Georgetown University
Lisa Singh is the Director of the Massive Data Institute (MDI) and a Professor in the Department of Computer at Georgetown University. She is affiliated with the Institute for the Study of International Migration and the Institute for Environment and Sustainability, and serves on the Technology and Society Steering Committee. She has authored/co-authored over 80 peer reviewed publications and book chapters related to data-centric computing, i.e. data mining, data privacy, and data science, and is the co-author of Words That Matter: How News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Election. Current projects include developing methods and tools to better understand forced movement due to conflict, learning from public, open source big data to advance social science research involving the understanding of human behavior and opinion, identifying noise and poor-quality information on social media, studying privacy on the web, and understanding social structures and behavior dissemination in animal societies. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research, the State Department, the Office of Naval Research, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, and the Department of Defense. Dr. Singh has also recently organized three workshops involving future directions of big data research. She is currently involved in different organizations working on increasing participation of women in computing and integrating computational thinking into K-12 curricula. Dr. Singh received her B.S.E. from Duke University and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET