Abstract
Munmun De Choudhury is an assistant professor at the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech and a faculty associate with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. Munmun's research interests are in computational social science, with a specific focus on reasoning about health behaviors from social digital footprints. She has been a recipient of the Grace Hopper Scholarship, recognized with an IBM Emergent Leaders in Multimedia award, and recipient of ACM SIGCHI 2014 best paper award and ACM SIGCHI honorable mention awards in 2012 and 2013. Munmun's work has been extensively covered in popular press as well, including the New York Times, the TIME magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and the NPR. She served as the Program Chair of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) in 2014, and currently is a member of the Steering Committee of this interdisciplinary conference. Earlier, Munmun was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, a research fellow at Rutgers, and obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 2011.