Professor
University of Illinois, Computer Science
I am a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with affiliate appointments in the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, the Institute for Communication Research and the Center for Social & Behavioral Science. My research is motivated by the need to solve large-scale collective-action problems: how do we live in cities with little or no pollution?; avoid infectious disease outbreaks?; decrease traffic congestion? These questions require us to confront a fundamental tension:
How do we reconcile an individual’s desire for agency and choice in what they do, with what everyone wants for society as a whole?
Computer Science has a crucial role to play in addressing these questions. The goal of my research is to understand human behavior at scale, and to empower individual decision making. To do so, my group, Crowd Dynamics Lab develops innovative algorithms, builds systems and performs experiments. Our research contributes to Applied Machine Learning, Network Science and to Human Computer Interaction. Our research has won awards from the ACM and IEEE societies as well as the American Academy of Advertising.
University of Illinois, Computer Science
University of Illinois, Computer Science
University of Illinois, Computer Science + Advertising
Arizona State University, Arts, Media and Engineering + Computer Science
Arizona State University, Arts, Media and Engineering
Arizona State University, Arts, Media and Engineering + Computer Science
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
M.S. in Electrical Engineering
Stony Brook University
B.Tech in Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi