Assistant Professor
Industrial Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
1003 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
What is new …
Researchers from @Pitt_IE and @SciPitt received the @Meta Foundational Integrity Research Award to understand and stop the spread of online conspiracy content. https://t.co/veeuU15zZx
Had a great experience last semester fielding an undergraduate project on affordable housing for IE1171 students working with @wprdc data - thanks @BobGradeck for introducing the project https://t.co/5PE2aId0bL
Very happy to share that our large-scale experiment (~500k people in 23 countries) where we test a simple descriptive norms intervention to increase vaccine acceptance, is finally published in @NatureComms!https://t.co/bdBoecSAshpic.twitter.com/kBreUq2n6u
Excited to present our joint work with Jad Sassine and @deaneckles today @icwsm: “influence of repetition through limited recall” - modeling a situation that arises with repetition of ideas and messages in feeds https://t.co/5lWFxVRVUp
With Jan Hązła, @jababi, and Elchanan Mossel, we show NP-hardness of approximating beliefs and computing actions in popular models of Bayesian social learning. Forthcoming in Operations Research: https://t.co/CxQo7lu5T3
How are biological and social contagion affected by changes to network structure? Recent work has claimed a "weakness of long ties" for social contagions, unlike biological contagions. Our new paper substantially revises this conclusion. https://t.co/0xWJmWButxpic.twitter.com/YbBFoQJrxA