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 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. ​Forecasting 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​

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PEOPLE

​Professors: Eshwar Chandrasekharan

Undergraduates:
Computer Science: Aditya Shylesh (UM), Robert Kang (UM), Victor Li (UM), 
Information Science: Katherine Mustelier (UM)

External collaborators:
​Shagun Jhaver (postdoc@UW), Stevie Chancellor (postdoc@Northwestern),
​Richard Barber (PhD@UIUC), Tanvi Bajpai (PhD@UIUC)