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Brendan O’Connor (http://brenocon.com) is an associate professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who works in the intersection of computational social science and natural language processing – studying how social factors influence language technologies, and how to better understand social trends with automated text analysis. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Google, Meta, and NSF CAREER. At UMass, he is co-Director of the Computational Social Science Institute. He completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department, and BS/MS at Stanford in Symbolic Systems (cognitive science).