I lead the Interaction Science team, which is part of the Computational Social Science and Core Data Science group. We study people’s interactions on and with Facebook products and what effect those products have on them, their relationships, and their community. We leverage this understanding to design new and better products and guide the larger product teams. Our research includes topics such as technology and well-being, crisis informatics, data for social good, information diffusion, and the structure of online prosocial and antisocial behavior. I received my PhD in computer science from UCLA, where I did research in artificial intelligence and heuristic search algorithms.
Interests
Computational social science, social computing, crisis informatics, data for social good, information diffusion
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Latest Publications
ISCRAM - May 19, 2019
Facebook Disaster Maps: Aggregate Insights for Crisis Response & Recovery
Paige Maas, Shankar Iyer, Andreas Gros, Wonhee Park, Laura McGorman, Chaya Nayak, Alex Dow
CHI - May 7, 2016
Changes in Engagement Before and After Posting to Facebook
Nir Grinberg, Alex Dow, Lada Adamic, Mor Naaman
WWW - April 7, 2014
Can cascades be predicted?
Justin Cheng, Lada Adamic, Alex Dow, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec
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