People
- BDSS-IGERT Director & SoDA Program Head
- Director of Graduate Studies, Social Data Analytics
- Undergraduate Director, Social Data Analytics
- Co-PIs & Social Data Analytics Program Committee
- BDSS-IGERT Fellows (Cohort 6, 2017-2018)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellows (Cohort 5, 2016-2018)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellows (Cohort 4, 2015-2017)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellows (Cohort 3, 2014-2016)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellows (Cohort 2, 2013-2015)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellows (Cohort 1, 2012-2014)
- SoDA Graduate Students & IGERT Affiliates (Current)
- SoDA Graduate Students & IGERT Affiliates (Alumni)
- Faculty
- Staff
BDSS-IGERT Director & SoDA Program Head
Burt Monroe
- Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics
- Graduate Faculty, College of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director and Principal Investigator, BDSS-IGERT
- Director, Center for Social Data Analytics [C-SoDA]
- Head, Program in Social Data Analytics [SoDA]
- Director, Quantitative Social Science Initiative [QuaSSI] (2006-2018)
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Molly Ariotti, 2012-13; Muhammed Idris, 2012-13;
- Sam Stehle, 2014-15; Alex Ororbia, 2015-16)
Director of Graduate Studies, Social Data Analytics
Bruce Desmarais
- Associate Professor of Political Science
- Director of Graduate Studies, Social Data Analytics
- Acting Director, BDSS-IGERT (Fall 2016)
- Director, IGaP Lab (Interdependence in Government and Policy)
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Matt Denny, 2015-16; Fridolin Linder, 2015-16; Sayali Phadke, 2015-16)
Undergraduate Director, Social Data Analytics
Amy Linch
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Social Data Analytics
- Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Political Science
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Co-PIs & Social Data Analytics Program Committee
Lee Giles
- David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, The Intelligent Information Systems Research Laboratory
- Graduate Faculty, Computer Science and Engineering
- Professor (by courtesy), Supply Chain and Information Systems
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2012-17), Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Muhammed Idris, 2013-14)
Melissa Hardy
- Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2012-2017), Social Data Analytics
Alan MacEachren
- Professor of Geography
- Director, GeoVISTA Center
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Josh Stevens, 2012-13;
- Jonathan Nelson, 2014-15; Robby Zuchowski, 2017-18)
Nilam Ram
- Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, and Psychology
- Co-Director, StudioLab
- Core Faculty, QuantDev (Quantitative Development Systems Methodology)
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Rachel Koffer, 2013-14)
David Reitter
- Assistant Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
- Co-Director, Applied Cognitive Science Lab
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2017-), Social Data Analytics
Aleksandra (Sesa) Slavkovic
- Professor of Statistics
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Joshua Snoke, 2014-15; Michelle Pistner, 2017-18)
Ashton Verdery
- Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2017-), Social Data Analytics
Christopher Zorn
- Liberal Arts Research Professor of Political Science
- Affiliate Faculty, Penn State Law
- Associate Director, BDSS-IGERT
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Timmy Huynh, 2015-2016)
BDSS-IGERT Fellows (Cohort 6, 2017-2018)
Shipi Kankane, (2017-2018)
- PhD Student, Information Sciences & Technology (SoDA Graduate Minor)
Xiaoran Sun, (2017-2018)
- PhD Candidate, Human Development & Family Studies (SoDA Graduate Minor)
BDSS-IGERT Fellows (Cohort 5, 2016-2018)
John Schoeneman, (2016-2017)
- PhD Candidate, Political Science & Social Data Analytics
Robert Zuchowski, (2016-2018)
- PhD Student, Sociology & Demography (SoDA Graduate Minor)
BDSS-IGERT Fellows (Cohort 4, 2015-2017)
Matthew J. Denny, (2015-2017)
- PhD Student, Political Science and Social Data Analytics
Cassie McMillan, (2015-2017)
- PhD Student, Sociology and Demography (SoDA Graduate Minor)
BDSS-IGERT Fellows (Cohort 3, 2014-2016)
Fridolin Jakob Linder, (2014-2016)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Media and Political Participation (SMAPP) Lab (Fall 2018-).
