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Computational social science

44 labs at 24 universities work on computational social science (part of Data Mining & Analytics). Most at UMD, Georgia Tech and Peking. 32 published in 2026.

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44 labs at 24 universities work on computational social science. Most at 4, 3, 3. 32 of them published in 2026, mostly at WWW, ACL and EMNLP. Earliest deadline: , Dec 1.

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CNSJTUSchool of Computer ScienceMay 31

Fan WuDistinguished Professor

Works on mobile intelligence such as on-device machine learning and crowdsensing, algorithmic network economics and data pricing and protection.

Time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data
Computational social science
Reasoning & neuro-symbolic AI

2026A Creator-Aware Recommendation System for Content PlatformsWWW
2026Auction design with ex post ROI constraintsArtificial Intelligence

86 T1 · 161 papers · 6 members

USUCSDComputer Science and EngineeringDec 15

Julian McAuleyProfessor

Builds recommender systems and models of user behavior and opinions from large online review and social data.

Recommendation, search & web
Computational social science

2026A zero-weight personalized recommender system for scalable news recommendationSIGIR
2026Auto-dreamer: learning offline memory consolidation for language agentsNeurIPS

85 T1 · 129 papers · 18 members · 25 alumni

USGeorgia TechSchool of Interactive ComputingDec 15

Alan RitterAssociate Professor

Studies natural language processing and information extraction with minimal supervision, including from social media.

Language & society
Knowledge, QA & retrieval
Computational social science

2026Camellia: Benchmarking Cultural Biases in LLMs for Asian LanguagesEMNLP
2026Do Vision-Language Models Respect Contextual Integrity in Location Disclosure?ICLR

36 T1 · 45 papers · 10 members · 8 alumni

CNSJTUSchool of Computer ScienceMay 31

Zhenzhe ZhengProfessor

Works at the intersection of economics, learning and systems, including on-device AI agents and strategic AI agents.

Computational social science
Reasoning & neuro-symbolic AI

2026A Creator-Aware Recommendation System for Content PlatformsWWW
2026Budget-Constrained Federated Bandits for Mobile ApplicationsINFOCOM

36 T1 · 62 papers · 14 members

CNZhejiangCollege of Computer Science and TechnologyFeb 28

Yingcai WuProfessor

Heads the Interactive Data Group, working on visual analytics for urban informatics, sports and social media, and information visualization.

Time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data
Computational social science
Language & society

2026Cerebra: Aligning Implicit Knowledge in Interactive SQL AuthoringCHI
2026ChronoMantic: A Natural Language Interface for Interactive Time Series Pattern QueryUIST

32 T1 · 124 papers · Group size not listed

CNPekingSchool of Computer ScienceJan 15

Xiaotie DengProfessor

Researches algorithmic game theory, computational economics, blockchain and online algorithms, including learning in games.

Reasoning & neuro-symbolic AI
Learning theory & optimization
Computational social science

2026Automated Deterministic Auction Design with Objective DecompositionWWW
2026Learning Truthful Mechanisms without DiscretizationAAMAS

28 T1 · 59 papers · Group size not listed

USUIUCSchool of Information SciencesDec 1

Dong WangProfessor

Studies human-centered and agentic AI for social sensing, including crowdsensing, misinformation detection on social media and social informatics.

Time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data
Computational social science
Language & society

2026Conflict-Aware Adaptive Alignment for LLM Hallucination MitigationICML
2026Learning Decomposed Contextual Token Representations from Pretrained and Collaborative Signals for Generative RecommendationSIGIR

27 T1 · 65 papers · 13 members · 5 alumni

SGNUSDepartment of Computer ScienceDec 15

Wynne HsuProvost's Chair Professor

Works on data analytics and machine learning, including AI in healthcare, retinal image analysis and social media analytics.

Computational social science
Data management & big data
Language & society

2026Dr.V : A Hierarchical Perception-Temporal-Cognition Framework to Diagnose Video Hallucination by Fine-Grained Spatial-Temporal GroundingIJCV
2026LogicReward: Incentivizing LLM Reasoning via Step-Wise Logical SupervisionICLR

26 T1 · 43 papers · 8 members · 32 alumni

CNSJTUSchool of Computer ScienceMay 31

Xiaofeng GaoTenured Professor

Works on data engineering, data mining and networking, including trust prediction in online social networks.

Graph mining & networks
Computational social science
Distributed, cloud & edge systems

2025Enhancing Masked Time-Series Modeling via Dropping PatchesAAAI
2025Fremer: Lightweight and Effective Frequency Transformer for Workload Forecasting in Cloud ServicesVLDB

25 T1 · 71 papers · 21 members · 12 alumni

USStanfordComputer ScienceDec 8

Dan JurafskyReynolds Professor in Humanities, Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science Stanford University

Studies natural language processing and computational social science, including language in society.

Language & society
Computational social science

2025"The ML-SUPERB 2.0 challenge: Towards inclusive ASR benchmarking for all language varieties."Interspeech
2025Advancing science-and evidence-based AI policy.Science

23 T1 · 59 papers · 8 members · 108 alumni

USMITElectrical Engineering and Computer ScienceDec 1

Manish RaghavanDrew Houston Career Development (2005) Professor; Assistant Professor

Applies computational techniques to social concerns, including algorithmic fairness, online platforms, and behavioral economics.

Trustworthy & safe ML
Reasoning & neuro-symbolic AI
Computational social science

2026Competition and Diversity in Generative AIManagement Science
2026Hitting a Moving Target: Test-Time Adaptation for AI Text Detection under Continual Distribution ShiftNeurIPS

18 T1 · 27 papers · 4 members · 3 alumni

USMichiganComputer Science and EngineeringDec 15

David JurgensAssociate Professor, EECS – Computer Science and Engineering; Associate Professor, School of Information

Studies natural language processing and computational social science, including how generative AI models social interaction and crowdsourced language data.

Language & society
Generative & foundation models
Computational social science

2026Modeling Annotator Disagreement with Demographic-Aware Experts and Synthetic PerspectivesACL
2026Interpreting Style Representations via Style-Eliciting PromptsFindings of ACL

15 T1 · 47 papers · Group size not listed

USUIUCSiebel School of Computing and Data ScienceDec 1

Hari SundaramProfessor

Studies computational social science, including network behavior, information diffusion and human-centered algorithm design.

Computational social science
Data management & big data
Language & society

2026Living Contracts: Beyond Document-Centric Interaction with Legal AgreementsCHI
2026Multi-modal Relational Item Representation Learning for Inferring Substitutable and Complementary ItemsSIGIR

14 T1 · 40 papers · 8 members · 37 alumni

GBOxfordDepartment of Computer ScienceJan 7

Markus BrillAssociate Professor of Computer Science

Studies computational social choice and the algorithmic foundations of collective decision making, such as voting rules and proportional representation.

Reinforcement learning
Language & society
Computational social science

2026Cycles in Liquid Democracy: A Game-Theoretic JustificationIJCAI
2026Mixed Voting Rules for Participatory BudgetingEC

14 T1 · 22 papers · 2 members · 4 alumni

GBEdinburghSchool of Informatics

Walid MagdyProfessor

Leads the SMASH group, applying social NLP to computational social science problems such as polarisation, political bias and online behaviour.

Language & society
Interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs
Computational social science

2026"God says we are right!": The Interplay between Religion and Propaganda on Arabic Social MediaCHI
2026ParsHate: A Benchmark Dataset for Hate and Target Detection in PersianEMNLP

14 T1 · 30 papers · 15 members · 20 alumni

CATorontoComputer ScienceDec 1

Ashton AndersonAssociate Professor

Analyzes large-scale social and behavioral data, including human-like chess AI (Maia) and online community dynamics.

Social computing & responsible AI
Computational social science

2026Chessformer: A Unified Architecture for Chess ModelingICLR
2026Invisible Saboteurs: Sycophantic LLMs Mislead Novices in Problem-Solving TasksCHI

13 T1 · 26 papers · 5 members · 22 alumni

CNPekingSchool of Computer ScienceJan 15

Tengjiao WangProfessor

Researches AI systems, big data and computational social science.

