Haewoon Kwak

Haewoon Kwak is an Associate Professor at Indiana University's Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, where he co-directs the Soda Lab research group. His work bridges network science, machine learning, and computational social science.

Kwak's research analyzes large-scale behavioral data to understand social phenomena across domains including news media, online gaming, and political discourse. His foundational 2010 paper 'What is Twitter, a social network or news media?' has been cited over 10,000 times.

His lab develops novel methodologies for studying digital communities and information diffusion. Recent work examines platform effects on social dynamics, misinformation patterns, and emergent collective behaviors.