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Career

· Assistant Professor, University of Toronto2017–

Publications (69)

The Structural Virality of Online Diffusion
Management Sciences · 2015
618
cited
Engaging with massive online courses
The Web Conference · 2014
551
cited
Steering user behavior with badges
The Web Conference · 2013
418
cited
Discovering value from community activity on focused question answering sites: a case study of stack overflow
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · 2012
411
cited
Understanding the Origins of Bias in Word Embeddings
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2018
219
cited
Algorithmic Effects on the Diversity of Consumption on Spotify
The Web Conference · 2020
204
cited
Quantifying social organization and political polarization in online platforms
Nature · 2020
171
cited
Exploring Limits to Prediction in Complex Social Systems
The Web Conference · 2016
152
cited
Effects of user similarity in social media
Web Search and Data Mining · 2012
146
cited
Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · 2020
129
cited
The dynamics of repeat consumption
The Web Conference · 2014
116
cited
Auditing Search Engines for Differential Satisfaction Across Demographics
The Web Conference · 2017
89
cited
Global Diffusion via Cascading Invitations: Structure, Growth, and Homophily
The Web Conference · 2015
79
cited
How Constraints Affect Content: The Case of Twitter's Switch from 140 to 280 Characters
International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2018
73
cited
Towards a Computational History of the ACL: 1980-2008
Discoveries@ACL · 2012
70
cited
Generalists and Specialists: Using Community Embeddings to Quantify Activity Diversity in Online Platforms
The Web Conference · 2019
58
cited
Political Ideology and Racial Preferences in Online Dating
2014
52
cited
Generating Faithful Synthetic Data with Large Language Models: A Case Study in Computational Social Science
arXiv.org · 2023
45
cited
Personal bests as reference points
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
37
cited
From "Welcome New Gabbers" to the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: The Evolution of Gab
International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2019
33
cited
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