Fred Morstatter

Fred Morstatter is a Research Assistant Professor at the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California. He serves as Principal Scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute and Associate Director for USC Data Science, bridging academia and applied research in AI ethics and social media analysis.

Research Interests include:

• Mitigating algorithmic bias in NLP systems
• Developing robust social media content analysis frameworks
• Creating hybrid human-machine forecasting models for geopolitical events
• Studying causal relationships in online-offline event dynamics
• Advancing crowdsourcing methodologies with ethical AI

Recent Article Trends examine:

• Temporal knowledge graph forecasting without explicit training data
• Gender bias quantification in named entity recognition
• Characterizing misinformation through network analysis
• Developing fair decision-making attribution mechanisms
• Mapping moral valence in crisis-related social media discourse

Student Supervision includes advising PhD candidates exploring:

• Implicit biases in LLMs
• Computational social science
• Hate speech detection
• Persuasion modeling in forecasting systems

Contact: fred@isi.edu | Google Scholar | USC ISI