Behavioral Data Science lab

The Behavioral Data Science lab is a research group in the UTS Data Science Institute at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Our research aims to make sense of large amounts of behavioral data, to understand online behavior and its offline effects. We develop core methods in machine learning and optimization in order to distill heaps of raw data into meaningful insights in areas including

social and information network analysis,
information diffusion across social networks,
mis- and dis-information spreading,
tomorrow's labour markets and labour transitions,
machine learning,
computational social science,
data mining, and
natural language processing

Two 1-Year Postdoc and multiple funded PhD positions available in detecting and modelling mis-/dis-information spread. If you are interested in working with us, please get in touch.

Recent News

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Jan 2023
📄 The paper ‘Interval-censored Transformer Hawkes: Detecting Information Operations using the Reaction of Social Systems’ by Quyu, Pio, Rohit and Andrei together with a colleague from Olga Boichak from the University of Sydney, just got accepted in The Web Conference 2023 (WWW), the flagship conference of Web Research.
Jan 2023
📄 The paper Predicting Relationship Labels and Individual Personality Traits from Telecommunication History in Social Networks using Hawkes Processes by Andrei together with colleagues from Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Poland) and University of California Los Angeles, just got accepted in impactful Computer Science journal IEEE Access (Google H5=200).
Nov 2022
📄 The paper Interval-censored Hawkes processes by Andrei, Alex and Pio, together with colleagues from ANU and Google, just got accepted in the flagship theoretical Machine Learning journal Journal of Machine Learning Journal.
Nov 2022
Rohit and Andrei presented at the Defence Human Sciences Symposium 2022 (DHSS'22) in the session “Human sciences in the Grey Zone”, the talk “Data-Driven Ideology Detection: A case study of far-right extremism“. Check the recording here.
Sep 2022
Andrei published a The Conversation piece on LinkedIn's experiment linking weak ties to labour modiblity, and gave radio interviews on Radio Adelaide and ABC Tasmania.