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 facilitating healthy online interactions, combatting online antisocial behavior, and human-AI collaborations to promote trust and safety on the Internet.
SCUBA is officially a part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
SCUBA's current research is related to facilitating healthy online interactions, combatting online antisocial behavior, and human-AI collaborations to promote trust and safety on the Internet.
SCUBA is officially a part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ONGOING PROJECTS
- Real-time deployments of new human-AI collaboration tools for community moderators (e.g., Crossmod, ConvEx)
- Fostering desirable online behavior (e.g., quantifying prosocial outcomes in online interactions)
- Auditing and Re-designing algorithmic interfaces based on objectives drawn from HCI and theoretical CS
- Resilience to influxes of bad actors and bad behaviors within online communities (e.g., Conversational Resilience)
- Gray areas in online governance: Mismatches in stakeholder expectations (e.g., User-Mod Alignment on Reddit)
- Design friction as a moderation intervention: Causal effects of quarantining subreddits on Reddit
- Understanding and designing for audio-based (and other non-textual) social platforms
For a full list of our research papers, check out our publications.
PEOPLE
Professor: Eshwar Chandrasekharan
PhD:
Charlotte Lambert, Fred Choi, Jackie Chan, Tanvi Bajpai
MS:
Harita Reddy*, Dominic Jones*
Undergraduate:
Ayaan Shah, Ishq Gupta, Sowmya Pratipati, Drshika Asher, Ananya Rajagopal, Anwesa Goswami, Clark Lu, Jacqueline Chen;
[UM: Aditya Shylesh*, Robert Kang*, Victor Li*]
( * = Graduated!)
External collaborators:
Mattia Samory (Assistant Professor @ Sapienza University of Rome),
Stevie Chancellor (Assistant Professor@University of Minnesota),
Shagun Jhaver (Assistant Professor@Rutgers University).
PhD:
Charlotte Lambert, Fred Choi, Jackie Chan, Tanvi Bajpai
MS:
Harita Reddy*, Dominic Jones*
Undergraduate:
Ayaan Shah, Ishq Gupta, Sowmya Pratipati, Drshika Asher, Ananya Rajagopal, Anwesa Goswami, Clark Lu, Jacqueline Chen;
[UM: Aditya Shylesh*, Robert Kang*, Victor Li*]
( * = Graduated!)
External collaborators:
Mattia Samory (Assistant Professor @ Sapienza University of Rome),
Stevie Chancellor (Assistant Professor@University of Minnesota),
Shagun Jhaver (Assistant Professor@Rutgers University).