People
- C-SoDA Director & SoDA Program Head
- C-SoDA Associate Director & SoDA Graduate Director
- SoDA Undergraduate Director
- C-SoDA Postdoctoral Scholars
- Graduate Students (Current)
- Graduate Students (Alumni)
- Faculty
- Staff
C-SoDA Director & SoDA Program Head
Burt Monroe
- Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science, Social Data Analytics, & Informatics
- Director, Center for Social Data Analytics [C-SoDA]
- Head, Program in Social Data Analytics [SoDA]
- Director and Principal Investigator, BDSS-IGERT (2012-2018)
- Director, Quantitative Social Science Initiative [QuaSSI] (2006-2018)
C-SoDA Associate Director & SoDA Graduate Director
Bruce Desmarais
- DeGrandis-McCourtney Early Career Professor in Political Science
- Associate Director, Center for Social Data Analytics (C-SoDA)
- Director of Graduate Studies, Program in Social Data Analytics
- Acting Director, BDSS-IGERT (Fall 2016)
- Director, IGaP Lab (Interdependence in Government and Policy)
SoDA Undergraduate Director
Amy Linch
- Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Social Data Analytics
- Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Political Science
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C-SoDA Postdoctoral Scholars
Howard Liu
- C-SoDA Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2019-2020)
- Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Political Science, University of Essex (from Fall 2020)
Graduate Students (Current)
Samuel Bestvater
- PhD Student, Political Science and Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Muhammed Kafi Cifci
- PhD Student, Political Science & Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Shipi Kankane Dhanorkar
- PhD Student, Informatics (SoDA Graduate Minor)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 6 (2017-2018)
Nicholas Dietrich
- PhD Student, Political Science
- Lecturer, Quantitative Social Science, Stevens Institute of Technology (2020-)
- QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow (2017-18)
Sara Francisco
- PhD Student, Sociology & Social Data Analytics
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 6 (2017-2018)
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Brittany Freelin
- PhD Student, Criminology (SoDA Graduate Minor)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 6 (2017-2018)
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Mikaela Karstens
- PhD Student, Political Science
- C-SoDA Predoctoral Research Associate (2019-2020)
Claire Kelling
- PhD Student, Statistics & Social Data Analytics
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 6 (2017-18)
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Sangyeon Kim
- PhD Student, Political Science & Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Cassie McMillan
- PhD Student, Sociology and Demography (SoDA Graduate Minor)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 4 (2015-2017)
Steven Morgan
- PhD Student, Political Science & Social Data Analytics
- Data Scientist, Facebook (Survey and Demographic Research) (2020-)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 6 (2017-18)
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Markus Neumann
- PhD Student, Political Science and Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
So Young Park
- PhD Student, Recreation, Park, & Tourism Management (SoDA Graduate Minor)
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Sayali Phadke
- PhD Student, Statistics (SoDA Graduate Minor)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 4 (2015-2017)
Ben Sheng
- PhD Student, Statistics (SoDA Graduate Minor)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 4 (2015-2017)
Omer Faruk Yalcin
- PhD Student, Political Science and Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Amy Zhang
- PhD Candidate, Statistics & Social Data Analytics
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 5 (2016-18)
Robert Zuchowski
- PhD Student, Sociology & Demography (SoDA Graduate Minor)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 5 (2016-18)
Graduate Students (Alumni)
Beatrice Abiero
- Associate Research Scientist, Ipsos Public Affairs (2016-)
- PhD, Health Policy & Administration and Demography (2016)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 1 (2012-2014)
Francesco Acciai
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University
- PhD, Sociology and Demography, 2016
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2014-15)
Margaret (Molly) Ariotti
- Assistant Professor of International Affairs, University of Georgia
- PhD, Political Science (2018)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 1 (2012-2013)
Benjamin Bagozzi
- Associate Professor of Political Science & International Relations, University of Delaware
- Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota (2013-2015)
- PhD, Political Science (2013)
- BDSS-IGERT Affiliate and QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow (2012-2013)
Daehee Bak
- Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas Tech University
- PhD, Political Science (2013)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2010-11)
Brett Beattie
- Data Science Manager, Match.com
- PhD, Sociology & Demography (2015)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2011-12)
John Beieler
