🀄 刘逢源

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PhD Student, Computer Science, New York University, NY

Data Science and AI Lab, NYU Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

I am a fourth-year Global PhD Fellow studying Computer Science at New York University, advised by Prof. Talal Rahwan and Prof. Bedoor Alshebli. I am based in NYU Abu Dhabi, and affiliated with the Data Science and AI Lab. Using methods from Social Science, Network Science, and Computer Science, I study various aspects of scientific editors and the publication process of scientific papers. My work has appeared in Nature Human Behaviour and PNAS, as well as being featured in media outlets such as Scientific American, Nature News, and Times Higher Education.

<aside> 📚 Research Interests: Computational Social Science, Science of Science, Machine Learning, Network Science, Research Policy, Gender and Racial Inequality

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I liken computational social science to Isaac Asimov’s fictional field of psychohistory.

… defined Psychohistory (Computational Social Science) to be that branch of mathematics which deals with the reactions of human conglomerates to fixed social and economic stimuli. … Implicit in all these definitions is the assumption that the human conglomerate being dealt with is sufficiently large for valid statistical treatment. — Encyclopedia Galactica

Updates

• 10/2023 - I wrote a blog post on what makes (good) computational social science research.
• 08/2023 - I passed my thesis proposal defense! The tentative title for my thesis is Understanding the big challenges in academia: Inclusion, conflict of interests, and the “numbers game”
• 08/2023 - The deadline to apply to 1st Winter School in Computation Social Science (WICSS) was August 31st. WICSS will be held in NYU Abu Dhabi from January 8 to 19, 2024.
• 07/2023 - I attended NetSci in Vienna and IC2S2 in Copenhagen.
• 06/2023 - My paper “Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses” got accepted with minor revision at Scientific Reports. It was a mass collaboration of 30+ NYUAD faculties. Read the preprint version here!
• 04/2023 - A paper accepted at IC2S2 as contributed talks and two papers accepted at ICSSI as contributed talks.
• 03/2023 - My second paper was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and has reached 1400+ Altmetrics score.
• 01/2023 - First paper during my PhD got published in Nature Human Behaviour and was covered by 10+ media outlets.
• 07/2022 - I attended IC2S2 in Chicago, IL and gave a contributed talk. Watch the video recording here.
• 05/2022 - I passed the Depth Qualifying Exam (DQE) at NYU GSAS!

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