We embrace the hacker mentality, learn things by doing, engage in bold transdisciplinary projects, and take pleasure in the real-world impacts of our work.

• Advancing Analytics Using Simulation Modeling to Improve Actionable Changes in the Opioid Overdose Epidemic (CDC)
• Improving Cooperation and Coordination in Heterogeneous Crowds of Soldiers and Robots (Army DEVCOM Analysis Center)
  
• Towards a Privacy-Preserving Framework for Research on Private, Encrypted Social Networks (NSF)
• VIMP: A Discourse-Aware, Community-Informed Toolkit to Predict Virality and Impact of Vaccine Misinformation Contents (CDC)
• Multi-State Bootstrap Percolation on Digraphs as a Framework for Neuronal Network Analysis (NSF)

Past Projects

• Socially Responsible Data Collection and Network Intervention Design (Pitt Momentum Funds)
• Modeling Threats to Sustainability of Social Networks as Critical Infrastructure (Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant)
• Complementing the Engineering Curriculum with Data for Social Good (Pitt Year of Data and Society)
• A Sampling and Modeling Framework to Counter Online Conspiratorial Propaganda (Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant)
• Identifying Macro and Micro Factors in Spreading Conspiratorial Content (Meta Foundational Integrity Research Award)