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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 an Associate 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).
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. At UMass, he is an Associate Director of the Computational Social Science Institute. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University and BS/MS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University; he has previously been a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and worked at technology companies including Facebook Data Science and Crowdflower.