recently:
– apr 10: honored to be a recipient of the 2019 Way Klingler Young Scholar Award.
– jan 4: very proud to have Fayika Nova present her first, first author paper on online harassment in anonymous social media at ICTDX.
– dec 1: very excited to be one of 3 people in 2018 to receive the Facebook Computational Social Science Methodology award.
I am an assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at Marquette University. I also hold an administrative position as the Director of Data Science and participate in the Cognitive Science program. Previously, I received a PhD from Cornell University under Steve Wicker and a MS from the Indian Statistical Institute under BS Daya Sagar.
My current research interests cut across human computer interaction, computational social science, ictd and privacy. I often work with various marginalized and developing populations. My research is (and has been) supported by the following:
Currently, I am interested in the following broad (and often intersecting) themes in my research:
- online harassment and content moderation in non-WEIRD contexts: I am interested in how online harassment is defined and experienced and subsequent content moderation policies and practices designed for non-normative, vulnerable and marginalized populations both, in and out of the US.
- developing ethical algorithms for foster care systems: Foster care systems are underfunded and overburdened in the US. Increasingly, algorithms are applied to make decisions about child risk, safety, placement and permanence. But, how ethical are they?
- understanding algorithmic biases in criminal justice: Algorithms are quite pervasive in every facet of the criminal justice system from crime mapping to bail determinations to sentencing. How do biases emerge from the interactions between people and algorithms in the criminal justice system?
I am always looking for motivated students at all levels (BS, MS, PhD) to work with me. If you are interested, please read this and get in touch. This is my cv, my github and google scholar profile.
If you want to get in touch please feel free to email me at shion [dot] guha [at] marquette [dot] edu.
