Ashwin Rajadesingan

Ashwin Rajadesingan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. As a computational social scientist and design researcher, his work focuses on how online spaces can facilitate quality political discussions and contribute to deliberative democracy through the integration of computational methods and UX design.

• PhD in Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• MS in Computer Science, Arizona State University, Tempe
• BTech in Computer Science, VIT University, India

His research spans computational social science, social computing, and political communication, with publications in prestigious conferences like AAAI, ACM (ICWSM, CSCW, WSDM, WebSci). Notably, he has received top paper awards at ICWSM, WSDM, WebSci, and the 2025 ICA Computational Methods Section award. His work emphasizes improving cross-partisan interactions on social media platforms.

• Top Faculty paper award, 2025 ICA Computational Methods Section
• Best Paper award (honorable mention) at ACM WebSci 2025
• Top paper awards at ICWSM
• Top paper awards at WSDM

Ashwin Rajadesingan can be contacted via email at ashwin.rajadesingan@austin.utexas.edu. He is actively involved in the Computational Methods Division of the International Communication Association and collaborates with researchers studying political communication and computational approaches to social media.