skairam.bsky.social
Member of Technical Staff @OpenAI | Teaching the machines to learn from humans. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BH7jpGIAAAAJ&hl=en
👤 Joined on 25 April 2023
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@skairam.bsky.socialIt's finally public! 🎉 Excited to announce I'll be joining UIUC's iSchool as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026. My lab will focus on AI information ecosystems, computational social science, and social computing. I will start recruiting PhD students this cycle, so please reach out if interested.
Show PostOut today in Social Media + Society! In a new paper with @skairam.bsky.social, we conduct a longitudinal survey with Reddit trace data to compare the demographics and behaviors of users who follow local subreddits and those who do not. Here's what we learned🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Show PostCurating and sharing high-quality datasets is the foundation of good empirical science. @icwsm.bsky.social promotes dataset creation through a dedicated conference track published in the conference's regular proceedings. Submit your dataset paper by Jan 15th! www.icwsm.org/2025/submit/...
Show PostIn collab w/ Semantic Scholar, we conducted a large scale (800+) survey of researcher usage and perceptions of LLMs for science. Major findings: +Most are using LLMs already, mostly for writing +LLMs seem to be a win for research equity +But some groups, like women, have more ethical concerns too
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