My research simultaneously has implications to contribute towards policy development (including Public Policy).

Collaboration: I am always looking for interesting research problems to work on and enthusiastically welcome collaboration opportunities in research projects. If you think I can contribute to solving one, please feel free to reach out to me directly!

Research Profile: ResearchGate Google Scholar DBLP IEEE Semantic Scholar

Exciting Updates!
2025

Dec: Invited Talk at the West Virginia University (December 2025)
Nov: Invited Talk at Grambling State University (December 2025)
Nov: Short Talk + Poster Presentation at Data Science Week 2025, Purdue University, Fort Wayne (December 2025)
Oct: Invited Talk at University of Louisville (October 2025)
Oct: Excited to join a new research collaboration on Security/Privacy projects!
Oct: Paper on Discourse on Misinformation got accepted for publication as a full paper at IEEE CogMI-2025
Sep: Joined the working group on Algorithms in Household Finance at EAAMO.
Sep: Invited Research Collaborator on multiple projects involving the theme on: AI/NLP for Cyber Safety, Social Media Study!
Aug: Talk at AI and Business Seminar, Florida Atlantic University. (Tentatively in Spring 2026 term)
Aug: I will participate and present my research in the Doctoral Consortium + Poster Session at ACM EAAMO 2025
Jun: Reviewer at the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2026
Jun: Registered Report of the Pilot Study of a Multi-Institution Collaborative Group Paper related to Social Media Study, Computational Social Science is under review at Nature!
- - Current Status, 2025 October: unofficial in-principle acceptance at Nature, contingent on another small revision.
  - Current Status, 2025 November: Stage 1 report has official in-principle acceptance at Nature.
May: Invited Research Collaborator on using NLP for Social Media Research + Computational Social Science
May: Talk in a Group Presentation in the Summer Institute of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at the Carnegie Mellon University
May: Program Committee Member - The 8th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES) 2025
May: Expert Participant/Collaborator on Global UN Collaboration initiatives (coordinated by ITU) on Policy guidance for enhancing Sustainability and Digital Transformation
Apr: Recipient of Catherine Ofiesh and Gerald Orner Award at the University of Pittsburgh
Mar: Upcoming invited talk on April 10, 2025, at the Ph.D. lunch talk series of SCI Doctoral Guild, University of Pittsburgh
Mar: Selected to participate in Pennsylvania Robotics and Technology Fellowship (PA-RTF), an experiential learning opportunity, organized by the University of Pittsburgh (I declined to participate)
Mar: Invited as Student Honoree in the 2025 Graduate and Professional Student Honors Convocation at the Univ. of Pittsburgh (to be held on Apr. 10, 2025)
Mar: I will present my research as a poster in the 2025 Data Science Day - a collaborative event co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost - Responsible Data Science and School of Computing and Information, organized by the University of Pittsburgh
Mar: I will participate in Summer Institute of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at CMU
Jan: I am part of a large-scale global academic collaboration and research projects on Computational Social Science spanning multiple academic institutions all over the world . . . . . I will include all the details soon, stay tuned!
Jan: I am part of the IJCAI-2025 Program Committee (main track + survey track)

2024

Dec: Awarded Provost's Dissertation Completion Fellowship from University of Pittsburgh
Oct: 4 research papers on Data Science for Societal Good theme got accepted + gave 6 research talks
Jul: Passed my Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal exam and advanced to Ph.D. Candidacy . . . . one step closer to complete my Ph.D.

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