Ryan L. Boyd

Ryan L. Boyd is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. His work bridges computational social science and natural language processing to explore how verbal behavior reflects psychological and social processes. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin (2017).

• Education: Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 2017

Key research domains include foundational psychological processes (motives, emotion, cognition), the relationship between personality and language, mental health applications (suicidality, substance use), and societal-level social dynamics. Boyd has developed open-source text analysis tools, notably contributing to the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software ecosystem. He serves on editorial boards for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Language and Computation and Frontiers in Social Psychology: Computational Social Science, as well as the advisory board for Psychology of Language and Communication.