Meet the Team
Academics and Scientists
Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
Associate Professor
Artificial Intelligence, Social Data Science, Information Diffusion, Skill-based Job Transitions
Emily Booth
Research Assistant
Literature and Diversity, Teenagers’ Reading Practices, Mystery Fiction
Jooyoung Lee
Research Fellow
(postdoctoral researcher)
Artificial Intelligence, Social Data Science, Computational Social Science
PhD Students
Daniela Elia
PhD student
Ontology-based Information Extraction (OBIE), Graph data structures and algorithms, Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Dima Galat
PhD student
Seq2seq, Transfer learning, Representation Bias, Biomedical QA and Summarisation, Topic analysis, Startups
Lanqin (Frankie) Yuan
PhD student
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Data Mining, Data Streams
Xian (Elaine) Gong
PhD student
Natural Language Processing (NLP), Social Data Science, Personality Prediction, Artificial Intelligence
Honours Students
Matthew Ghannoum
Undergraduate Honours student
Social Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Processing, Web Development
Alumni
Quyu Kong
Research Scientist @ Alibaba DAMO Academy
Artificial Intelligence, Social Data Science, Information Diffusion
Andrew Law
Software Engineer @ Zuora
Machine Learning, Politics, Social Data Science, Software Engineering
Callum Pastuszak
Undergraduate Honours student @UTS
Artificial Intelligence, Disinformation & Fact Checking, Social Data Science
Duy Khuu
Graduate researcher @ Australian Federal Government
Machine Learning, Social Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics
Kifan Xiao
Graduate researcher @ Australian Federal Government
Social Data Science, Artificial Intelligence
Kriti Tripathi
Undergraduate Honours student @ ANU
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Social Data Science, Computational Physics/Astrophysics
Leanne Dong
Postdoc @ Concordia University, Canada
Stochastic point processes, Copulae models, Generalized Optimal Sparse Tree Optimization
Nik Dawson
Senior Economist @ Burning Glass Institute
Labour market dynamics, Skill shortages, Job transitions, Emerging technology adoption
Rui Zhang
Quantitative Intern @ Lingjun Invest
Non-parametric Bayesian Estimation, Hawkes Triggering Kernels, Variational inference
Thomas Willingham
Undergraduate Honours Student
Social Data Science, Natural Language Processing, High Performance Computing
Yaozhong Liu
Undergraduate Honours student @ ANU
Artificial Intelligence, Social Data Science, Natural language processing, Computer vision