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Ivan Smirnov

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Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney

As a computational social scientist, I use big data, machine learning, and AI to understand human behavior and complex social phenomena. My primary focus is on inequality and biases in socio-technical systems.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
  • 2022–2023
    Assistant Professor, University of Mannheim
  • 2020–2022
    Research Fellow, RWTH Aachen University

Education

  • 2018 
    Higher School of Economics, PhD

Publications

  • 2023
    PNAS Nexus, Toxic comments are associated with reduced activity of volunteer editors on Wikipedia
  • 2021
    Royal Society Open Science, Quota-based debiasing can decrease representation of the most under-represented groups
  • 2020
    EPJ Data Science, Estimating educational outcomes from students’ short texts on social media
  • 2019
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Parents mention sons more often than daughters on social media
  • 2019
    PLOS One, Schools are segregated by educational outcomes in the digital space