Computational social science
Data management & big data
Language & society

2026Dynamic Soft Contrastive Learning for Spatio-Temporal ForecastingDASFAA
2025Clear Up Confusion: Iterative Differential Generation for Fine-grained Intent Detection with Contrastive FeedbackCOLING

12 T1 · 17 papers · Group size not listed

CHETH ZurichDepartment of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences

Elliott AshAssociate Professor

Studies law, economics and politics with natural language processing, analysing judicial opinions, legislation and political speech.

Language & society
Multimodal & grounded language
Computational social science

2026Continuity and change in US legal tradition: Evidence from judicial citation communitiesPNAS
2026Can Reasoning Help Large Language Models Capture Human Annotator Disagreement?EACL

9 T1 · 23 papers · 13 members

USGeorgia TechSchool of Computer ScienceDec 15

Jacob AbernethyAssociate Professor

Studies the mathematics of machine learning and its links to game theory, online optimization, statistics and economics.

Learning theory & optimization
Reasoning & neuro-symbolic AI
Computational social science

2026CapuchinAI 1.0: Development of a machine learning-based touchscreen paradigm to test cognition in wild capuchinsAmerican Journal of Primatology. Published online July 28, . DOI: 10.1002/ajp.70194.
2026Multi-distribution learning: from worst-case optimality to lexicographic min-max optimalityInternational Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT ). Accepted.

6 T1 · 15 papers · 1 member · 11 alumni

USUSCComputer ScienceDec 15

Emilio FerraraProfessor of Computer Science and Communication

Studies computational social science, social media manipulation and misinformation with machine learning and network analysis.

Computational social science
Graph mining & networks
Language & society

2026Change is Hard: Consistent Player Behavior Across Games with Conflicting IncentivesCHI
2026Cross-Platform Narrative Prediction: Leveraging Platform-Invariant Discourse NetworksWWW

4 T1 · 23 papers · 19 members · 45 alumni

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Fan WuDistinguished Professor

Julian McAuleyProfessor

Alan RitterAssociate Professor

Zhenzhe ZhengProfessor

Yingcai WuProfessor

Xiaotie DengProfessor

Dong WangProfessor

Wynne HsuProvost's Chair Professor

Xiaofeng GaoTenured Professor

Dan JurafskyReynolds Professor in Humanities, Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science Stanford University

Manish RaghavanDrew Houston Career Development (2005) Professor; Assistant Professor

David JurgensAssociate Professor, EECS – Computer Science and Engineering; Associate Professor, School of Information

Hari SundaramProfessor

Markus BrillAssociate Professor of Computer Science

Walid MagdyProfessor

Ashton AndersonAssociate Professor

Tengjiao WangProfessor

Elliott AshAssociate Professor

Jacob AbernethyAssociate Professor

Emilio FerraraProfessor of Computer Science and Communication

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Other topics in Data Mining & Analytics

I want to research computational social science in anywhere.

Fan WuDistinguished Professor

Julian McAuleyProfessor

Alan RitterAssociate Professor

Zhenzhe ZhengProfessor

Yingcai WuProfessor

Xiaotie DengProfessor

Dong WangProfessor

Wynne HsuProvost's Chair Professor

Xiaofeng GaoTenured Professor

Dan JurafskyReynolds Professor in Humanities, Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science Stanford University

Manish RaghavanDrew Houston Career Development (2005) Professor; Assistant Professor

David JurgensAssociate Professor, EECS – Computer Science and Engineering; Associate Professor, School of Information

Hari SundaramProfessor

Markus BrillAssociate Professor of Computer Science

Walid MagdyProfessor

Ashton AndersonAssociate Professor

Tengjiao WangProfessor

Elliott AshAssociate Professor

Jacob AbernethyAssociate Professor

Emilio FerraraProfessor of Computer Science and Communication