SCUBA: THE SOCIAL COMPUTING LABORATORY

The Social Computing Laboratory (SCUBA) aims to make the internet a safer and more welcoming place by developing new scientific methods and computational tools. Our work broadly intersects with social computing, data science, human-centered AI, and natural language processing. 

​SCUBA's current research is related to combatting online antisocial behavior, human-AI collaborations to promote internet safety, and facilitating healthy online interactions.

SCUBA is officially a part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
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PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

I am looking for 1-2 new PhD students, especially in but not limited to social computing, HCI, NLP and human-centered AI.
If you are interested please apply to the University of Illinois ​by December 15, 2020.
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ONGOING PROJECTS

1. Real-time deployment of a new human-AI collaboration tool for community moderators
2. Design friction as a moderation intervention: Causal effects of "quarantining" on Reddit
3. Measuring and promoting healthy online behavior (e.g., prosocial outcomes in online interactions)
4. Community resilience to influxes of bad actors and behaviors
5. Gray areas in online governance: The case study of r/Coronavirus​

For a full list of our research papers, check out our publications.
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PEOPLE

​Professors: Eshwar Chandrasekharan

PhD: 
Charlotte Lambert, Jackie Chan, Fred Choi, 
Tanvi Bajpai, ​Richard Barber

Undergraduates:
Clark Lu, Niharika Chintalapati, Anwesa Goswami, Jacqueline Chen
UMSI: Aditya Shylesh, Robert Kang, Victor Li,  Katherine Mustelier

External collaborators:
​Shagun Jhaver (postdoc@UW),
Stevie Chancellor (postdoc@Northwestern -> Assistant Professor@University of Minnesota)