- PhD Student, Political Science (SoDA Graduate Minor)
Jonathan Nelson, (2014-2015)
- User Experience Designer, Strava
- PhD Student, Geography (SoDA Graduate Minor)
Alex Ororbia, (2014-2016)
- Assistant Professor, RIT (Fall 2018-)
- PhD Student, Information Sciences & Technology
Joshua Snoke, (2014-2016)
- Associate Statistician, RAND Corporation (August 2018-)
- PhD Student, Statistics (SoDA Graduate Minor)
BDSS-IGERT Fellows (Cohort 2, 2013-2015)
John Beieler, (2013-2015)
- Program Manager, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), 2017-
- Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University, Human Language Technology Center for Excellence (2016-2017)
- Data Scientist, Caerus Analytics (2015-2016)
- PhD, Political Science (2016)
Christopher Inkpen, (2013-2015)
- Data Scientist, RTI International
- PhD, Sociology and Demography
Sam Stehle, (2013-2015)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, National Centre for Geocomputation, Maynooth University
- PhD, Geography (2017)
BDSS-IGERT Fellows (Cohort 1, 2012-2014)
Beatrice Abiero, (2012-2014)
- Associate Research Scientist, Ipsos Public Affairs (2016-)
- PhD, Health Policy & Administration and Demography (2016)
Margaret (Molly) Ariotti, (2012-2013)
- (Starting Fall 2018) Assistant Professor of International Affairs, University of Georgia
- PhD Student, Political Science
Muhammed Idris, (2012-2014)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Concordia University
- PhD, Political Science
Joshua Stevens, (2012-2014)
- Scientific Visualization & Cartographic Quality Lead, NASA Earth Observatory
- PhD Candidate, Geography
Stephanie Wilson, (2012-2014)
- Pelatonia Postdoctoral Fellow, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
- PhD, Human Development & Family Studies
Mo Yu, (2012-2014)
- Software Engineer, Google
- PhD, Information Sciences and Technology
SoDA Graduate Students & IGERT Affiliates (Current)
Mitchell Goist, (2015- )
- PhD Student, Political Science (SoDA Graduate Minor)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2016-17)
So Young Park, (2017-)
- PhD Student, Recreation, Park, & Tourism Management (SoDA Graduate Minor)
Kevin Reuning, (2016-)
- Assistant Professor (tenure track), Miami University (of Ohio), Fall 2018-
- PhD Candidate, Political Science (PhD expected 2018)
- Predoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Social Science Initiative (2016-17)
Zhanna Terechshenko, (2016- )
- PhD Student, Political Science and Social Data Analytics
SoDA Graduate Students & IGERT Affiliates (Alumni)
Benjamin Bagozzi, (2012-2013)
- Assistant Professor of Political Science & International Relations, University of Delaware
- PhD, Political Science
Christopher Boylan, (2015-2017)
- Data Scientist, Verisk (Dublin)
- PhD, Political Science
- MS, Applied Statistics
Ben Fisher, (2014-2016)
- Data Scientist, Verisk Maplecroft (London)
- PhD, Political Science
Vishesh Karwa, (2012-2013)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard University
- PhD, Statistics
Michael Kenwick, (2015-2016)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania
- PhD, Political Science
Nathaniel Porter, (2013-2014)
- Social Science Data Consultant & Data Education Coordinator, Virginia Tech
- PhD, Sociology
Peifeng Yin, (2012-2013)
- Research Scientist, IBM Research
- PhD, Computer Science & Engineering
Faculty
Naomi Altman
- Professor of Statistics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Joshua Snoke, 2015-16)
Duane Alwin
- McCourtney Professor of Sociology and Demography
- Director, Life Course Center
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Clio Andris
- Assistant Professor of Geography
- Director, Friendly Cities Lab @ Penn State
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Cindy Cook, 2014-15; Cassie McMillan, 2015-16)
Le Bao
- Assistant Professor of Statistics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Ben Sheng, 2015-2016)
Rhonda BeLue
- Associate Professor of Health Policy & Administration
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Beatrice Abiero, 2012-13)
Timothy Brick
- Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Josh Snoke, 2014-15; Rachel Koffer, 2014-15)
Guoray Cai
- Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, Spatial Information and Intelligence Laboratory
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Guido Cervone
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Director, Geoinformatics and Earth Observation Laboratory
- Associate Director, Institute for CyberScience
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Guangqing Chi
- Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
- Director, Computational and Spatial Analysis Core, Population Research Institute
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Donna Coffman
- Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Temple University
- Faculty Affiliate, The Methodology Center, College of Health and Human Development
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Wanghuan Chu, 2013-14)
Linda Collins
- Distinguished Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, and Statistics
- Director, The Methodology Center
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Bruce Desmarais
- Associate Professor of Political Science
- Director of Graduate Studies, Social Data Analytics
- Acting Director, BDSS-IGERT (Fall 2016)
- Director, IGaP Lab (Interdependence in Government and Policy)
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Matt Denny, 2015-16; Fridolin Linder, 2015-16; Sayali Phadke, 2015-16)
Glenn Firebaugh
- Roy C. Buck Professor Emeritus of American Institutions, Sociology,and Demography
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Christopher Fowler
- Assistant Professor of Geography
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Timmy Huynh, 2014-2015)
Lee Giles
- David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, The Intelligent Information Systems Research Laboratory
- Graduate Faculty, Computer Science and Engineering
- Professor (by courtesy), Supply Chain and Information Systems
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2012-17), Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Muhammed Idris, 2013-14)
Corina Graif
- Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology
- Research Associate, Population Research Institute
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Brittany Freelin, 2017-18; Claire Kelling, 2017-18)
