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Career

· Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley2025–
· Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research2024–2025
· Research Intern, Microsoft Research2022–2024
· PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University2019–2024
· PhD Student, Stanford University2019–2024
· Intern, Google2018–
· Academic Chair, Columbia University2017–2019
· Instructional Assistant, Columbia University2017–
· Peer Tutor, Columbia University2017–
· Engineering Practicum Intern, Google2017–
· B.A., Computer Science (major), Sociology (concentration), Columbia University2015–2019
· B.A. in Computer Science and Sociology, Columbia University2015–2019
· Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley

Publications (22)

Mobility network models of COVID-19 explain inequities and inform reopening
Nature · 2020
1,393
cited
Computational analysis of 140 years of US political speeches reveals more positive but increasingly polarized framing of immigration
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
89
cited
Supporting COVID-19 Policy Response with Large-scale Mobility-based Modeling
medRxiv · 2021
45
cited
Language Model Fine-Tuning on Scaled Survey Data for Predicting Distributions of Public Opinions
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2025
30
cited
Mobility network modeling explains higher SARS-CoV-2 infection rates among disadvantaged groups and informs reopening strategies
medRxiv · 2020
27
cited
Detecting Gang-Involved Escalation on Social Media Using Context
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2018
21
cited
Crowd-Sourced Iterative Annotation for Narrative Summarization Corpora
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2017
20
cited
Automatically Inferring Gender Associations from Language
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2019
12
cited
Estimating Geographic Spillover Effects of COVID-19 Policies From Large-Scale Mobility Networks
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2022
11
cited
Measuring vaccination coverage and concerns of vaccine holdouts from web search logs
Nature Communications · 2023
6
cited
Inferring Dynamic Networks from Marginals with Iterative Proportional Fitting
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2024
3
cited
Learning production functions for supply chains with graph neural networks
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2024
3
cited
To Recommend or Not? A Model-Based Comparison of Item-Matching Processes
International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021
3
cited
Rethinking LLM Human Simulation: When a Graph is What You Need
arXiv.org · 2025
1
cited
A Study on the Alinsky’s Model of Community Organizing The Lessons from the “Old Future” of Community Organizing
Korean Association of Regional Sociology · 2020
From Plaza to Public Park: The Spatial-sociological Approach to Transformation of 5·16 Plaza
2016
How to Organize Local Community in the City? : Community Organizing Strategies from the Perspective of Activists
Economy and Society · 2022
The Crisis and Responses of A Company City: An Experiment of Urban Revitalization in Steel City, Pohang
2019
The Korean War and the Urbanization of Busan
Society and History · 2023
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