I’m a research scientist on the Computational Social Science team and am currently working on Disaster Mapping and Social Good efforts. I’ve also contributed to Facebook’s efforts to measure the sense of community that people feel while using our products. Methodologically, I am interested in using the tools of network science to address social science problems. Prior to joining Facebook in May 2017, I was on the data science team at Quora. Before that, I completed a PhD in condensed matter physics at Caltech.
Interests
Network science, computational social science, data for good
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Latest Publications
GRID - February 19, 2021
Measuring Long-Term Displacement Using Facebook Data
Eugenia Giraudy, Paige Maas, Shankar Iyer, Zack Almquist, JW Schneider, Alex Dow
ICWSM - June 8, 2020
When Does Trust in Online Social Groups Grow?
Shankar Iyer, Justin Cheng, Nick Brown, Xiuhua Wang
Applied Network Science - June 24, 2019
When can overambitious seeding cost you?
Shankar Iyer, Lada Adamic
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 4, 2019
When Do People Trust Their Social Groups?
Xiao Ma, Justin Cheng, Shankar Iyer, Mor Naaman
Complex Networks 2018 - December 11, 2018
The Costs of Overambitious Seeding of Social Products
Shankar Iyer, Lada Adamic
