I am currently a member of the Connect group at Microsoft Research, Redmond.

I completed my Ph.D in 2011 from the Department of Computer Science at Arizona State University, Tempe. My advisor was Dr. Hari Sundaram. Until recently, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Communication and Information, Rutgers. I was working in the social media group with Dr. Mor Naaman.

My broad research interests span the area of "computational social science". Broadly, I study collective human behavior as manifested via our online footprints. My dissertation dealt with computational and large-scale empirical analysis of communication dynamics in online social networks, as well as methods to identify relevant data that drive these dynamics. These have resulted in methods to understand and model information flow in networks, to mine emergent interactions in online communities and in the characterization of rich media artifacts.

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