- Director of Science & Technology, Office of the Director for National Intelligence (2019-)
- Program Manager, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), 2017-2019
- Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University, Human Language Technology Center for Excellence (2016-2017)
- Data Scientist, Caerus Analytics (2015-2016)
- PhD, Political Science (2016)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 2 (2013-2015)
Jason José Bendezú
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Child Development, University of Minnesota
- PhD, Psychology (2018)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2013-14)
Christopher Boylan
- Data Scientist, Verisk (Dublin)
- PhD, Political Science (2017)
- MS, Applied Statistics
- BDSS-IGERT Affiliate and QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow (2015-16)
Satvika Chalasani
- Technical Specialist & UNFPA Lead on Ending Child Marriage, United Nations Population Fund
- Research Fellow, The Population Council (2010-12)
- PhD, Sociology and Demography (2010)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2007-08)
Wanghuan Chu
- Data Scientist, Google (2016-)
- PhD 2016, Statistics
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 2 (2013-2015)
Cindy Cook
- Data Scientist, SAIS
- ABD, Statistics
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 3 (2014-2016)
Vito D'Orazio
- Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Dallas
- Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University (2014-2015)
- Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University (2013-2014)
- PhD, Political Science (2013)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2011-12)
Yaoyao Dai
- Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2020-)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU-Abu Dhabi (2019-20)
- PhD, Political Science and Asian Studies (2019)
- C-SoDA Predoctoral Research Associate (2018-19)
Matthew Denny
- Research Scientist, Facebook Core Data Science (2019-).
- Research Associate, Georgetown University, Massive Data Institute (2019-).
- PhD, Political Science and Social Data Analytics (2019)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow (2015-2017)
Simone Dietrich
- Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Senior Lecturer and Director of ESSEXLab, University of Essex (2015-17)
- Assistant Professor, University of Missouri (2012-15)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University (2011-12)
- PhD, Political Science (2011)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2009-10)
Ben Fisher
- Head of Data Science, Verisk Maplecroft (New York)
- PhD, Political Science (2016)
- BDSS-IGERT Affiliate and QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow (2014-15)
Mitchell Goist
- PhD, Political Science (SoDA Graduate Minor) (2019)
- BDSS-IGERT Affiliate and QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow (2016-17)
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Maggie Houchen
- Senior Vice President for Research, Baylor College of Medicine
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 3 (2013-14)
Carolynne Hultquist
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University (2020-)
- PhD, Geography (SoDA Graduate Minor) (2019)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 4 (2015-2017)
Timmy Huynh
- Data Analyst, Eberly College of Science, Penn State
- ABD, Sociology
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 3 (2014-16)
Muhammed Idris
- Director of Data, Product, and Technology, PLUS1
- Fellow, Capria Ventures
- Cofounder, Edel Technologies
- Principle Data Scientist, TeraCrunch
- Resident, TED Conferences (2018)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Concordia University (2016-2018)
- PhD, Political Science (2016)
- BDSS Fellow, Cohort 1 (2012-2014)
Christopher Inkpen
- Data Scientist, RTI International
- PhD, Sociology and Demography (2017)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 2 (2013-2015)
Kyle Joyce
- Lecturer, Government Analytics, Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs
- Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of California at Davis (2008-2016)
- PhD, Political Science (2008)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2006-07)
Vishesh Karwa
- Assistant Professor, Statistical Science, Temple University
- Assistant Professor, Statistics, Ohio State University (2017-19)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard University (2015-17)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University (2014-15)
- PhD, Statistics (2014)
- BDSS-IGERT Affiliate and QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow (2012-13)
Michael Kenwick
- Assistant Professor, Political Science, Rutgers University
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania (2017-2019)
- PhD, Political Science (2017)
- BDSS-IGERT Affiliate and QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow (2015-2016)
Rachel Koffer
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
- PhD, Human Development & Family Studies (2018)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 2 (2013-15)
Fridolin Jakob Linder
- Data Scientist, Siemens Mobility, Intelligent Traffic Systems Lab
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Media and Political Participation (SMAPP) Lab (2018-19).
