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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 text analysis. For example, he has investigated racial bias in NLP technologies, political events reported in news, and language on Twitter. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER and Google Faculty Research awards, has received a best paper award, and his research has been cited thousands of times and been featured in the media. At UMass Amherst, he is an Associate Director of the Computational Social Science Institute. His PhD was completed in 2014 from Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department, and he has previously been a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and worked in the Facebook Data Science group and at the company Crowdflower; he started studying the intersection of AI and social science in Symbolic Systems (BS/MS) at Stanford University.
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.