Melissa Hardy
- Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2012-2017), Social Data Analytics
Peter Hatemi
- Professor of Political Science
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Marie Hojnacki
- Associate Professor of Political Science
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Vasant Honavar
- Professor and Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, Center for Big Data Analytics and Discovery Informatics
- Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory
- Associate Director, Institute for CyberScience
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
David Hunter
- Professor of Statistics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Stephanie Wilson, 2013-14; Cindy Cook, 2015-16)
Daniel Kifer
- Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Alexander Klippel
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Director, ChoroPhronesis
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Jenny Mason, 2012-13)
Derek Kreager
- Professor of Sociology and Criminology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Stephanie Lanza
- Scientific Director, The Methodology Center
- Professor of Biobehavioral Health
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Wang-Chien Lee
- Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
- Director, Intelligent Pervasive Data Access Group (iPDA)
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Runze Li
- Verne M. Willaman Professor of Statistics and Public Health Sciences
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Wanghuan Chu, 2014-15)
Zhenhui (Jessie) Li
- Assistant Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Suzanna Linn
- Professor of Political Science
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Ryan McMahon, 2015-16)
Alan MacEachren
- Professor of Geography
- Director, GeoVISTA Center
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Josh Stevens, 2012-13;
- Jonathan Nelson, 2014-15; Robby Zuchowski, 2017-18)
Kamesh Madduri
- Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Stephen Matthews
- Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Demography
- Director, Program in Demography
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Beatrice Abiero, Jenny Mason, Maggie Houchen, 2013-14)
Prasenjit Mitra
- Professor of Information Sciences & Technology (On leave)
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Peter Molenaar
- Distinguished Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Burt Monroe
- Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics
- Graduate Faculty, College of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director and Principal Investigator, BDSS-IGERT
- Director, Center for Social Data Analytics [C-SoDA]
- Head, Program in Social Data Analytics [SoDA]
- Director, Quantitative Social Science Initiative [QuaSSI] (2006-2018)
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Molly Ariotti, 2012-13; Muhammed Idris, 2012-13;
- Sam Stehle, 2014-15; Alex Ororbia, 2015-16)
Michael Nelson
- Jeffrey L. Hyde and Sharon D. Hyde and Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professor in Political Science
- Assistant Professor, Political Science
- Affiliate Faculty, Penn State Law
Xiaoyue (Maggie) Niu
- Research Associate and Assistant Professor of Statistics
- Managing Director, Statistical Consulting Center
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Zita Oravecz
- Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Fridolin Linder, 2014-15; Carolynne Hultquist, 2015-16)
D. Wayne Osgood
- Professor Emeritus of Criminology and Sociology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Bing Pan
- Associate Professor, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Donna Peuquet
- Professor Emeritus of Geography
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (John Beieler, 2013-14)
Eric Plutzer
- Professor of Political Science and Sociology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Nilam Ram
- Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, and Psychology
- Co-Director, StudioLab
- Core Faculty, QuantDev (Quantitative Development Systems Methodology)
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Rachel Koffer, 2013-14)
David Reitter
- Assistant Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
- Co-Director, Applied Cognitive Science Lab
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2017-), Social Data Analytics
Frank Ritter
- Professor of Information Sciences & Technology, Psychology, and Computer Science & Engineering
- Co-Director, Applied Cognitive Science Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Anthony Robinson
- Assistant Professor of Geography
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Aleksandra (Sesa) Slavkovic
- Professor of Statistics
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Joshua Snoke, 2014-15; Michelle Pistner, 2017-18)
Rachel Smith
- Associate Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Stephanie Wilson, 2013-2014)
Andrea Hoplight Tapia
- Associate Professor of Information Sciences & Technology, Labor Studies & Industrial Relations, and Sociology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Sam Stehle, 2013-14)
Conrad Tucker
- Assistant Professor of Engineering Design, Industrial Engineering, and Computer Science
- Director, Design Analysis Technology Advancement (DATA) Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Rachel Koffer, 2014-15)
Ashton Verdery
- Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2017-), Social Data Analytics
James Wang
- Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
- Co-Director, Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Lingzhou Xue
- Assistant Professor of Statistics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
John Yen
- University Professor of Information Sciences & Technology, and Computer Science & Engineering
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Mo Yu, 2012-13)
Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang
- Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, Knowledge Visualization Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Christopher Zorn
- Liberal Arts Research Professor of Political Science
- Affiliate Faculty, Penn State Law
- Associate Director, BDSS-IGERT
- Research Rotation Host, BDSS-IGERT (Timmy Huynh, 2015-2016)
Staff
Stacy Fox
- Program Coordinator, BDSS-IGERT
- Administrative Support Assistant, Political Science / SoDA