- PhD, Political Science (SoDA Graduate Minor) (2018)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 3 (2014-2016)
Xi Liu
- Software Engineer, Google Cloud AI
- PhD, Geography (SoDA Graduate Minor) (2019)
Jennifer Smith Mason
- Professor of Practice, University of Arizona
- Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA (2018-19)
- PhD, Geography (2018)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 1 (2012-2014)
Ryan McMahon
- Data Scientist, Google, YouTube Data Science Team
- Data Scientist, Verisk Maplecroft (2018-2019)
- PhD, Political Science (SoDA Graduate Minor) (2018)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 4 (2015-17)
Claudia Nau
- Research Scientist, Division of Behavioral Research, Kaiser Permanente
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
- PhD, Sociology and Demography (2012)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2008-09)
Jonathan Nelson
- Vermont Department of Transportation
- User Experience Designer, Strava (2015-2018)
- PhD, Geography (SoDA Graduate Minor) (2019)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 3 (2014-2015)
Alex Ororbia, II
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science, RIT
- PhD, Informatics (SoDA Graduate Minor) (2018)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 3 (2014-2016)
Julianna Pacheco
- Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa
- Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar, University of Michigan (2010-12)
- PhD, Political Science (2010)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2008-09)
Anna Pechenkina
- Assistant Professor of Political Science, Utah State University
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Politics & Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University (2013-16)
- PhD, Political Science (2013)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2008-09)
Nathaniel Porter
- Social Science Data Consultant & Data Education Coordinator, Informatics Lab, Virginia Tech
- PhD, Sociology (2017)
- BDSS-IGERT Affiliate and QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow (2013-14)
Amanda Rebar
- Senior Lecturer, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University
- National Health and Medical Research Council Research Fellow
- PhD, Kinesiology (2013)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2011-12)
Kevin Reuning
- Assistant Professor, Miami University (of Ohio), Fall 2018-
- PhD, Political Science (2018)
- BDSS-IGERT Affiliate and QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow (2016-17)
Doug Rice
- Assistant Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- PhD, Political Science (2013)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2011-12)
John Schoeneman
- Watkins Global Trade Scholars Supervisor, Oklahoma State University
- PhD, Political Science & Social Data Analytics (2019)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 5, 2016-2017
Mark Simpson
- PhD, Geography (SoDA Graduate Minor) (2019)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 5 (2016-2018)
Joshua Snoke
- Associate Statistician, RAND Corporation
- PhD, Statistics (SoDA Graduate Minor) (2018)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 3 (2014-16)
Benjamin Soltoff
- Assistant Instructional Professor in Computational Social Science, University of Chicago
- Assistant Director, Masters in Computational Social Science, University of Chicago
- PhD, Political Science (2014)
- BDSS-IGERT Affiliate and QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow (2013-14)
Sam Stehle
- Postdoctoral Fellow, National Centre for Geocomputation, Maynooth University
- PhD, Geography (2017)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 2 (2013-2015)
Joshua Stevens
- Scientific Visualization & Cartographic Quality Lead, NASA Earth Observatory
- ABD, Geography
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 1 (2012-14)
Xiaoran Sun
- Stanford University Data Science Scholar (2020-)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, The Screenomics Lab (2019-)
- PhD, Human Development & Family Studies (SoDA Graduate Minor) (2019)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 6 & QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow (2017-2018)
Zhanna Terechshenko
- Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University, Social Media and Political Participation (SMAPP) Lab
- PhD, Political Science and Social Data Analytics (2019)
Eitan Tzelgov
- Lecturer in Politics, University of East Anglia
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Varieties of Democracy Project, University of Gothenburg (2013-15)
- PhD, Political Science (2013)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2009-10)
Tatiana Vashchilko
- Assistant Professor, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
- PhD, Political Science (2011)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2006-07)
Xiaozhou Wang
- Assistant Professor, Hunan University of Humanities, Science, & Technology
- Postdoctoral Fellow, S4 - Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, Brown University
- PhD, Sociology and Demography (2012)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2010-11)
Stephanie Wilson
- Assistant Professor, Psychology, Southern Methodist University
- Director, SHARE Lab
- Pelatonia Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, Ohio State University (2016-19)
- PhD, Human Development & Family Studies (2016)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 1 (2012-14)
Aidan Wright
- Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
- Director, Personality Processes and Outcomes Laboratory
- Postdoctoral Fellow, SUNY-Buffalo (2013)
- Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (2012)
- PhD, Psychology (2012)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2007-08)
Peifeng Yin
- Software Engineer, Pinterest
- Research Scientist, IBM Research (2014-19)
- PhD, Computer Science & Engineering (2014)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2012-13)
Jay Yonamine
- Head of Data Science, Operations, and Quality for Global Patents, Google
- PhD, Political Science (2013)
- BDSS-IGERT Affiliate and QuaSSI Predoctoral Fellow (2012-13)
Mo Yu
- Software Engineer, Google
- PhD, Information Sciences and Technology (2017)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 1 (2012-14)
Yeying Zhu
- Assistant Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
- PhD, Statistics (2013)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2010-11)
Faculty
Duane Alwin
- McCourtney Professor of Sociology and Demography
- Director, Life Course Center
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Timothy Brick
- Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Guoray Cai
- Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, Spatial Information and Intelligence Laboratory
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Guido Cervone
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Director, Geoinformatics and Earth Observation Laboratory
- Associate Director, Institute for CyberScience
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Guangqing Chi
- Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
- Director, Computational and Spatial Analysis Core, Population Research Institute
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Chao-Hsien Chu
- Professor, Information Sciences & Technology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Linda Collins
- Distinguished Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, and Statistics
- Director, The Methodology Center
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Jonathan Cook
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Director, Group Identity and Social Perception Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Daniel DellaPosta
- Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Data Analytics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Bruce Desmarais
- DeGrandis-McCourtney Early Career Professor in Political Science
- Associate Director, Center for Social Data Analytics (C-SoDA)
- Director of Graduate Studies, Program in Social Data Analytics
- Acting Director, BDSS-IGERT (Fall 2016)
- Director, IGaP Lab (Interdependence in Government and Policy)
Diane Felmlee
- Professor of Sociology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Christopher Fowler
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Lee Giles
- David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, The Intelligent Information Systems Research Laboratory
- Graduate Faculty, Computer Science and Engineering
- Professor (by courtesy), Supply Chain and Information Systems
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2012-17), Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Rick Gilmore
- Professor of Psychology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Corina Graif
- Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology
- Research Associate, Population Research Institute
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Michael Hallquist
- Assistant Professor of Psychology
- Director, Developmental Personality Neuroscience Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Melissa Hardy
- Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2012-2017), Social Data Analytics
Peter Hatemi
- Professor of Political Science
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Frank Hillary
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Director, Brain Injury and Plasticity Lab, Penn State Clinical Neuropsychology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Marie Hojnacki
- Associate Professor of Political Science
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Vasant Honavar
- Professor and Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, Center for Big Data Analytics and Discovery Informatics
- Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory
- Associate Director, Institute for CyberScience
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang
- Assistant Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
David Hunter
- Professor of Statistics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Daniel Kifer
- Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Alexander Klippel
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Director, ChoroPhronesis
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Derek Kreager
- Professor of Sociology and Criminology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Soundar Kumara
- Allen E. Pearce and Allen M. Pearce Professor of Industrial Engineering
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Jeremy Ladd
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics
Stephanie Lanza
- Director, The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center
- Professor of Biobehavioral Health
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
James LeBreton
- Professor, Psychology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Director, Measurement and Applied Psychology Laboratory (MAP Lab)
Wang-Chien Lee
- Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
- Director, Intelligent Pervasive Data Access Group (iPDA)
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Runze Li
- Eberly Family Chair Professor of Statistics and Public Health Sciences
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Zhenhui (Jessie) Li
- Associate Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Amy Linch
- Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Social Data Analytics
- Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Political Science
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Suzanna Linn
- Professor of Political Science
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Xiaofei Lu
- Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Alan MacEachren
- Professor of Geography
- Director, GeoVISTA Center
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2015-2019), Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Kamesh Madduri
- Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
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Stephen Matthews
- Liberal Arts Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Demography
- Director, Program in Demography
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Rustin Meyer
- Assistant Professor of Psychology
- Director, Contextual Awareness and Situational Assessment (CASA) Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Prasenjit Mitra
- Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Peter Molenaar
- Distinguished Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Burt Monroe
- Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science, Social Data Analytics, & Informatics
- Director, Center for Social Data Analytics [C-SoDA]
- Head, Program in Social Data Analytics [SoDA]
- Director and Principal Investigator, BDSS-IGERT (2012-2018)
- Director, Quantitative Social Science Initiative [QuaSSI] (2006-2018)
Kari Lock Morgan
- Assistant Professor of Statistics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Kevin Munger
- Assistant Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Michael Nelson
- Associate Professor, Political Science
- Affiliate Faculty, Penn State Law
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Xiaoyue (Maggie) Niu
- Associate Research Professor of Statistics
- Managing Director, Statistical Consulting Center
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Zita Oravecz
- Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Bing Pan
- Associate Professor, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Rebecca Passonneau
- Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Eric Plutzer
- Professor of Political Science and Sociology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Sarah Rajtmajer
- Assistant Professor, Information Sciences & Technology
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2019-), Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Nilam Ram
- Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, and Psychology
- Co-Director, StudioLab
- Core Faculty, QuantDev (Quantitative Development Systems Methodology)
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Frank Ritter
- Professor of Information Sciences & Technology, Psychology, and Computer Science & Engineering
- Co-Director, Applied Cognitive Science Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Anthony Robinson
- Assistant Professor of Geography
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Charles Seguin
- Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Data Analytics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Lijiang (L J) Shen
- Associate Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Aleksandra (Sesa) Slavkovic
- Professor of Statistics
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Rachel Smith
- Liberal Arts Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Conrad Tucker
- Associate Professor of Engineering Design, Industrial Engineering, and Computer Science
- Director, Design Analysis Technology Advancement (DATA) Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Ashton M. Verdery
- Assistant Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Social Data Analytics
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2017-), Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
James Wang
- Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
- Co-Director, Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Shomir Wilson
- Assistant Professor, Information Sciences & Technology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Bradley Wyble
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Director, Wyble Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Lingzhou Xue
- Assistant Professor of Statistics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Scott Yabiku
- Professor of Sociology and Demography
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
John Yen
- University Professor of Information Sciences & Technology, and Computer Science & Engineering
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang
- Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, Knowledge Visualization Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Bu Zhong
- Associate Professor of Journalism, College of Communications
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Christopher Zorn
- Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science
- Affiliate Faculty, Penn State Law
- Associate Director, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Staff
Angela Hill
- Undergraduate Staff Coordinator (Political Science / Social Data Analytics)
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Kristie Kalvin
- Undergraduate Academic Advisor (Political Science / Social Data Analytics)
Greg Nolan
- Undergraduate Academic Advisor (Political Science / Social Data Analytics)
Mia Parise
- Undergraduate Academic Advisor (Political Science / Social Data Analytics)
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